Printed Fabric Bee: Caribbean Ocean

This is the last month of The Printed Fabric Bee challenges. We’ve been doing this now for two years. It’s been so much fun and really helped me to stretch my creative muscles. This month Judy Gula requested a 12 x 12 inch piece about Caribbean Ocean. She gave us the option of our choice…

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Printed Fabric Bee/Giveaway: Sunflowers

November’s topic for The Printed Fabric Bee challenge was Sunflowers. Susan Purney Mark was the Queen Bee this past month and she requested in addition to sunflowers, a 6 x 24 piece of fabric in oranges, greens, and/or browns. We are again giving away a collection of 6 x 6 pieces. Information on the giveaway…

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Sun Printing: Textile Paint & Screen Printing Ink

This is an article I posted on the Fire blog in June. I thought I’d repeat it here in case some of you did not see it and are interested in my experiments with sun printing. I’ve done quite a bit of sun printing and am partial to a couple products (Setacolor Transparent and Dye-na-flow).…

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Art Nouveau Challenge

The Printed Fabric Bee challenge last month was creating a piece that screamed Art Nouveau. Well, I’ve always loved that style so this was extra fun for me to do.  Jackie Lams was the queen for April and chose this great topic. Here is the finished piece  (12 x 12) for her collection. So I…

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