I recently had an opportunity to trade a fabric postcard with a group who was participating in an online seminar through Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA). Names were drawn and people were paired for the trade. I had the good fortune to be paired with Samantha Boot, a fiber artist from the UK whose work […]
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Eucalyptus II done
I am pleased with how this piece has turned out. It took longer to complete than I anticipated, but that simply seems to be the new normal. During the process of threadpainting I planned to complete the quilting and then do all the hand work. However, after doing just a bit of the quilting I […]
Eucalyptus
Several months ago I met with friends to do some botanical printing and dye work and I shared results of that day here. I chose three of the eucalyptus silk prints to use with some cotton eco printed fabric that I purchased from Rita Summers to create a small art quilt. Both the cotton and […]
Botanical Printing and Natural Dye Part 2
If you missed my first installment sharing the results of a 4-day class on Botanical Printing and Natural Dye, just click here to be all caught up. A reminder that I am not showing everything I did in this class, just the pieces that I found the most exciting and that I can see using […]
Botanical Printing and Natural Dye Part 1
I spent four days in early July with Kristy Kun of Opulent Fibers and three classmates learning about the process of botanical printing and natural dyeing. Kristy spent the week before our class preparing the fabrics with mordant — a substance that prepares the fibers of the fabric to bond with natural dyes — and […]
