Fall activities

It's been a busy fall and I haven't had as much time as I would like for my textile art. I'm practising some of my stamping to prepare for my playdate in January.  I'm leading a playdate on stamping for Out of the Box then.  Lately I've been printing leaves on fabric (before they disappear for winter) by putting paint on them and printing on fabric that I've prepainted.  I discovered that old dead wildflowers print well on fabric too.  Here are some photos.

First of all, my friend Suzanne Caron taught me how to make paper flowers out of old magazine pages so here's a photo of that:

 We were thinking of making a large number as a display for Fibre Fling this spring.

Here's a photo of printing of a leaf that I discovered at Mud Lake.  I'm not sure what species of tree it's from but I like the shape:

Here's a photo of a print I made putting paint on some dead flowers probably Queen Anne's Lace:

 

 The smoke bush in front of my house has beautiful leaves (still does now!) and they make nice prints.  Here's a photo of smoke bush leaves printed on a prepainted fabric background: