Eco printing in August

I hadn't done any eco printing since the workshop in June so when we had a cool spell earlier in August, I did quite a bit of eco printing on watercolour paper.  I bought a roast pan at Canadian Tire and got to work.  I collected some plants in the woods nearby and at a friend's place outside Ottawa.   I printed them on 90 lb and 140 lb watercolour paper.   Here are some photos of the results.

 This one is a Purple Aster plant.  Colours came out well.

This one is Wild Raspberry leaves.

 This is Wild Grape leaves on a branch.

more in August

Next I took a zen doodle and transferred it to fabric with a Sharpy marker.  I plan to add pink borders and continue the piece into the borders.  It took a lot of time to fill in all the details but it has potential I think.  It measures 18 X 24 inches so far.

August art

On the August long weekend I starting working on a few things.  First of all I took out my Rayna Gillman book called Create Your Own Free-Form Quilts.  In it she teaches how to cut up fabrics and sew them together into strips and then sew the units together into beautiful quilts.  There's something so freeing about just sewing together strips and seeing where it takes you.   I have a lot of my own hand painted fabrics so I cut up some of them and made a small quilt top.  Here is the result of that.  It measures 19 X 20 inches right now.