Sunprints this week

I did a few sunprints the other day because the weather has still been warm and sunny and here are the results.  The one on the left I decided to overprint with the same plant (Queen Anne's Lace) and the one on the right is sunprinted with smoke bush leaves from my garden.  I'm thinking about projects to make with these.

More Sunprinting in August

In August my husband and I had some time at the family cottage near Bancroft, Ontario and I did some more sunprinting and fabric painting.   It was good weather for it.  Dry and sunny.  Not too windy.  Here's a photo of my fabric being painted on the table outside.  We have two horses with a piece of wood on it that we use for making things.

Here are some fabrics in the sun drying.  I experimented with painting some smaller squares to see how they turn out.

Here are some of my painted fat quarters hanging on the line at home.  I like to photograph my fabrics hanging on the washline because you can get a few at a time.

I did some resist painting with shibori on a juice can.  Here's the fabric on the can being painted. It's basically wrapped around the can or other object with lots of string.   It doesn't have to be in the sun but I put it there anyways to speed up drying.  I think the result would be similar if just left to dry overnight.   I taped the upper edge of the can so it wouldn't be sharp to touch.

Here are the two fabrics that I shibori painted (below).

Some more sunprinted fat quarters below. This year I avoided ferns and tried other leaves.  I picked leaves and plants that grow near the cottage.

Another set of sunprinted fat quarters below.  I like to sprinkle pickling salt around the leaves to get more texture.

I experimented with using doilies as resists instead of leaves below.

Here's a close up of a doily print.

While I'm painting fabric at the cottage my husband is painting soldiers.  Here he is assembling and painting an army of soldiers in the shed.  Thanks for stopping by!