Article in Needle Pulling Thread Magazine

The Fibre Arts group I belong to Out-of-the-Box has an article in Needle Pulling Thread magazine this month!  This magazine is on newsstands in Canada and the United States.  Three ladies in the group Meredith, Garrie Bea and Rita wrote an article about our Summer Fibrations show at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum this summer.  There were several photos of our artwork. One of the pieces that I contributed is in the article with my name under it.   Here's a photo of the magazine cover this month:

Here's a photo of the article:

 And here's my piece on the bottom right hand corner of the page:

It's exciting to be in a magazine!  Thanks for having a look.

At the cottage continued

Here are some more photos of my artwork painted on cotton fabric this summer at the family cottage.

 This was the beginning of a shibori piece I wanted to make.  I started with painting it pale yellow.  The fabric is wound around the pipe with string and scrunched down. I let it dry afterwards.

 Here's the next stage where I painted on the blue colours.  I wanted to make a piece that looks like the sun shining on the lake here.

Here's the final product.  I'm happy with the result!  I don't know if I want to sell this one:)  Thanks for having a look!

At the cottage

So I spent a few weeks at the family cottage this summer and did quite a bit of artwork. In this post I'll show you my sun printing and stamping.  I decided to make smaller pieces of fabric this year instead of fat quarters I cut them in half and made fat eighths.  I will be selling some of these at Fibre Fling in April 2020.

Here I am painting fabric on the picnic table at the cottage.  I had to bend over quite a bit which I don't recommend.  It's better to work on a higher surface so you don't have to bend so much.  I had a sore back later.

 

Above you can see some of my fabrics in the sun printing.  I liked working with the smaller pieces of fabric.  That way I can have two pieces on one board.

Here are some sun printed and stamped fabrics afterwards.  I like sponging on the colours sometimes like in the top left fabric.

And here are some hanging on the washline after I removed the plants and salt.