Fibre Fling 4

On April 10-11 I will be showing my artwork at Fibre Fling 4 which is held every spring at Kitchissippi United Church. 

Here is a piece that I will have there in the colour challenge section.  It's for the green challenge and I've named it Hello Spring.  The background is a collage of green fabrics.  Then I machine quilted it over a piece of sheer material and put a silhouette of a blackbird made of black leather on top.  I machine embroidered the details on it.

more photos of Stamping playdate

Here's a photo of some stamps made of Magic stamps.  The foam is heated and pressed into the object you want to use.  You can see I made one out of rice, a pine branch, a necklace and a dried flower.

A student busy at work using her stamps.

I preserved the leaves we used in November using a glycerin and water mixture and freezing them.

Stamping playdate

On January 26th I taught a class to a group of  ladies from Out-of-the-Box on how to make their own stamps at the Kitchissippi United Church.  I showed them how to make stamps with leaves, food, found objects, styrofoam, fun foam, Magic stamps and carving rubber stamps.  It was a lot of fun showing them how to make the stamps and then print with textile paint on fabric and paper.  Here's a photo of me teaching.

Christmas cards

 Here are some Christmas cards that I made this year.  This first one is made of fabric and paper strips.

For this type I made a landscape out of paper and sewed the trees onto it.  Then I cut it up and glued the smaller bits onto cards.

I had a purple piece of quilted fabric collage.  I cut out the tree shape and glued it onto the card.  These were fun to make and they were all different which I like.

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:

Fibre Fest

I've been working on finishing my pieces for Fibre Fest in Almonte.  Fibre Fest is the weekend of September 13-14.  Here is a preview of the bowls I will have there and my finished business/credit card holders made of fabrics I stamped this summer at the cottage. Out-of-the-Box will have an area at Fibre Fest.

Sunprints and stamping

My husband Marc and I were at the family cottage in Bancroft, Ontario for two weeks and I spent a week doing some sunprinting and stamping pieces to be made into card holders.  I carved three new stamps and used those and I stamped using leaves of plants growing around the cottage.  Here are some photos.
 

The UV was quite high during that week so the leaves printed very well.  I first put some paint on the fabric and then lay on the leaves.  A bit of salt was sprinkled around them.

 

There are lots of ferns growing at our cottage so I made quite a few fern prints.

These leaves had some holes in them which made interesting prints.

Stamping with some of my newly carved stamps.  These will be made into business/credit card holders.

I carved a triangular stamp which can be moved around to create squares. 

I usually create quite a few pieces at the cottage in the summer because I can spread out my work outside in the sun and there's lots of inspiration around.