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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
discharged fabrics
Here are some pictures of fabric I discharged last week during Carol's class. For the first one a doormat was placed under the fabric - which was blue Kona - and than I used a foam roller to apply thickened thiox over it.
For both other pieces binder clips and rubber bands were used. The difference in pattern is because I fanfolded the fabric in a different way and probably placed the binder clips in a different fashion. The next step was to immerse the fabric into a thiox bath. Handdyed fabric discharged way quicker than commercial fabric does. After this bath I used different colors of Procion mx dyes.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
ProChem
The last couple of weeks I had no time to blog, because I was here:
This is the building in which ProChem has its offices and gives workshops. I was there to take 2 5-days classes with Carol Soderlund. The coming days I'll post pictures of some of the fabric I created there, but first I have to iron it. Stay tuned.
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009
lino cutting
With a group of friends I am taking Dijanne Cevaal's lino cutting class. On this picture you can see my first result. It is a positive/negative cutting of a poppy leaf. As lino I used the very soft Adigraf. This material is only 3 mm deep, so I have to be careful that I don't cut too deep. The big advantage of this material is that it is so easy to cut. I have one more sheet of it, so if I have enough time later this week I can show you another cutting.
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Sunday, September 06, 2009
Discharged fabric continued
Two weeks ago I showed you the discharged fabric. Initial discharge was done with bleach and for the text I used discharge paste. Here is a detail picture of it:
I decided to keep the quilting as simple as possible, only a stitching around all the individual characters with a rusty/brown colored thread. I used this fabric to create a quilt for the Dream challenge. My initial idea was way to complicated to finish in the set time. In other words I am working on too many things to get this done in time :-), but this is a good substitute.
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
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