First Embellisher Experiment

RBOG's, we must have an embellisher day! I tried it today--it's really fun and spontaneous! The top of the photo is my project, "Seashell" and the bottom of the photo is the inspiration photo. I used canvas and tear away stabilizer for the foundation, then fabric for the background with organza on top of it. I cut out a shell, felted it on to the background, then did some thread painting. After that I used some Inktense pencils and fabric pens for definition, then did some quilting and put an edge on the piece! Fini!

Mashed Potato Resist

"It was a mash, it was a monster mash." Actually, it was an RBOG day gone haywire. We thought we would try some mashed potato resist. I think Reva did a fine job cooking the Hungry Man potatoes, but the dye results were less than successful. I think the dye mix was the culprit. Not enough thickener and not enough saturation. Arghhh. Fortunately, we had bean soup for lunch followed by flan. Yum. Good company too. So, we made ugly fabric. Always an opportunity for over-dying.

"Bend Don't Break" (10"x16")

I thought I'd post my Fast Friday challenge piece here. The fabric was made at an RBOG discharge day. Yay - another piece emerges from the stash. The leaves are the kind that you purchase from the scrapbooking section of the craft store. The challenge was to incorporate transparency and either a high horizon or a low horizon. This is the first challenge piece I've done since (gasp) February.

Tiger Eyes

The "Tiger Eyes" project is finally complete. I really enjoyed the Tsukineko Ink process and I want to do more and more! We must schedule a meeting of the RBOGS!

Outrigger at Sunset

Here is my tsukeniko ink project.  Done!  Off to hang it this morning at the Rancho Buena Vista Gallery, so I needed a pic before it left home.  Can't wait for our next lab project.

Cistern

I am posting my Fast Friday quilt here since so much of the work was accomplished this week thanks to my lab partners, Reva & Laura.  The quilt image was Tuesday's drawing class assignment.  The whole cloth quilt fabric was created on Wednesday in the RBOG lab.  Without Laura's example, I never would have taken the time to hand stitch the fabric to yield the shibori design.  I painted over the dyed fabric with Tsukineko inks and bumped it with InkTense pencils.  What a productive day we had this week dyeing fabric.  Can't wait to see what else emerges from our new fabric.

An Apple A Day

        

 

  

All RBOGs have completed the apple project!  Yay!  This project was fun!  It seems even more fun, now that it is finished. :)

This little apple now hangs in my kitchen to remind me to eat my apple a day!

Cheers to good health!

Laura