Stitching the pieces together
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hey, thanks you two. Knitting is a good against stress. I thought the lymphedema would prevent me, but as long as I don't overdo, it is ok.
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My friend hooked me up with a new technique for fabric dyeing using sharpie markers and rubbing alcohol. This is new to me. They have tons of youtube videos so if you never heard of it, you can see it done on there. From the way it sounds, you can use almost any kinds of fabric. You can even do cards. I cant wait to try it!
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I want to go see this. Any clue what terms to search with?
Ginger
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Ginger the one I watched is called how to dye fabric with permanent markers. Its by designoriginals123 channel.
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ooooppps sorry ginger its not by design I did a typo. I meant to say its on, sorry!
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I tried that dying on a synthetic fabric and it is okay, but not as nice as I saw on the videos which was done on natural fabric.
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Well thats a bummer Meece. I have a bolt of muslin so I hope it works better on that. I finally am recovered from my cooties, so I get to play tonite.
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I completed the sewing of 7 crazy blocks this weekend. Seven more to go, then I can put them together and start embellishing.
Still haven't given up on the dying. They suggest the chisel tip pens and all I have are the small ones. That could be an issue. I will see if I can find the big ones in the colors I want.
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Do you prewash your fabric? I wonder if it would have and effect on the results. Being a sewer I always prewash, always. I live in fear of not having preshrunk some element and having the whole work go bad because of it. My home ec teacher put the fear in me for sure.
Meece, an art supply store should have individual chisel tips for sale.
Good luck, it sounds like fun. Maybe you can post some photos?
Ginger
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I always prewash but the fabric I was using is outdoor fabric and just acted differently.
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I always prewash as well. I think it just cuts and sews much better. I know that this is a hot button question at my guild group. Some say no way others say yes way.
Ok me and the sharpie project are gonna come to terms soon. I have found that alot of practice is in order. I found that trying to mark along the bias doesnt do well. If you spray too much alcohol, its not a good thing. Less is best it that area.The chisel markers do blend better. But if you want a more suttle bleed, the stop down in size of marker worked for me. The effects are different then I expected. But then again Im no expert, just haven some fun is all. My journal that Im putting together has just gotten more colorful for sure, lol.
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I'm a no prewash girl when it comes to quilting. I like the look after the item is done and washed and dried. It gives a more vintage look. I never use a poly batting for just that reason. I do prewash when making clothing.....
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I don't prewash as all of my stuff is "art". It hangs so much better on the wall and is easier to work with when a bit stiffer.
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I agree, Barbe, when it is a throw pilow or art, no need to prewash.
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I finally got all the fabric for my blue batik quilt (I went with white as background) as well as the quilt guild challenge quilt. The challenge quilt is to make a wall hanging that depicts a memory. There are size restrictions, no smaller than 16" square but no bigger than 40". We were given 3 fat 8ths that we are to use in the quilt and we can add 5 more fabrics to it. I found on-line the outline of the United States with the individual states but no writing on each state. I had the printer blow my 8.5 x 11" page to 200% on two large pieces of paper. Taped together it makes the overall size 20 x 16 and I will applique the fabrics on each state that I have visited (25 not including the capital and Canada). Right now I have the states I will applique cut out of freezer paper and ironed to the various fabrics. I am going to trace the design on white muslin with a pigma pen to show all the states but only the states I visited are colored. I will be embellishing with buttons, beads, and sea shells to mark the areas that I have visited, and my story to go with the wall hanging describes some of my memories growing up traveling to the different states. I think that it is a good way to depict my memories. I have to have this wall hanging done by the middle of June.
Sheila
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Sounds VERY cool Sheila!!!
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Sounds like a real intense project, Sheila.
I have been plugging away at my bed runner. I calculated 14 blocks and have 9 "complete". After the blocks are complete I will sew them together and then embellish. I have been picking up different sorts of embellishments.
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Momine - everyone wants a hat like that, looks so soft, lovethe colours.
Meese, the pillow is gorgeous, today I saw a Christmas tree wall plaque made from antique brooches and earrings, etc, so lovely, same vibe.
Chrissy, the quilt embroidery on page 1 was is extraordinarily beautiful, love the dragonfly. Wish I had time to look at all the pages tonight.
I like to paint on antique mirrors with 'holes' in the glass. I use the holes to be in the art. Don't have a pic now. But I also cut up artwork and frame in paned windows and on mirrors. Don't have one on this computer, and old computer died recently.
I write stories, love to write stories. Like Empty-nesting stories and such.... http://www.womens-fiction.com/category/empty-nesting/ and one of my favorites is Gracie, the Freezing Fake Ladybug at the bottom of that page.
Really need to get back to doing the things I love, it has been a long year. Thanks for being out here doing your thing.
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Sounds interesting, Essa.
I have a plan under construction for a wall hanging for Christmas. I was going to use costume jewelry as the decorations. My mother says she'll wait for me to complete mine before she starts hers. Maybe I can con her out of some extra jewelry.
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yeah, Meece, that was so beautiful sometime I will take a pic of it and can post, we go to that place often but had not noticed it before. My daughter when 12 had a costume jewelry business, we purchased at auctions and she sold at festivals and flea markets, she made more money than I did. But I ussed her leftovers to make pillows and deco purses and scarves, loved it, diaper bags, computer totes, so much prettier. later!
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Meece, Essa, your ideas are super. Picture a rhinestone wall hanging twinkling in the candle light.
Ginger
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I tend to win the red ribbons when I embellish a lot!! I like the wall art to change as you approach it and get into the details.
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Barbe I wish you would post more of your work. It sounds so cool. I like the idea of the work changing in appearance as you approach. I am really a technician so the artisitic ideas really intrigue me. Once in a felting class, before the needle felting craze, I made my daughter a very nice hat and purse with x's and o's felted into the interior of both. My classmates meanwhile were making wall hangings that looked like big globular mistakes to me. We were just totally on different wavelengths. I think I just dont understand the artistic process. I bought a bunch of brushes and paints last year and still have not used even one. I do enjoy looking at the though, they are nice looking brushes. lol
Ginger
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You are too funny, Ginger! I agree with you, I'd like to see more of barbe's work.
Barbe, in designing japanese gardens, it is favorable to have new views as you prgress in the garden. Never have the whole thing visible right away. And have the garden change as you get further into it. The gardens are a work of art.
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Hi Gals....I haven't read your whole thread from the beginning, but wondered if any of you have ever seen quilts made from the blocks of print and solid colors, with pictures of your families printed onto transfer paper, then mirror-imaged and ironed onto white squares ? Then stitched by hand over the colored blocks?
I saw a quilt once, entered into an art show, and thought "I can do that!" Well I finished quilts for my 2 Grandsons, with pictures of them as babies, then growing up, and finishing with batting, and fleece backings, then the satin edging.
I made one for "us".... With our wedding picture, pictures of the girls when they were babies, then onto the Grand-sons, my friends, and the most beautiful poem about "family" that I printed onto the transfer paper, and ironed onto the white blocks to "frame" the quilt..... The material washes well also, when hand-washed.... I quilted them all, and used lace to frame the one for us..... Ours is just pretty, folded and thrown across the top of the sofa.
I used to make cigar-box handbags also.... they were fun, but I finally sold them all.
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I've seen those quilts, and at one point had done some iron on pics on fabric but when I was doing it, the iron on made the fabric very stiff and difficult to get a hand needle through. Has there been advances in this area? It's been 12-14 years since I tried.
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Yahoo I finished my first quilt!! Mind you it was a babydoll size, but I finally did a quilt. I was just starting out when the BC hit and treatment really did a number on me, so I never really got in my sewing room until last month. I had to really take it slow on the binging part. Thats what I really was most terrified of. Once I chilled out and did what the video showed, it was smooth sailing from there. I still have alot of learning, but at least Im progressing. On to another babydoll quilt tonight!
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Meece! I left a little border on the outside of the squares that I printed.... I then hand-stitched them to the squares and then scattered them around the "quilt".... And sewing them together by machine.
It wasn't actually a quilt until I batted it. You can print "mirror image" with your favorite poems or sayings also...onto the squares. I always used white squares to iron the picture on. (And left that 1/4" border around the picture)
It's just a nice "memory" piece to make someone!
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If you want to put a picture onto your fabric, you can now either treat your fabric to take the printer ink from a bubble jet printer (not laser) or buy the fabric aleady treated and ready to print in A4 size. Once printed let dry over night, iron, rinse and iron and then sew. It becomes permanent once dry and ironed. That's what I used to make my niece a memory quilt. I think I posted a pic of it way back on this thread. but I'll post it again so you can see.
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Thanks for the helpful hints Crissy and Chevyboy.
Congratulations, Paula. Soon you'll need to attend Quilters anonymous.
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