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Gel and Leaf Printing

By: Lynda October 14, 2018October 14, 2018

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As I mentioned in the last post, I’m getting ready for my upcoming class where two of the techniques I’ll be teaching include gel and leaf printing. While making some samples I thought I’d add them together.

Preparing for class

By: Lynda October 6, 2018October 14, 2018

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I know it’s been a bit quiet here, but in addition to lots of other stuff, I’ve been preparing for my class. It’s called Art Sampler: An introduction to printing on fabric. The class includes five-sessions from October 17 through November 14 and is offered through the University of Evansville (my alma mater) Continuing Learning…

Blogger’s Quilt Festival – Spin Out

By: Lynda September 22, 2018October 6, 2018

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Amy of Amy’s Creative Side is hosting the Blogger’s Quilt Festival. Bloggers can share up to two quilts by writing a new blog post for each quilt and linking to the festival link party. This is my very first time to enter. Most of the quilts are traditional, but as Amy said, there are no restrictions and…

Paducah Quilt Week

By: Lynda September 17, 2018September 17, 2018

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Last week, I took off a couple days and drove down to the Paducah Quilt Week. In addition to looking at all of the beautiful quilts and talking to vendors, I took two classes from Susie Monday. Before I show you some of my favorites of the quilts, I wanted to tell you about my…

How to: Dendritic Mono Printing

By: Lynda September 6, 2018September 22, 2018

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I happened across Dendritic mono printing on paper awhile back and decided to try it on fabric. If you’re not familiar with the word dendritic, it means having a branched form resembling a tree. This is really an easy technique that provides backgrounds that look like branches. Here is how it’s done. I start with…

Welcome Ally!

By: Lynda September 1, 2018September 1, 2018

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As most of you know, we lost our dear sweet Ace in June while on vacation. It was such a shock to us with him being just 6 years old and healthy. I wasn’t sure I wanted another kitty, but we’ve been talking about looking for a new member of our family. Then Tuesday, while…

How to: Flour Resist with Paint

By: Lynda August 30, 2018September 6, 2018

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In this post I’m talking about flour resist with paint. Most of the steps are the same as with dye except there is no fabric prep. Please check out this post for step-by-step instructions. Add a little water to your fabric paint. After crunching the dry flour paste covered fabric, paint over it. Here is…

How To: Flour Resist with Dye

By: Lynda August 26, 2018August 31, 2018

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While cleaning up the website I ran across an old post on oatmeal resist. I wasn’t real happy with the results, but wanted to try again using flour resist with dye.

Struggles and Successes

By: Lynda August 18, 2018August 26, 2018

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Years ago when I first started blogging at BloomBakeCreate, I ran into a woman, Rhonda, at our local Joann’s. She recognized me from the blog and told me how much she loved the website, and how everything I did turned out great. I was quick to tell her that she didn’t see all of the…

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