Leaf Printing Revisited

By: Lynda June 1, 2018August 10, 2018 eco printing, fabric, Fabric paint, Free-motionArtistic Artifacts Fluid Textile Paints, Eco Printing, featured, free motion, freemotion, leaf printing, tutorial15 Comments

As I mentioned earlier, I’ve been spending a lot of time weeding and mulching. When I finish weeding I take all of the weeds down to the bottom of our property which is a wooded area. On the edge of the “bottoms” are several sassafras trees. Every time I take loads down there I admire…

About

I started this fabric surface design journey in 2009 when I was writing my newspaper column, Telling Your Story, about local artists.

Tutorials

Check out the tutorials tab above. Since I started my website back in 2009 I’ve gone from paper crafts to dyeing. I hope you can get some inspiration from them.

Classes

There is no doubt that I love to teach.

Frixion Pens with Free Motion

By: Lynda December 10, 2018December 10, 2018

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I recently ran across a video by StitchesbyJulie where she used Frixion Pens with Free Motion. They are just what I’ve been looking for. Now I can draw on fabric and then erase it with the iron when I’m done.

Scrappy Scarf

By: Lynda November 29, 2018December 10, 2018

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Years ago I tried this scrappy scarf technique. Back then I had very little fabric and ended up using threads, ribbons, and yarns to make a small piece of fabric. Now that I have lots of fabric scraps, I wanted to make a regular size scarf! It starts with a water soluble stablizer (I used…

Seeing with new eyes

By: Lynda November 21, 2018November 29, 2018

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I decided this past weekend to go through my scrap container, and I was amazed at what was in there. There were pieces of my art journey from the very start – many that I had forgotten about. The majority of pieces in the container were either practice pieces for the final “glamour” shot, failed…

Spray Painting Layers

By: Lynda November 15, 2018November 21, 2018

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For my last class we are spray painting layers. I introduced spraying, but my main goal was to encourage and embrace layering. Sometimes it’s hard to push through to the next layer. Sometimes it doesn’t work out, but more often than not, you will like your results and you will learn from the process. I…

Class Time

By: Lynda November 9, 2018November 15, 2018

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I have been having so much fun preparing for and teaching my class, Art Sampler: An Introduction to Printing on Fabric. This is a five-session class at the University of Evansville. In each session students are learning something different. Unfortunately, since the class sessions are only 1.5 hours long, we have to rush to get…

Printing on Cotton Lawn

By: Lynda October 26, 2018November 9, 2018

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I must tell you that I had no idea how much I would love printing on cotton lawn! What is cotton lawn? It’s a wonderful, somewhat sheer cotton fabric that is softer than quilting cotton, but sews up just as easy! It is used for summer clothing. I saw a tutorial on Designmatterstv, where Laura…

Gel and Leaf Printing

By: Lynda October 14, 2018October 26, 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…