As we end another year, I am again looking back on my best of 2018 tutorials. If you missed them, the links are at the top of each picture. I pretty much went wild with my spin art machine and turntable this year, and wrote several tutorials on using that machine. It was so much…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
Read MoreWelcome to my new website. As many of you know, I’ve been blogging since 2009 at BloomBakeCreate. I started the website to share my passions in gardening, baking, and art. Over the years I’ve done less gardening and baking to make way for my art. What has been fun about redoing the website is going…
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Let’s now change gears a bit and make spinner art using a turntable.
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I absolutely love playing with soy wax. Today we’re talking about using the Hasbro Spin-Art machine with soy wax and thickened dye.
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