Working title: Weathered and Worn. The quilt is 30 x 50cms and will be my entry in One Red Thread 2018, an exhibition held in August as part of the Berry Quilting Retreat in Berry NSW. The others photos show the piece in progress. It’s made from old tea towels that were very worn & […]
36 Oceania members of SAQA have made a 12″ x 12″ quilt for the online SAQA benefit auction so we’ve decided to do a blog hop that documents how each person went about the creation of their quilt. The auction begins on September 16 and there are more than 430 quilts to bid for – many from very […]
This month’s colour for Roy G Biv (colours of the rainbow) is Blue. For links to more blue posts see Julie B Booth’s blog here & Jennifers’ blog here. My 1st 2 photos are hand printed fabrics, left: block printed with thickened Procion dye on a dye scraped background, right: Thermofax print on hand dyed cotton. Sky […]
Yesterday we did the draw for Lyric Kinard’s Blog Hop giveaway of her new DVD, Thermofax 101, and the lucky winner is Emma! A DVD,generously supplied by Lyric will shorty be on the way to Emma but if you didn’t win, you can order your own copy from Lyric here. I’ve been doing an online course: […]
If you’ve been interested in Thermofax printing, surface design, or just applying your own designs, drawings or photos onto fabric, but perhaps not sure how to go about it, then Thermofax 101 is the DVD for you! I think more experienced people will learn from it too. You can win your own copy – details […]
I haven’t had much time in the studio lately but today I did some thermofax printing. The design was done from a photocopy of a grevillea leaf from our garden. Note the thermofax screen is taped instead of having a white plastic frame. I didn’t like using these at first – it is easier to […]
The green fabric, above, is still in progress – I made 2 thermofax screens using a print from a rolled up piece of cardboard. The print below was designed from a photo of a palm tree trunk. When we were in Hobart, we visited the MONA (museum of old and new art) pics below. The […]
These prints are over the top of previous sample pieces, now I think they are usable fabrics with some depth from the layering. The small hand drawn circles were my first thermofax screen – still holding up well. The larger circles are more recent screens. Below: my print table cover – it’s starting to look […]
This is my quilt, Roses are Red… made for ‘Living Colour’ but not selected again (detail below) Oh well – try again next year! The main red fabric is wool, screen printed with thickened acid milling dyes. The print was from my charcoal drawing which I made into a photographic stencil. The rose leaves were printed […]
Much cooler today – to everyone’s relief, but we’ve had a couple of days 44 and 41C with our hottest night on record at over 29 minimum. A horrible bushfire in the Mundaring/ Parkerville area yesterday caused around 50 homes to be destroyed. We live in the hills too, so I really feel for the […]