This left me to my own devices so I decided to have a sort through one of my cupboards to see what was hiding at the back.
First find was some pastel dyesticks and skeleton leaves, so I made some rubbings onto a piece of dyed cotton, added some batting, machine stitching ,metallic paint and voila a quiltie or postcard or ATCS, not sure which.
I really need to practise more with my machine stitching, suspect I try to stitch too fast sometimes.I then found some old dyes that a fellow student had given me maybe 5 years ago. Rather than throw them out, I used them for some plastic bag dying for use as backgrounds and discovered that the brown dye did not work at all.
Most of the results were quite pale but I am sure that they will get used sooner or later
The silk fabric picked up the colours as lovely pastels
The only problem is that my room is even more of a mess now.!!
4 comments:
The leaves are beautiful and such a great idea to rub over the leaves.Have you seen the book " The painted Quilt" by the Kemshalls, they do the quilting and then rub over markal sticks, or bleach to remove the colour, but I shall have a go at your method it looks lovely, Happy Easter Pippa
Funny you should say that, although I have been using this method for a while now I have just bought the book and looking forward to playing some more!! suspect I need to live to be 159 to do all I want to do.
This is gorgeous. I have one paintstick here but up to now my trials with it have been disastrous. This gives me new courage
Thank you for your comment on my blog. I spent a good moment visiting your blog. Your creations are very pretty and very interesting. I'll put your blog in my favourites to go to see it each week.
Laurence
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