Batic / Batik

Last week I started a batic sample piece to do a groupe work to decorate my therapieroom for the Holyday Season.

To keep it simple I used different metal "cookie stecils ". To dip them in the soy wax pan I used wooden clothpegs.

After putting down the first layer of wax on white cotton fabric, I painted with very deluted fabric paint - to keep it simple again - starting with lemon yellow. Adding one layer of wax and color after another till I ended with dark blue.

Finally ironing out the wax between several sheets of newspaper.

Then dipping the piece in very hot water. Now it is still waiting for a final wash in the machine!

but looks shiny so far.

Letzte Woche begann ich mit einem Batikübungsstück, welches ich als Gemeinschaftsarbeit zur weihnachtlichen Dekoration meines Therapieraumes plane.

Um die ganze Arbeit einfach zuhalten benutzte ich verschiedene Sternförmige Guetzliförmchen, die ich mit Hilfe von hölzernen Wäscheklammern in Sojawachs tunkte und auf weissen BW-Popeline auftrug. Danach malte ich den Stoff mit stark verdünnter Textilfarbe hellgelb. Es folgten weitere Lagen Wachs und Farbe. Bis dunkelblau zum Schluss.

Nun folgte das Ausbügeln des Wachs zwischen mehreren Lagen Zeitungspapier und Auswaschen der Wachsrückstände mit heissem Wasser. Es wartet noch ein Waschgang in der Maschine.

Shibori Silk dyeing

Last week I did some silk-dyeing in Shibori technic. First I layed a base in a lighter color, after drying and ironing I roled the shawls around a pvc-pipe and bound them. After pushing the shawles together I painted the fabric with fullstrength silkpaint. Left it to dry and steam fixed it. After washing and ironing it looked gorgeous.
And....there are some more in the making.

Letzte Woche habe ich zwei Seidentücher in der Shiboritechnik gefärbt. Zuerst grundierte ich die Tücher in einer hellen Farbe. Nach dem Trocknen und Bügeln rollte und band ich die Schals um eine PVC-Röhre, schob den Stoff dabei nach und nach sehr eng zusammen.

Darauf bemalte ich die Seide mit konzentrierter Seidenfarbe. Auf das Trocknen und Auswickeln folgte das Dampffixieren der Farbe. Nach dem Waschen und Bügeln leuchteten die Tücher um die Wette!

Und das Beste... es sind noch weitere in Arbeit.

Screen Printing Class

At Quily University (quiltuniversity.com ) I am taking a screen printing class with Lyric Kinard.What I really enjoyed so far where the newspaperstencils to mask the screen. they stick well to the screen. I could hardly stopp myself from printing!




Zur Zeit nehme ich an einem Online-Siebdruckkurs mit Lyric Kinard bei Quilt University teil. Besonders gafällt mir das abdecken des Siebs mit Zeitungspapier. Zu meiner Überraschung ist es sehr dauerhaft während des Druckens. Beim Auswaschen des Siebs wird das temporäre Motiv dann zerstört. Gefiel mir so gut, dass ich kaum mit Drucken aufhören konnte!

Taking Inventory of the chosen 12 UFO's

6 garment pieces
- pink t-shirt
- multicolour t-shirt
- purple jacket
- blue pants
- black-red skirt
- lining of the brown-turquoise skirt

6 quilts
- red gray mini-quilt
- 4 "grases"quilts
- cosmea quilt

hope to be able to finish most of it!!

Tallgrass Prairie Studio: Joy In The New Year

Tallgrass Prairie Studio: Joy In The New Year

To get some new energy to finish some 12UfO's, quilts and garments, from the I do not know how many - I decided to take part in Jacquie's Challenge!

And while taking part, I fulfil one of my other gaols to start blogging regularly, once a week!

Machine Quilting

Last week I started out with a new projekt: improve my machinequilting skills.

For the sketchbook -challenge I not only do want to try surface design technics that are new to me, but also improve my quilting skills.

I started a new sketchbook and pasted in some of my doodleings from my agenda. I already did a few samples which I stappled in the book and started an collection of sample pads the will form a book later. I am not sure what the binding of this samplerbook is going to look like but I have got some ideas from books, I did in the past. I might make a box for the books too.
While sewing on the samples I got the idea to make a simple book cover for a fotoalbum as a present for my parents to bring along the next weekend.
Below you can see the back of the finished cover and then the front of the album. Tomorrow I am going back to a shop for a nice shell button to add a closure.

Clean up and Experiments

Last night I started to prepare the materials for a two day workshop this weekend. "Experimentale Sewing" is the theme. We are asked to bring Colette Wolffs book "The Art of Manipulating Fabric" along, if we got it and lots of different materials, not only textiles.

While searching through the basement with all the materials I came again across several UFO's and got sidetracked as you can see in my post, too.



Well I got most of it together now, decided to also pick-up some UFO's to finish them. I will add new technics to them, I intend or already started to explore.



First is this brown/beige something I started about a year ago, intended for my MIL's 80th birthday but then did the one below. I wanted her to have something really personal from me!



The colors are hers truly, not mine. But I see it as a challenge to change and add till I like it too and it is truly mine!

As you can see I started by adding a few strips, but that is not the (whole) solution yet! To be continued...