Surrey Branch - using dissolvable fabric!
Mar. 7th, 2010 11:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janecameronI've had the most FUN afternoon! Doing dissolvable fabric panels with my silk painting group!
It was so fun that when they all went home I carried on and have made a second panel and turned it into cards, and started a more intricate THIRD panel and it's all done bar the beading!
I have also sorted my "stuff" stash into colours, which will make it easier to do coordinating panels... hadn't realised quite how much I had until I got it out for them to have a play with ...
Have a taster picture!
This one isn't finished, but it's so fantastic I had to share it now! I need to finish beading the other poppies, and then wash off the dissolvable fabric, so it's not too far off... I've done at least 2-3 hours on it already ... argh! Oh well, it's great fun and is getting me used to using the sewing machine!
It has some quite complicated machining on it (see second picture below!) ... and also has quite a lot of hand painted silk on the lower layers. The poppies are made from merino wool tops.
This is the second one I did ... of course it's purple! This one doesn't have any silk in it ... but does have stars hand-sewn on in gold thread...
This one has been cut up and I will be making it into cards. They look fantastic! The photo doesn't do it justice - I have used quite a lot of gold and silver thread which doesn't show up.
It was so fun that when they all went home I carried on and have made a second panel and turned it into cards, and started a more intricate THIRD panel and it's all done bar the beading!
I have also sorted my "stuff" stash into colours, which will make it easier to do coordinating panels... hadn't realised quite how much I had until I got it out for them to have a play with ...
Have a taster picture!
This one isn't finished, but it's so fantastic I had to share it now! I need to finish beading the other poppies, and then wash off the dissolvable fabric, so it's not too far off... I've done at least 2-3 hours on it already ... argh! Oh well, it's great fun and is getting me used to using the sewing machine!
It has some quite complicated machining on it (see second picture below!) ... and also has quite a lot of hand painted silk on the lower layers. The poppies are made from merino wool tops.
This is the second one I did ... of course it's purple! This one doesn't have any silk in it ... but does have stars hand-sewn on in gold thread...
This one has been cut up and I will be making it into cards. They look fantastic! The photo doesn't do it justice - I have used quite a lot of gold and silver thread which doesn't show up.
