You may remember my post featuring this quilted flower, (see here), which was screen printed using Margaret Applin’s thermofax screens. Once printed, I heat-set it, and then with right sides together, faced it with batting, and another layer of fabric. I stitched around the perimeter, in the shape of the flower, (leaving an opening), trimmed my seams and corners, turned it right side out, …
“Hold on to your dreams, never let go, there’s a flame inside you burning with hope…” I dearly love music and again, and of course the actual song lyrics inspire me, too! This is some of my first ‘batch’ of hand-dyed fabric from last summer. And… I also used a piece of paper fabric that I wasn’t crazy about in …
This is what I began with. My first piece of shibori-styled, hand-dyed fabric, made in the glorious summer-hot days! These are the threads I chose to create Summer Shimmer: YLI threads in three styles: Candlelight, Pearl Crown Rayon, and Designer 6, all wonderful textures of thick threads from YLI. I also used GLITTER and Rainbows tri-lobal polyester from Superior Threads. …
Ahhh… Angelina – fibers, that is. Forget Angelina Jolie… these fibers are the real stars! Translucent, iridescent and beautiful combinations are yours for the making! Just a quick 5 seconds or so with an iron! Heat those fibers longer, and they will change to a darker color… which you may be after?! PRESTO! They bond to themselves, and you can …
I love playing with TEXTIVA film! It’s so pretty… and shiny … did I mention that it is so … shiny and pretty?!! And so many beautiful colors. Ethreal looking, sheer and semi-transparent… and fusible… but only to itself, or to it’s sister product – Angelina fibers. You can scrunch it, like the wrinkled piece above, on top of the …