Permission 2 Play.......Jello Printing Class

The Permission 2 Play Group

Found their groove today.....

We played with Jello

Enjoy the Slideshow:

A digital slideshow by Smilebox

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CLICK HERE to view Neocolor II Class

CLICK HERE: A Reason to Play

CLICK HERE: Mark Lipinski Interview

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Pink Chalk Fabrics........Winner

Many Thanks to

Pink Chalk Fabrics !

They were a sponsor of the

Blogger's Quilt Festival

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The fabrics I won arrived in the mail today.

Pink Chalk Fabrics has such speedy delivery!

They also carry the coolest fabrics around.

CLICK HERE to see my winning entry

The wind and rain today covered the yard with

Flowering Cherry Blossoms...

From a distance...

the yard looks like pink snow.

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CLICK HERE to view Sun Dyeing

CLICK HERE to view Play Days

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Portrait Quilt........Completed

This Portrait is going under the needle today...

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I pulled out some of my favorite quilting threads:

Bottom Line by Superior Threads

Variations by YLI

The Thread Section of this blog

will explain more about these threads.

I have narrowed the thread choices down to these...

Bottom Line Black for her eyes.

Variations Teddy Brown for her hair.

Bottom Line Tan for her face and hands.

Robinson Anton 24 KT Gold Rayon

for the birds and flowers

YLI Variations Meadow Green for the background.

The portrait in the center of the quilt is sewn on top of the backing fabric.

It is not pieced into the green fabric.

I didn't want seams to distract from the thermofax printing on the green fabric.

To sew the portrait down on top of the green background,

I used a decorative stitch and green thread.

I am pleased with the quilting on the face...

I matched the thread colors as much as possible to the portrait.

From a distance the thread work is subtle.

As you get closer, you can appreciate the quilting stitches.

They create lots of texture and movement in the background.

I will finish this off with a Cord Bound Edge Treatment.

" Day Dreaming"

Portrait in Fabric

19 x 25 inches

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CLICK HERE to view the earlier work done on this portrait

CLICK HERE to view Learning to Fly Portrait

CLICK HERE to view Cord Bound Edge Treatment Tutorial

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Adventures in Mixed Media Quilts...

Many Thanks to JanniLou Creations Quilt Shop in Philomath Oregon for offering this Adventures in Art Quilting Series, and for their beautiful classroom space we worked in today.

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Lilly Portrait #2

This image inspires me...

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This image was altered in Photoshop Elements 4

then printed onto cotton sateen fabric

It was then colored and painted with

Neocolor II Watersoluble Crayons

and Inktense Pencils

Today I trimmed down the fabric portrait

and I am ready to audition border fabrics...

I recently created Thermofax Printed Fabrics.

I pulled out a few to see if they would work

with this portrait:

Pink Batik with white thermofax printed dots

I like it a lot...

Dark Blue Batik w/thermofax printed gold lines...

Way too dark

Brilliant Blue Batik w/thermofax printed gold lines

I like it, but the color is too intense

Green Batik w/thermofax printed coneflowers

I like these orange coneflowers,

but there isn't enough fabric for a border treatment

Green Batik w/thermofax printed birds

I also like these orange chickadees,

but there isn't enough for a border treatment either.

I left the piece for awhile just to get away from it...

When I came back I decided the soft green fabric with the orange thermofax prints went nicely with the hair and complexion of the portrait:

I pieced the two thermofax fabrics together

to create a big enough piece for the border treatment.

It is sandwiched together with batting and backing fabric

and ready to go under the needle...

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CLICK HERE to see this portrait completed

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CLICK HERE to view Learning to Fly Portrait

CLICK HERE to view Cord Bound Edge Tutorial

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Mixed Media.......Packing for Class

I spent today packing up supplies for the

Mixed Media Class

tomorrow...

These are some of the found objects that you will be

playing with tomorrow if you are enrolled in my

Mixed Media Class

With all of this inspiration here in front of me,

I couldn't help but start a new Mixed Media Quilt:

I will bring this along to class tomorrow and show you

how I attach everything to the quilted sandwich.

I hope to see You in class !

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CLICK HERE to view Mixed Media Class Information

CLICK HERE to view my Neocolor II Portrait Quilts

CLICK HERE to view Portrait Quilt Class Information

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Mixed Media.......New Class Sample

I recently stamped these tea bag papers

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Recycle Tea Bag Papers

I decided to use a few of them in a new

Mixed Media Class Sample Quilt:

Rust Fabric

This is a piece of fabric that was Rust Dyed

last summer.

It will be the foundation for this mixed media piece.

Auditioning a few tea bag papers

and metal embellishments...

The stamped tea bags show up nicely on the lightly rusted areas

Auditioning a few found papers

At this point...

all of the tea bag papers have been fastened down with

soft gel medium

Playing with the placement of the

metal leaf light switch cover

Not sure which orientation feels right

for the light switch cover...

This lay out seems balanced.

I will hand sew the metal embellishments on

after all of the machine quilting is completed.

Waxed Threads

I will bring this to class as a sample

and couch down these waxed threads.

I hope to see YOU in class !

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CLICK HERE to view Adventures in Portrait Quilts Class

CLICK HERE to view the Sunflowers Quilt

CLICK HERE to view Midnight in the Garden Challenge Quilt

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn