Time for a change....

Today I spent the day in the Thread Shed...

I emptied out cupboards...

I emptied out drawers...

Two cupboards were removed from the room...

One new cupboard was moved in...

I am busy sorting......

I am busy organizing...

I am creating a new working environment for myself...

It has been over 10 years since

I moved into the Thread Shed...

It's.......Time for a Change.

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CLICK HERE to view the Thread Shed

CLICK HERE to view my Portrait Quilts

CLICK HERE to view my Challenge Quilts

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Permission 2 Play.......Show 'n Tell

Permission 2 Play Students

Show Off

their latest textile art creations

Click Images to Enlarge:

Jan's Botanical Jello Printed Quilt

Julie's Collage of snippets fabric and metal

Detail View of Julie's quilt

Lois' Botanical Jello Printed Quilts

Marion's Melted Crayon Quilt

Julie's Botanical Jello Printed Quilt

Sandra's Botanical Jello Printed Trio Quilt

Julie's Botanical Jello Printed Quilt

Thank you Students....

Very fun Show 'n Tell

A BIG Thank You to

OSU Folk Thrift Store in Corvallis, Oregon.

We received a grant from them for $300 this year!

This will enable us to purchase needed supplies for our classes

and continue with this FREE class offering.

CLICK HERE to view Jello Printing Class

CLICK HERE to view Melted Metallic Crayon Printing Class

CLICK HERE: A Reason to Play

CLICK HERE: Mark Lipinski Interview

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Permission 2 Play........Portraits on Fabric Class

Welcome to Permission 2 Play

Portraits on Fabric Class

This is a free class offering for cancer diagnosed patients

No Experience is Required

All class supplies are provided for you

Everyone is welcome to join the fun!

Today we created portraits of flowers, birds & animals

on fabric.

You can view what the students created in the

slideshow below.

Slideshow Song:

House of Love

By Amy Grant

I chose this song because the quilt shop we hold classes in:

JanniLou Creations Quilt Shop

will always represent

a House of Love

to all who enter its doorway

Create a slideshow design

A special thank you to JLC for providing us with a beautiful classroom space to work.

Thank you to our students who fill the room with such positive energy!

Warm Hugs to our instructors who donate their time and talents to lead these classes.

Thank you to our community who supports this class offering in every way possible.

CLICK HERE to view P2P Jello Printing Class

CLICK HERE to view P2P Good Fortune Bird Class

CLICK HERE to view Healing Stitches Exhibit

CLICK HERE: A Reason to Play

CLICK HERE: Mark Lipinski Interview

Join us for our next class: July 28, 2011 1:00 at JLC

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Clean Up Cloth.......Sun Printing

My favorite part of working with Textile Paints

is creating

Clean Up Cloths

Click Image to Enlarge:

Clean Up Cloth

Stewart Gill Colourise Paint

Last week, at the end of a painting session, I put all of the

leftover paint on a white piece of fabric.

Sometimes I wet the white fabric first, and sometimes I don't.

This time I left the white fabric dry, then poured the leftover

paint all over it and scrunched up the fabric.

I also sprinkled a little kosher salt on top.

The secret is to put it out in the sun.

That is when the magic happens.

Allow it to completely dry.

When you open it up you have a lovely

batik-like fabric.

Press it with a hot iron to set the paint.

Stewart Gill offers an excellent line of textile paints.

However, so does Pebeo/Setacolors

and Dye-Na-Flow.

They all perform well for Sun Printing on Fabric.

I have no affiliation with these products.

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CLICK HERE to view Sunprinting

CLICK HERE to view Rust Dyeing

CLICK HERE to view Flour Paste Resist

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Screen Printing Play Day...

Virginia invited us over to her sun room

for a screen printing play day:

Virginia Screen Printing

Thickened Screen Printing Paste

Work Table for mixing up

Thickened Dye Paste

Dye

Virginia's piece is coming along nicely

Yellow Thickened Dye Paste

Blue Thickened Dye Paste

Virginia treated her screen with Elmer's Gel Glue

in a circular design to act as a resist during

the screen printing process

This has been screen printed and is covered in

plastic and ready to bach for 24 hours

Elmer's Gel Glue on a silk screen

acted as a resist

Flour Paste Silk Screen

Tree Image scratched into dried flour

Tree Screen Print

Covered in plastic...

I took my screen prints home and let them bach

for 24 hours...

This pieced has been washed & dried.

This was a white piece of fabric that I wrote on with a

tjanting tool and hot soy wax.

Then I screen printed blue thickened dye paste over it.

It was my first effort at soy wax, and I see that I should have

written slower to allow more soy wax to penetrate the fabric.

This is a good candidate for discharge techniques.

This piece has been washed and dried.

It is a commercial batik that I thermofax screen printed on

with orange thickened dye paste.

This is a white piece of fabric that I covered with yarns and

fibers to act as a resist.

Then I screen printed over the top with

blue thickened dye paste.

This is a good candidate for more surface design techniques

This is the blue circle fabric that I showed earlier while it

was on the work table covered in plastic.

It started out as a white fabric that was stamped with hot

soy wax with circles to act as a resist.

Then I screen printed over it with bright blue thickened dye paste.

Again, I can see that I should have allowed more soy wax

to penetrate the fabric to create a better resist.

This is a good candidate for discharge and further surface design

This pink piece has been washed and dried.

I applied soy wax to white fabric as a resist, then screen printed

over it with pink thickened dye paste

I needed a heavier application of soy wax.

This piece is a good candidate for discharge techniques.

This is a commercial batik that I thermofax screen

printed on with black thickened dye paste

The black dye could have been darker...

Next time I will know to add more dye to the thickened paste

to get the deep black color I desire.

My first experience with soy wax and thickened dye

screen printing taught me plenty.

I am anxious to try these techniques again with

the benefit of what I have learned.

I am satisfied with the fabrics I created.

I plan to do additional surface designs to them to enhance

the fabrics and create a layered depth of texture.

CLICK HERE:  to see My Quilts

CLICK HERE to view Sun Printing on Fabric

CLICK HERE to view Thermofax Screen Printing

CLICK HERE to view Textile Painting

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn