Fabric Paper......Play Day

Fabric-Paper......Play Day

My friends came over today and we had a wonderful day playing!

We made sheets of Fabric Paper...

It was so much fun.....it was hard to quit!

This is a muslin fabric foundation.

Newspaper print words are glued down on top of that.

Colored tissue paper is glued down as the final layer.

This is a muslin fabric foundation.

Torn pieces of a road map are glued on top.

Cheesecloth is glued down as the final layer.

You can see from this blurry photo just how cool the road map looks.

This is a commercial butterfly fabric.

Colored tissue paper was glued on top.

This is a commercial chicken fabric.

Clothing Pattern pieces are glued on top.

This is a commercial butterfly fabric.

Colored tissue paper is glued on top.

This is a commercial fabric with tissue paper glued on top.

This is a muslin fabric foundation.

A gold metallic fiber and a cranberry red yarn are glued on top.

White tissue paper was glued down as the final layer.

This is a muslin fabric foundation with paper words glued on top.

Then it was covered with cheesecloth.

Then colored tissue paper was glued down to everything.

This is a muslin fabric foundation.

Found papers are glued down.

Cheesecloth is glued on top.

Tulip Spray Paint was used for the yellow center and green borders.

I added stenciled leaves to this piece of fabric paper after it dried.

We are working from the book

Stitch Alchemy

By: Kelli Nina Perkins

We are making the

Good Fortune Birds

on Page 78

The bird shapes will be cut out of the fabric paper we created today!

I will keep you posted on our progress...

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

I'm Not Bossy......

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I'm Not Bossy.....I Just have Better Ideas

What sits next to your sewing machine?

This is what I keep close by my applique machine.

I couldn't do without any of it...

especially the big white CUP

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Pink Orange Gold Fabric Paper

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Sneak Peek

I wish I could show you more of my newest project...

but it is a secret until Monday.

I will post more images and tell you about it then!

Overnight Guests at Kessi Farms

These are my little party animals!

They came to spend the night with Annylu (short for Auntie LuLu)

Tea Party

Who is watching Who?

Not sure if the kids are watching the animals...

or it is the other way around?

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

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Fabric Paper and Freezing Weather...

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Fabric Paper

This piece is made with a muslin base, stained tea bag papers, newspaper print, white tissue paper on top.....and very watered down elmer's glue.

Not sure where I plan to go next with this piece.

Perhaps some walnut ink washed over the top?

Maybe some stamped images?

I am not ready to quilt it yet......it wants something more.

I am listening to it....

Fabric Paper

Muslin base, magazine papers, cheesecloth on top......held together with watery elmer's glue.

Textile Fabric paint.....Tulip spray paint green on edges to create a border and gold orange in the middle section.

I think I will stamp a big image of a bird next??

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Leaves in the flowerbeds at 23 degrees this morning

Frozen Leaves

As always, I have uploaded these images at high resolution.

Please feel free to use them in your artwork.

I would love to see what you do with them!

Frozen Cattle at 23 Degrees this morning

The calves saw Brad pull down the driveway with a load of hay.

They came to the fence here in front of the house to let us know they wanted some of that hay!

Frosty & Bright in Western Oregon

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

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Fabric Paper and Feeding Cattle...

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Spray Painted Fabric Paper

The fabric paper I made yesterday was dry enough to play with this morning.

I tried out Tulip Spray paints and was very happy with the results.

This will be a fun one to stitch!

Fabric Paper Cheesecloth

Spray Painted

Instead of white tissue paper over the top, I substituted cheesecloth.

I love the texture created by the cheesecloth.

This also took the Tulip Spray paint nicely.

The cheesecloth does not like to be rubber stamped.

Fabric Fibers & Cheesecloth

No paper in this piece...

Not sure how I will paint this one???

Fabric Paper Map & Cheesecloth

I plan to put a translucent wash of paint over this piece.

CLOSE UP view of Cheesecloth texture

Flowering Cherry Tree Leaves

Made time to rake up the very last of the leaves this afternoon.

They are wonderful mulch on all of the flowerbeds!

Feeding Cattle

Late in the day I jumped in the feed wagon with Brad to run down the road and feed the cattle. I made the best of the available light for these photos.

Round Bales

We make our own hay into 6 foot round bales.

No more handling small bales by hand....this is all tractor work.

Once the bale is pushed off the pick up, the metal bale feeder is rolled over and on top of the bale for feeding.

Loading more hay to take up river.

The tractor has bale spears on both ends.

Less trips from the barn to get hay.

The cattle have been fed.....time to get home and make dinner.

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May Your Barn Always Be Full of Hay,

LuAnn

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Fabric Paper.....Painted

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Lots of metallic textile gold paint applied to the upper portion of this piece.

I am thinking this needs some sunflowers and big leaves on it...

Pinky Orange with gold metallic applied over leaves as a resist.

Much better in person, just couldn't get a good images of this one.

Very Juicy Orange

Makes You Happy

Blue Green with Yellow spattered over top

Lavender with metallic gold washed over the top

Painted as a landscape with metallic paints

Heavier layer of paint to test the hand of the textile paints.

This Fabric Paper still remains fairly soft and pliable, more like fabric

Pinky Purple with green and gold washes over top

Again, a heavier coating of textile paint, not as watered down.

Experimenting to see just how soft this fabric paper will remain.

My goal is to keep it more like fabric for machine quilting later on.

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

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