I Smell Something Burning...

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Clean-Up Cloth Drying

There is always lots of leftover watered down paint from creating Fabric Paper

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Clean Up Cloth Rinsed, Dried & Ironed

I love the unpredictability of clean up cloths.

Just like a box of chocolates.....you never know what you're gonna get!

Clean Up Cloth Pink & Gold made Orange

Be sure to crunch the fabric up good, that creates the crevices where paint can settle into during the drying process....creating the batik marbled appearance.

Clean Up Cloth Blue Red Gold

This is my favorite one so far...

I could never duplicate this again, it was just luck to get this!

Clean Up Cloth Pink & Gold

I had way too much fabric paint on a piece I was painting, so I took a hunk of muslin and laid it on top to absorb some of the excess paint.....it made a cool piece of fabric.

I wish you could see how this shimmers...I had a shimmery glittery paint mixed in with the fabric paint and it is so sparkly.....doesn't show in the photos.

Clean Up Cloth Orange & Gold

Clean Up Cloth Red & Gold

Clean Up Cloth Green & Brown

I wasn't paying attention when I was painting fabric...I grabbed acrylic paint instead of the textile fabric paints I was using........I guess the color looked good.

When it dried, it was rather stiff....not soft and nice like the textile paint cloths.

This green cloth would work for a journal cover project.

Clean Up Cloth Purple & Gold

Again, I grabbed acrylic paint instead of the textile paint.

I was happy with the colors.

I was also in a hurry and decided to dry this piece in the microwave...

I read somewhere that you could dry it for 1 minute in the microwave...

So I did...

It wasn't long before I smelled something BURNING!

Clean Up Cloth.....Burned

Like I have told you before.....everything around here is one BIG experiment.

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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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Images in Autumn...

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Clean-Up Cloth

There is always leftover paint when I paint on fabric paper.

It is all over the plastic drop cloth I am working on, so I soak it up with a muslin rag.

Then I take all the leftover watered down paints and pour them on the rag.

Leave them overnight to dry.......and you have a gorgeous clean up cloth.

See my previous post HERE

Cattle in Autumn

Western Oregon

I went up river with my favorite guy yesterday to check on the fence.

The lighting was just perfect for some camera work.

Cattle

The cows are always so curious when I get the camera out.

They make it too easy to take great images of them!

Creek in the

Western Oregon Coastal Mountain Range

We were checking the fence along the creek.

Lots of salmon spawning this time of year.

Click the image to see the red salmon in the creek.

It is amazing how far they come up river each year to spawn.

The autumn found us putting in the winter's heat supply

It was 27 degrees when I woke up this morning!

I think we have left autumn behind us...

May Your Woodshed Always Be Full,

LuAnn

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Rusted Fabric.........Weaving

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Woven Rust & Batik Fabrics

I am experimenting with a little weaving.

If I like it, I might add it to my Rust Tex Challenge Quilt...

Rusted Fabric

Batik Fabric

Cutting 1/2 inch strips

Weaving Strips

Lay out all of the vertical rusted strips and pin them at the top and bottom.

Then begin weaving the brown batik strips being sure to pin down on each side.

I am thinking I may use this as a border treatment, so I need to keep it as square as possible.

A smaller iron works well to fuse down the weaving to the layer of fusible web underneath.

Music to Weave By...

This is some of the most relaxing music I listen to:

American Song Book by Rod Stewart

A New Standard by Steve Tyrell

You can listen HERE

Trimming down the woven strips.

I will leave the fusible paper backing on until I know exactly what I will do with this piece.

Woven strips

The colors work with the rusted photo transfer image...

I won't know if this is working until I get more up on the design wall.

I have some more weaving to do...

You can see more Rust Dyeing HERE

Kathi taught me to Rust Dye... check out her work HERE

Gunnr

Somebody is tired of weaving and ready to leave the Thread Shed and call it a night

May You Always have a Dog in your Thread Shed,

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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Pink Glove Dance....

The video was made at Providence St Vincent Hosp, Portland, Oregon. When the video gets 1 million hits, Medline (maker of the Pink gloves) will be making a contribution to the hospital, as well as offering free mammograms for the community. Please check it out. It's an easy and great way to donate to a wonderful cause, and who hasn't been touched by breast cancer?

Pies Cooling in the Window...

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Today found me baking pies for the big turkey dinner tomorrow.

Baking is almost as much fun as playing with textiles~

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

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