Sun Dyeing Results Continued...

Here are a few more pieces from Sun Dyeing yesterday...

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Alder Leaves and Rock Salt on painted fabric...

They made a wonderful resist on this piece !

Tulip Lace Curtain on top of Pink painted fabric...

The BIG reveal...

It worked !

Lace curtain panel on red painted fabric...

This one will be great fun to quilt on !

Cheesecloth on top of blue & purple painted fabric...

The BIG reveal...

Cheesecloth may be my favorite resist on painted fabrics !

Plastic Snowflakes on top of blue painted fabric...

I created a saturated blue paint to get a good print

Blue Lace over the top of black painted fabric...

I use a lot of black & white fabrics.

This will be a great addition to the stash!

Black Paint covered with plastic cling wrap...

The cling wrap creates a wonderful texture.

This could be used as rocks or asphalt in a landscape quilt.

It also makes a great background for applique work, which I love.

I can also stencil on it with opaque paints...lots of options.

These are a few botanicals I found up in the timber last week:

Ferns, Sheep Sour, Queen Anne's Lace & Alder Leaves

I pressed them in a phone book to preserve them for a few days.

They were perfect for sun dyeing...

They are firmly pinned down to the foam core board to keep them flat against the painted fabric to encourage better printing.

This sun print is my favorite of the day...

" Nature Walk "

Paint Brushes & Trays clean and drying in the kitchen window

Now that the clean-up is all done...

I can heat-set the painted fabrics and begin planning a few new textile projects with them.......yummy !

Enjoying the sunshine here in western Oregon

LuAnn and Brad

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LuAnn

Sun Dyeing Results...

Never waste a sunny day in Western Oregon !

I pulled out the sun dyeing supplies...

Setacolor Textile Paints and lots of brushes...

Let's see where the day takes us...

Painted Fabrics drying in the sunshine...

This is a rug making grid on top of the wet paint...

This is what the fabric looks like after it has dried in the sunshine

The paints are sensitive to the sun.

The grid acted as a resist.

Fiddlehead Ferns on wet painted fabric...

Straight pins holding the ferns down firmly in place

The BIG Reveal...

The ferns left a very crisp and clear image

Plastic Cling Wrap on top of wet paint in the sunshine

The BIG Reveal...

Glad I tried the plastic....makes a great texture!

A curtain panel on top of the painted fabric...

Makes a great textured grid-like pattern

Queen Anne's Lace & Tansy Leaves

This one makes a rather 3-D image

I have lots more....but this post is getting way too long.

I will save the rest for another day...

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LuAnn

Wood Bark......for Printing on Fabric?

We quilters love texture!

Have you ever taken a look at the texture of tree bark?

Tree Bark

Lots of grainy texture on the inside and outside of the bark

I found this incredible bark with swirls of texture!

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Check out the cool textures on the inside of the tree bark

The texture is 3D with hills and valleys...

Which begs me to experiment with it for printing on fabric!

There are several ideas running through my mind right now...

Bark Textures

I brought enough home to do a few experiments with paints

But....now I better get back to work...

Wood Splitter

This is where I have been spending most of my time lately

Each morning we come up to the woodpile and split for a few hours

After 14 hours this is our pile:

Just think, If I hadn't been spending so much time splitting wood...

I never would have noticed the cool patterns and textures inside the tree bark!

Inspiration is everywhere.....just keep your eyes open.

I will post images of the Bark/Fabric Printing Experiment soon.

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LuAnn

Textile Painting.......Class Samples

I had time to squeeze out one more class sample for Saturday's class

I need something that I can use for my Machine Quilting Demo in class...

Fabric has been painted...

Now I am ready to audition border fabrics

I like the black/gray color in this border fabric...

Unlike the black and very white fabrics I usually use.

For some reason, this piece didn't like the stark whites & blacks.

It required more of the blackish gray shades.

I am listening...

So, I pulled out my stash of B & W:

I sorted out all of the very white & blacks...

Kept the black & gray fabrics...

The border treatment does not distract from the central focal point, and is still interesting.

I will use this piece in class to demo a few machine quilting tricks I have up my sleeves

Just so you know I don't do everything bold and over the top:

Here is my very subtle class sample of leaves

Yes, I can do subtle too!

Look what is growing out behind the Thread Shed

Hollyhocks

They are larger than life...

The STAR shaped center is so interesting

We are headed for a Farm Auction in the morning...

I need to hit the hay ~

Good Night...

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LuAnn