I had a bench-clearing day in the studio on Tuesday. There were things pending for the guild show.The red & white button sampler:
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My piece for the art quilters' challenge, Forms of a Dress. This challenge was my own idea and it took me way too long to come up with an idea for my own idea.
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A piece for the silent auction that I started -- gulp -- last year and didn't finish in time. It's been scowling at me from the workbench for about 10 months, but I knew it's time would come.
So those are all done and out of the house.
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| 12 x 18 inches |
My piece for the art quilters' challenge, Forms of a Dress. This challenge was my own idea and it took me way too long to come up with an idea for my own idea.
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| 10 x 14 inches |
A piece for the silent auction that I started -- gulp -- last year and didn't finish in time. It's been scowling at me from the workbench for about 10 months, but I knew it's time would come.
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| forgot to measure, maybe 15 x 18 |
On the weekend, I had the idea that the line work I've been doing in ink might be interesting on discharged black duck, so I had at it with the bleach. I don't do this very often and I forgot how fast liquid bleach can be, so I ended up with black stripes on orange panels, rather than t'other way around. So I added some Soft Scrub and left it overnight.
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Today is two-bin rubbish day...I think I'll consign a very large heap of paper, fabric, thread et cetera to the recycle bin.
I call this clearing my space!
I do a fair amount of "close your eyes and pitch it out" as well. Just not this week.
:-)
You're making good stuff. Will be interesting to see what you do with the rinse-out. Sometimes the best ideas come from that sort of unexpected result. Sometimes, I find, I can't even imagine what I want or need until I see it. No visionary, I!
Thanks, Laura.
Sometimes I can't imagine it even when I'm seeing it.
That foggy duck cloth is evoking not much of anything so far. Maybe I'll put it away so I can be surprised by it later. Sometimes surprise knocks something loose.
The dresses piece is so charming - they look as if they might be found on a character in Dick and Jane or in McCall's magazine ready for Betsy to put on. The bleached out cloth? Gorgeous.
You have been busy. I love the buttons with the stitches. The dresses are simply gorgeous. Look forward to seeing them -
Remind me to show you my t-shirts someday...hope to see you soon too.
Thanks, Barb. It's been so long since I worked with color, it took about three days to decide on the scraps for the dresses.
Denise,
I think I may bleach some more and then overdye. Or not. It's still early.
I think the discharge / bleach process created a great fabric. At first glance they look like ghost fence posts to me.
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