Hello,

This week as been a full one.  I went to play day /work shops sort of things two day this week.  I printed with shaving cream at Turquoise street studio and now have a new pile of fabric to play with.  Then I went off to  a Figerative Art event were we all worked for the day on our own projects.  This shot is of the clutter on my table were I worked on my Creative Assistants all day long.    Marla showed these wonderful doll heads at lunch that day.  She will be  teaching her water color painting  techniques at Artist Doll and Teddy Bear Convention in Philly   at the end of April.   Check our her blog at : orsinisangels.blogspot.com      Its wonderful!     I am still struggling with the  new program so I do not have all the images I want to share but I have some.    I thought I

had it conquered yesterday- but the new things I wanted to add this morning are not going anywhere.   I will keep at it.

Progress Report:  Caramelized    I enjoyed working on this project.  I really used lots of different materializes on this one.  There is fused silk paper of course. Some fabric that I printed last year.     The light  orange pattern on the rust fabric shown here  with the gold silk on top.    I like the silk screen I used here so much I used it again this week in blues on a turquoise  background.

 

 

 The last technique  is   some painted tyveck that I placed between two sheets of parchment paper and melted with a hot iron.    I like how one   is never sure how it will melt and bubble.     There is also a little of silk Komona  that I got from Ginny in this work.

 

Scarp Happy 1

Way back in early  December  my big  sewing machine was out for repair.  So I got out Grandmother  Butter’s Feather weight.  With that I sewed up all my scarps and now I am  putting them together.   I use a sort of Roman strip for my block ( look in the tutorials to see the full process)  This one with the blue centers if the first.

 Scrap Happy 2 

This one with black and white patterned centers alternating with yellow and cream is the second.  I am working on the  next three using different colored centers and they will appear as I finish them.

 

Dry Falls Lichens I am to the fun part of this work now.  I am adding the lichens .  They are created by layering felt on the bottom with velvet on top and then a layer of nylon net on top of that.  With this sandwich pinned together I free motion circular patterns on top of all of it to bind it together.  I really enjoy doing this  step.

 New work  I made this simple layout for yet another bit of hand work.  I found some wonderful plastic shapes that I want to add to the surface by hand so this will serve as my base.

Keep Creating and I will keep struggling with the program.

Carol