Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Numbers 24, 25, and 26

PROJECT:  Create 88 - 8" x 8" Canvases

PARAMETERS:  Fiber Art (including textiles, fabrics, gauze, cheesecloth, yarn, thread, embroidery floss, wool roving, and paper), mounted on 8" x 8" canvases.

GOAL:  Create hardcover book, showcasing this art.

A friend, Cora Mae, gave me some Shibori fabrics she had dyed.  I decided to use three cuts from the beautiful fabrics for today's pieces.
Cora Mae's Shibori Fabrics
#24 - The first picture is the cut piece of fabric:
Fabric used in #24
I saw a flower in this image.  I used a white POSCA paint pen to lighten the "petals."  Then I added extensive machine stitching.  I cropped the piece before adding the blanket stitch around the edges.
#24 - 8" x 8" canvas
#25 - the cut fabric:
Fabric used in #25
This time I envisioned a landscape.  First, I fused on a couple extra pieces of fabric near the bottom of the image.  Again, I used extensive machine stitching.
#25 - 8" x 8" canvas
#26 - I stared at this next fabric for a long time.
Fabric used in #26
In the end, I decided I couldn't really improve on the design.  (It's rotated a quarter turn in the next image.)  Like the others, this fabric was mounted on stiff interfacing.  After cropping, I added the blanket stitch around the edges, and called it good enough!
#26 - 8" x 8" canvas
Till next time...

Monday, February 10, 2020

Numbers 21, 22, and 23

PROJECT:  Create 88 - 8" x 8" Canvases

PARAMETERS:  Fiber Art (including textiles, fabrics, gauze, cheesecloth, yarn, thread, embroidery floss, wool roving, and paper), mounted on 8" x 8" canvases.

GOAL:  Create hardcover book, showcasing this art.

When I shop for fabric at the thrift stores, I look for blouses with lace, texture, or interesting patterns.  Today's three pieces make use of some of this fabric.
#21:
#21 - Lacy Fabric
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#21 - The lacy fabric spread out to show the detail
Here's the other fabric I used:
#21 - Second fabric
#21:  I used the first fabric for the flowers, and the second fabric for the vase.  The background is a piece of silk painted with black acrylic ink.  (The three, 4-petal flowers came from another blouse.)
#21 - 8" x 8" canvas
#22:  Most of the fabric for #22 came from the front of a sheer, flowered blouse, that had both lace trim and pleats.
Fabric used in #22
Thread painting and machine stitching with my Pfaff added flowers and other detail.  And here's the finished piece:
#22 - 8" x 8" canvas
Maybe you can see that I used some of the pleated fabric across the bottom of the piece?  I love texture!
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#23 started with a piece of crepe de chine I had painted with acrylic inks.  
#23 - Inked crepe de chine
I thought the ball of yarn would work well with this piece - which is why it's in the picture - but then I ended up not using the yarn.  Instead, I stitched on a piece of inked cheesecloth:
#23 - Inked fabric with cheesecloth
Not sure where to go with this one, I cut out circles from another blouse.  Though I'm not thrilled with this piece, I declared it finished!
#23 - 8" x 8" canvas
Till next time...

Monday, February 3, 2020

Numbers 18, 19, and 20

PROJECT:  Create 88 - 8" x 8" Canvases

PARAMETERS:  Fiber Art (including textiles, fabrics, gauze, cheesecloth, yarn, thread, embroidery floss, wool roving, and paper), mounted on 8" x 8" canvases.

GOAL:  Create hardcover book, showcasing this art.

# 18
# 18 - This piece started with needle felting wool roving.  I loved the colors, even though the wool makes a blurry-looking picture.
#18 - A detail from the stitched piece
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#18 - 8" x 8" canvas
Above is the finished piece - stitched, and mounted on an 8" x 8" canvas.
#19
#19 also started with needle felting.  I was envisioning a beach scene with a palm tree.
Fabric cut from a thrift store blouse
This brown fabric provided the trunk for the palm tree.
#19
I used cheese cloth, dyed with acrylic inks, for the beach sand.  White gauze formed the sea foam.  Once I had the tree trunk in place, I couched on green yarn for the palm fronds.
#19 - 8" x 8" canvas
#19 - Stitched, and mounted on an 8" x 8" canvas.
# 20 - Detail
I had colored some white lace from a thrift store blouse, using acrylic inks.  There's also some inked cheese cloth in the "hill."
#20 - Detail
#20 - The finished piece, mounted on an 8" x 8" canvas:
#20 - 8" x 8" canvas
Till next time...