I've been working on pieces mounted on canvas and Leap of Faith is one of them. I described how I designed the original image in my post: Saturday's Source: Leap of Faith. This time, I printed out the image on fabric and then made a mini-quilt with it. I did the quilting on my new sewing machine, a Pfaff.
This is Princess. No, that's not the model - it's what I named her. I still have my old sewing machine that I've had since 1978, and it's a Viking. So the two machines are known as the Viking and the Princess.
I was trying out one of Princess's fancy stitches around the edge of the quilt. Once the quilting was done, I used glue to mount the mini-quilt onto an 8"x10" canvas.
I painted the edges of the canvas with black acrylic paint. After the quilt was mounted, I coated it with Mod Podge (like white glue) to give it a protective finish.
4 comments:
Lovely! You ARE having fun!
Wow! What a great project!
New sewing machine? Printing on fabric? I am curious about the fabric printing.
Beautiful work, Jean!
Just beautiful! I love it.
Thanks for your comments!
@Lee - I print on fabric sheets that go through my inkjet printer. I've bought them from Dick Blick. Here's a link to the page in their catalog: http://www.dickblick.com/products/jacquard-cotton-and-silk-inkjet-fabric-kit/ The printer sheets come in both silk and cotton.
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