Some time ago I made this piece of embroidered fabric paper and just haven’t had a chance up till now to do anything with it. So this weekend I took a little downtime, added some more free motion stitching to the surface of the fabric paper …
and then cut it up to make this beautiful little treasure chest.
I’ve just spent the last week playing around with one of my favorite techniques – fabric paper – but with a twist.
I just love the paper fabric technique because you can produce such beautiful surface texture and the piece can be as soft or rigid as you need. This time round I’ve been playing with adding some free motion embroidery and decorative stitches to the fabric paper before painting it.
Some of the results have not been so good which is annoying because it’s such a time consuming process, but I think I’ve finally found a process that works. I just love the results so far on this piece and can’t wait to finish it!
By the way, don’t forget to sign up for the new November mini-class at the Free Lunch Cafe – “Fabric Paper”. I’ll be sharing some of my favorite tips and techniques for making fabric paper.
How many times have you been caught out looking for the *perfect* embellishments to finish your project? Inkjet Shrinky Dinks to the rescue!!
Did you know that there are other types of stitches you can use when doing free motion quilting?
Do you ever use the decorative stitches on your machine? I know a lot of sewing machine owners – especially quilters – don’t use them. Your decorative stitches, with a little imagination and the right threads, offers great potential for interesting and innovative embellishment.
I love to use the decorative stitches on my sewing machine; they’re a wonderful source of decorative embellishment for all sorts of applications and you’ll see a lot of my quilts and samples have some sort of decorative stitching on them.
You can use decorative stitches in many ways:
… instead of straight stitch for stitch-in-the-ditch.
I recently blogged about this idea for a roller stamp . But then I thought … one just isn’t going to be enough, but it’s gonna get kind of expensive to purchase rolling pins in bulk; there must be a better way ….
And there is!
Making “fabric paper” is one of my favorite techniques, particularly for small collage pieces. I generally make these pieces with texture in mind so that I can use them as a base for adding free motion quilting or embroidery. “Scraps” is a good example of a finished art quilt using fabric paper as a background.
So this weekend I spent a little time out in the dye room making some fabric paper backgrounds for some little collage pieces I wanted to do and I thought I’d share the instructions.
During a recent visit to the craft store, I stumbled across this interesting product – Krylon Webbing Spray.
You hold the can about 12-18″ above the item to be sprayed which can be fabric, paper or other types of surfaces. You then sweep across the surface as you spray and it comes out of the can kind of like silly string. It then floats onto the surface and adheres and dries.
Way cool – and a great surface design technique. It’s kind of stiff when it dries, but you can sew over it. Fun!
Tyvek, when used for multi-media art purposes, comes in two different types:
The main feature of tyvek is its ability to create interesting texture when heat is applied. Heat can be applied by using either a warm iron or a heat tool. The resulting texture can range from mild puckering to burnt holes to total disintegration if too much heat is applied.
Fabric leaves are easy to make and are great embellishments for art quilts, wearable art and other creative projects.
This tutorial will demonstrate how to make a three dimensional leaf using two layers of fabric fused together with fusible webbing.
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