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Moving Blogs

23 Dec 09 | Posted in Special Notices

I’m in the process of reorganizing my websites and this involves moving my blog here on the Creative Textile and Quilting Arts website to my blog over at Linda-Matthews.com. I’m not sure if I’ll move all the blog posts over there just yet, but that’s where all the action will happen from now on.
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Fabric Art Necklace

17 Dec 09 | Posted in Digital Grounds, Image Transfer, Inkjet Printing

It’s not often I can find time to sew for myself but I took a little time today to play around some more with digital grounds and ended up with this lovely necklace – just the thing to dress up a plain dress or jacket. I printed on a piece of fabric paper I had ... Read More

Chris Predd: Playing with Spray-On Fabric Dyes

10 Dec 09 | Posted in Christine Predd, Guest Bloggers, Inspiration

Continuing my special presentation of articles submitted by my guest bloggers.
Playing with Spray-On Fabric Dyes
by guest blogger Christine Predd (originally published 15 June 2009)
Several days ago I purchased some spray on fabric dyes at Hobby Lobby . . . I think they were sold for tie-dye projects, althogh I was planning to use them to ... Read More

Digital Grounds Hearts Organza

08 Dec 09 | Posted in Digital Grounds, Image Transfer, Inkjet Printing, Sheers

If you love printing on organza and thought that this was the best result you could get, then you are simply going to love this news … you can print even better images on organza, with 100% transparency, by using a clear tar gel acrylic skin as a backing.
I first heard about using clear tar ... Read More

Digital Grounds: All Cracked Up

05 Dec 09 | Posted in Digital Grounds, Image Transfer, Inkjet Printing

I’ve been puting some strange stuff through the printer these last few weeks. This one is crackle paste on fabric. I really like both the crackle effect and the results of the image print. Crackle paste of course is usually used in mixed media applications, but I found it worked just as well on fabric. ... Read More

I'm Linda Matthews and welcome to my website. As a textile artist I love to experiment with all sorts of different textile and art quilting techniques; and as I teacher I love to share. I hope you enjoy my website. More ...