Just a reminder that if you haven’t yet signed up for the November mini-class at the Free Lunch Cafe, this month we’ll be working with techniques for making fabric paper.
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I’ve shown this video before, however it’s worth showing again. Particularly, note about 7 minutes into the video where he shows how he stitches his quilts – just beautiful.
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Today is cleaning day in the sewing room. I generally clean up after each large project, the latest of course being all the samples I’ve been printing using digital grounds.
So what does my sewing room look like after a printing frenzy?
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Imagination – One of the Seven Keys to Unlocking Your Unique Creative Potential
by By Maureen E. Killoran
I have heard people say ‘I just do not have a good enough imagination’, as if it were an inborn trait. Many people get stuck thinking you are either born with it or you are not. Some times it is just a matter of learning how to develop your imagination, and allowing it to flourish and grow.
Giving the seeds of imagination, the necessary ingredients to grow will help also grow your creativity and this is sure to increase your self esteem.
Journal writing, and day dreaming, visualizing and listening to new music with no words: great ways to develop the skills you need to add depth to your unlimited potential.
It is a matter of getting out of the way, and allow your self to be in all parts of your imagination. Just like anything else that grows there will be parts that do not seem useful, yet they help to sustain some area of growth potential that will deliver fruits to the imagination process.
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Digital Grounds: Testing on Lutrador
22 Oct | Posted in Digital Grounds, Image Transfer, Inkjet Printing | By LindaMWant to learn more about using Digital Grounds on fabric? Then check out my DVD Exploring Digital Grounds on Fabric
Some of you have asked how Digital Grounds works with non-woven materials like tyvek and lutrador. Today let’s look at Lutrador.
I like using lutrador for certain applications; much for the same reasons that I like to use dryer sheets. They both have a beautiful web-like texture. Lutrador of course is stiffer than a dryer sheet, and a dryer sheet is softer but with a luminous quality. So both have different qualities but share the web-like texture which I really like.
So how does lutrador perform in the printer with digital grounds?
Judge for yourself …
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I’ve recently added a new page over at the Free Lunch Cafe. It’s a “Member’s Blog” page where I add a reciprocal linkback to your blog or website when you slap a Free Lunch Cafe badge on your website. Most websites don’t usually do this, but I think it’s a great idea.
If you’d like a linkback to your website, simply
- grab a Free Lunch Cafe Badge
- Add it to your website or blog
- Email me and let me know
and I’ll add your link to the Member’s Page.
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Want to learn more about using Digital Grounds on fabric? Now available on DVD – Exploring Digital Grounds on Fabric
I recently published a post about water testing using Digital Grounds which answered a few questions about water resistance when using Digital Grounds.
But just to clarify further, Digital Grounds is intended to be used for printing images on fabric that will be used for artwork – stuff that hangs on the wall or wherever else you hang your art and which will never require washing. It isn’t intended to be used for making memory quilts or other types of quilts that require washing.
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“Decorative Stitch Art Lace” Book Wrap
18 Oct | Posted in Decorative Stitches, Tutorials, Water Soluble Stabilizer | By LindaM
Book Wraps are great projects to make either for yourself or to give as gifts. They are easy to make and offer the perfect opportunity to express your creative self through your use of embellishment.
This project demonstrates a technique for making fabric using Decorative Stitch “Art Lace”, and then using the resulting fabric to make a Book Wrap.
Decorative Stitch “Art Lace” is made by sewing overlapping rows of decorative stitches onto a piece of water soluble stabilizer. The soft lace pieces are intended to appear haphazardly sewn with stitches gently falling away to reveal irregular shaped holes and stitch clusters, adding a very contemporary appearance to your projects.
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Digital Grounds: Printing on Hessian
17 Oct | Posted in Digital Grounds, Image Transfer, Inkjet Printing | By LindaMWant to learn more about using Digital Grounds on fabric? Then check out my DVD Exploring Digital Grounds on Fabric
Are you enjoying playing with your Digital Grounds? My obsession continues …
Continuing my tests with Digital Grounds, I thought I’d try it out on some hessian. I love the texture of the hessian and though that it might produce a nice print – which indeed it did!
The image below was created in photoshop and then printed onto a piece of off-white hessian that was treated with Digital Grounds. The Digital Grounds made the hessian quite stiff which produced a great surface on which to print.
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Don’t you just love printing on fabric? I can’t think what I did before I discovered that my inkjet printer was so creative.
I was browsing through my seemingly endless list of resources and thought you might enjoy this link to some images that can be used for printable fabric.
Also, don’t forget you can use just about any high res image (make sure it’s copyright free of course) to print on fabric, such as these great textures. Sometimes the print results are almost as good as hand-painted fabric!
I hope you’ll find something that you’ll like.
