Summer School continued

In my last post I showed the fabrics I had printed.  Here's what they looked liked together.

Photo by Liske Johnson

I had a Thermofax screen made of the poem I wrote and using fabric paint printed onto some of the fabrics.  Then I started tearing them up and collaging them.  This is now tacked ready to sew, probably on the sewing machine.

These were random pieces left over which looked good together.  They are lightly bonded to a piece of calico.  I haven't decided what to do with this.

I tore up the fabrics into 6x4" pieces and put them together to make a hanging book.  This can either hang on the wall or fold up.  It's double sided.  This is one side.

And this is the other.  It's all tacked together ready to stitch.

Then with a large piece of fabric I made a book.  I ironed bondaweb on the back of the fabric and then folded it in 4 one way and 4 the other.  I cut it like this

Cut along the red lines

I removed the backing paper carefully and ironed the pages together.

I made a cover with one of the other fabrics

With some of the leftovers I started making small collages.  Some of these will probably go on the pages of the hanging book.

I still have lots of the printed fabrics left, but it might be better to finish all these before I start something else.  Or not!

Thanks for joining me today
Bernice

Two down. One to go!

Last October (2021) when I was at Committed to Cloth I cut up lots of fabric and reassembled it. I ended up with these three:

Aprox 48x30cms

Approx 55x50cms

Approx 97x57cms

Each piece lay on the spare bed from then on.

At the beginning of January 2022 I set myself the goal of finishing them all by March 31st.  A reasonable goal you might think.

Unless you don't touch them again until March 30th.  !!!!

I managed to complete the smallest one by the end of March 31st.  Go me!

Finished size 49x30cms

And finish this on by lunchtime yesterday, April 1st.

Finished size 56x52cms

But sadly the third piece hasn't been touched as I ran out of the colour thread I was using and I'm waiting for the new thread to arrive.

Still two out of three isn't bad!

Did you set yourself any goals at the beginning of the year?  If so, how are you getting on?

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice

Tulip Book

So yesterday I mentioned my 'Tulip' Book.  This is a class by Ineke Berlyn.

I dyed and printed the fabrics at a workshop at Ineke's studio and then tore the calico up to make the book.  It's called a 'Tulip' Book because that was the theme Ineke used for her class sample!

The dyed and printed calico.

Some of the 'pages' sewn together

These next two photos show the stitching I did at the crop on Sunday.

And this is the 'page' I have left to finish.

I love using fabric that I've made myself.

Thanks for stopping by.

Bernice