Yes more 10cm square collages for the Textile Explorations workshop.
I'm trying to use up fabrics I have already made for previous projects.
Some of the collages are random. Actually all of them are random! But some fit Liske's list of things to explore. Below right is a log cabin square and at the bottom is paper lamination.
Actually paper lamination isn't on the list but I found some left over so I bonded it to some printed fabric.
At the October get together of the Art Textiles workshop I had a go at flour paste resist. I've done it before but wanted it to have another go.
Normally I think you would use a darker colour to paint through the crackle but I wanted to stick with my colour scheme so used copper acrylic paint. Plus I used already printed fabric so the contrast is not as strong as it might have been.
I love these serendiptous little trees.
Because all my collages to date had straight lines, Liske challenged me to do some curves.
I took the original collages with me to C2C to stitch in the evenings at the hotel. That didn't happen. I can see there's going to have to be a mammoth stitch session at some point.
Following on from my last post about paper collage play, my last two days were spent with paper and fabric.
At Festival of Quilts I had printed Venice based themes onto white cotton poplin. I had taken the fabric with me to C2C. After the conversations about contrast I decided it would be good to overdye some of the fabric to produce a medium and a dark version. While I was waiting for the fabric to absorb the dye I made a paper collage using only black and shades of grey paper.
I also made a small zigzag book and inspired by some work I saw on Instagram from Littleheath Barn Studio I cut out circles and reinserted them.
I washed out the fabrics and dried them.
The fabrics didn't turn out quite how I had envisioned but this is what I have to work with. I started cutting up the fabrics into different sizes of rectangles and put them on the deisgn wall.
The finished design which was then bonded to a backing fabric.
I also cut some squares from the original fabric and bonded them to a backing fabric.
By the end of the week my design wall looked like this
I enjoyed my 5 days of play. There's no access to the internet or a phone signal at C2C so it's all about play and conversation.
