'Stroll down the Lane'.....

 

Margaret’s chosen colour - green - how lovely, so many ideas spring to mind, but what gives her much pleasure. Everyday she goes for a walk with Hattie, her ever faithful crazy dachshund. Perfect! 

I have a technique which I especially love when tackling trees, so I thought 1 tree would frame the image nicely. Using dissolvable plastic, I laid strips of silk and painted cheesecloth for the trunk, on top of which I laid various shades and shapes of voile. 

When machine stitching, all voiles need to be enclosed and any edges firmly attached to each other. I added a few green silk velvet shapes to represent leaves once the machining was completed but making sure they were secure. Then the fun part, immerse the whole piece in warm water to completely dissolve the plastic, then dry thoroughly. 

From my silk painting days I had some lovely ‘sky’ pieces so one was perfect for the background. In the ufo box lurked a piece of painted calico perfect for a path and bushes. Voila, the page was complete. Something was missing - of course dear Hattie !!!

How long will it be before we can relish long walks , who knows, but in the mean time we have our memories and imagination.

Thanks for reading

Jenni

Rusty Gold....

 

Using an old circular saw blade that I had used previously together with some other rusty nails and bits and pieces, I rusted some silk and Egyptian cotton with a solution of vinegar and water.
I was delighted with the results. I bonded them onto some pelmet Vylene and zigzagged around the edges to keep the sandwiches together.
On the front page I used Markle sticks and stencils to put the Title.
As it can be difficult to sew into rusted fabric I did some appliqué on the inside front cover, including frayed organza and an open textured webbing.
On my rusted 8” sq page I attached ammonites that I had stamped onto a medium weight Lutradur. I used fancy sequins. I then made a dissolvable paper ammonite which I painted with gold paint.
I hope you enjoyed reading this. Keep safe. Jane

Rust.....

Rust was my choice of colour, but of course I had to include a little blue.

Rusted fabrics, painted papers, painted and waxed brown paper circles, hand dyed fabric. Raw edge collage. Machine quilted. Distorted blanket stitch.

Thanks for reading.

Sue

Rich rust and glistening gold.....

Jane chose rusty gold for her coloured pages, what a wonderfully rich choice. My mind mulled several ideas over, round and about, as I was working on the red and blue pages, and then the way forward became clear! I love it when this seems to happen almost overnight.

I remembered when Jane and I were showing each other our sketchbook pages for our planned exhibition, in those far off and distant days of previous normality, (getting together and making plans), when we both realised we had created similar pages, quite separately. We had used maps and woven papers together....

So...this weaving seemed the perfect starting point for my page for Jane. Once again my stash offered up remnants from quilts my mother had made, which seemed really appropriate with the figurative sun and rays, and even a scrap from her wedding dress from 1957. I love to add to the tactile nature by adding velvets and wool felts to the cotton and silk fabrics.

Add into the mix the lace, a glitzy button from Granny’s tin, and even a mother of Pearl buckle, some bling of metallic fabric as well as seed beads, and gradually the page came together.

It was a joy to add to the stitching in odd snatches of time, a little bit here and there allowed the piece to grow quite quickly. So the finished piece is sort of related to my other pages, but at the same time somehow different, each seems to take on their own personality as I work on them!

Once again, thank you for reading!

Debbie