Festival of Alabama Fiber Arts

Had a great time at the festival!  And what a great venue!

www.oldalabamatown.com

 

SOUTH ALABAMA FIBER ENTHUSIASTS

Saturday March 23
Festival of Alabama Fiber Arts
Montgomery, AL. 

The festival will be held in downtown Montgomery
at Old  Alabama Town. I will be demonstrating my sewing technique and I'll also have my book
Sewing |Pottery by Machine
and art pieces available.

More 3/4"-wide fabric strip ideas!

ORNAMENTS

 

 

 

 

Use your leftover 3/4"-wide fabric strips

If you're like me, you save all of your extra 3/4"-wide fabrics strips left over from your Soft Pottery coiling projects. This is a fun way to use up some of those strips!  I've made this cute MUG RUG.  Use this technique to make ornaments, coasters, table runners, ...the possibilities are endless!

Here's the tute:

    1.  Cut a square of quilt batting or stabilizer.  Sew  a strip to the batting using a 1/8" seam allowance. 
 

 
         2.  Sew the next strip to the first strip, right sides together.  Finger press the second strip to the right side.  Add the next strip.
 

   

          3.  Continue adding strips until your  batting is covered.

      

        4.  Place a square of backing fabric under your square of strips.  Use a CD as a pattern to draw a circle onto your strips. 

 

 

     5.  Stitch on the line.  Cut out the circle  1/8"  outside the stitching.  Finish the edge with a satin stitch or a finishing technique of your choice.

 



Dye-licious Mini Quilt

I was experimenting with my Rit dye www.ritdye.com and came up with this fun technique.  I did a low-water immersion technique using Scarlet and Apple green.  After my fabric had dried, I used a cookie cutter dipped in bleach to make the leaf motifs.  Next I quilted around the shapes, added more stitching with copper metallic thread and finished the edges with the metallic thread.  I'm making 3 of these and adding grommets so I can  hang them horizontally as a wall hanging.   Each mini is approximately 71/2" x 10".                        

New Student of Soft Pottery

I love to post pictures of pieces of art that my readers have made.  If you've made something, send me a picture and I'll share it! 

 

I received a very nice email from Annie Viktora and she included pictures of her fine work. 

 

Great job Annie!!

 

 

 

Annie's first "pot"

Note the way Annie has used yarn, copper  wire, and beads to embellish her pieces!

Dye-Painted Art Quilt

Dye-Painted Wall Art
   1. Draw your image on cotton fabric with a quilter's disapperaing ink  pen.
   2.  Trace over the image using Elmer's School Glue Gel (the blue one).  Allow the glue to dry completely.
   3. Use small batches of Rit Liquid Dye, mixed as directed, to paint in all areas of your picture.
   4.  Rinse in cool water until all of the glue is removed .
   5.  Quilt as desired.

I MADE THE COVER!

See the August Issue of

Crafts N Things Magazine.

The project I did is on the cover.  It's just a "teaser " photo but it is on the cover!

The magazine will be in stores soon!

August Issue