Something About Nothing

Had a playdate with my friend Melanie Testa  and her kitty, Peach. I wanted to introduce Melly to my favorite carving material, Eco Karve , and my favorite fabric paint, Artistic Artifact fluid textile paint.   Eco Karve is so easy to carve, and I love that it is recycled rubber.  Peach needed to make sure she had her time in the spotlight as well.  This is the stamp Melly carved. We used the fabric paint to stamp on some commercial batiks. Artistic Artifact's fluid textile paint stamps so well, and I love the long open time, as well as the softness on the fabric.  It was a very fun day which ended. . . .   . . . with a full rainbow!

Using the semi-transparent paint I picked up from Artistic Artifacts ,  I printed polka dots on some hand dyed fabric. The top fabric is blue first and then yellow inside,  while the bottom fabric was black first and then blue inside. The black and blue is my favorite. I have mixed feelings about the way the paint is repelling on the rubber. While it isn't what I envisioned, it does create a pretty cool texture.

Jeanne Hewell-Chambers has taken on the enormous project of creating an international collaborative art project to commemorate the lives of the 70,273 physically and mentally disable people murdered by the Nazi's in 1940-41, and I feel the need to contribute. I have made a few blocks using fabric paint, gel plate and a stencil. These twelve blocks took less than an hour and are just a small contribution toward the blocks needed to complete the project.  By sharing them here on my blog, I'm hoping to draw more attention to the 70,273 Project and encourage others to participate as well.  You can read more about the project and what you can do to contribute by following these links. What is the 70273 Project? How to Get Involved Share

Liz  and  Ruth  were scheduled to teach a few Take n' Teach classes before Market started on Sunday and Monday mornings and so we all piled in the truck and left at o-dark-thirty to live the dream! A couple of Liz' samples for the Sunday morning class. Sunday morning's class was making embroidery pins with wool from Valdani. I had the privilege of being minion (aka tagalong) and photographer for the class. Ruth and Liz have written several books on hand stitching and run The Thread Lab in Colorado. Ruth showing a student how to make a French knot. Ruth explaining a stitch to Libby Williamson Ruth Chandler's sample book from her Modern Hand Stitching book. Just a few of the beautiful pieces made by students in class. Monday morning's class was all about printing on Roc-lon Ava-lon, Osnaburg, Canvas and Multipurpose cloth fabric using mono-printing on gel plates with wooden printing blocks , s...