July Meeting: Digital Printing, Spoonflower, and of course Show N Tell

Danielle's postcard with thread-painting enhancements

Our meeting last night was yet again overflowing with inspiration, information, and just plain fun. Here are some of the show n tell items displayed:

Ben's Quilt for his church to hang in a Central American clinic they support

Cornelia's products from a mushroom dyeing class

Marian's work from a drawing class

Thread painting by Marian

Terry's samples from the mushroom dyeing class

Kathy presented some great tools and techniques for digital printing. Then she introduced us to Spoonflower. We are all hooked now.

Digitally printed fabric, used as a mask for further digital printing

Digital print enhanced with stitch

A resulting piece using the previous mask for a tree print

Digital print from a photograph

Digital print enhanced with oil crayons and stitch. Very three-dimensional

A color chart from Spoonflower

A Spoonflower sampler from many of Kathy's digital creations

Thanks to Kathy for a great presentation. And thanks to Spoonflower for sharing a swatch pack with each of us. Great future fun!

Boro Cloth and Kantha Too

For our April meeting, I presented a short talk on Japanese Boro cloth , as well as Kantha cloth. Then we played with strips of fabric torn and woven into 12x12 pieces:

As always there was much inspirational show and tell:

And some cool tools to consider:

These crayola markers produced rich color. See below:

This is a preferred pen for permanent drawing on fabric:

Rubber Stamp Fantasy workshop

Embossed soda cans,

Tyvec melts

Die cuts and Shrink Plastic

Bleached paper and pens

Paints and Inks and Ribbons

All this and more at Rubber Stamp Fantasy during our March meeting.

Many thanks to Debbie for this fast-paced, fun and informative workshop!