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!

Not Bad Art

Surface Design Sampler Platter

with Lyric Kinard

The big day finally arrived. Weather forecasts kept me biting my nails until we were finally situated with Lyric at the helm. And then...what a fun day!

One of Lyric's important tips for growing as an artist: Make bad art. Otherwise the really good stuff never emerges from within us. I did my share of bad art on this day, just like most days, but there was some seriously NOT BAD art produced during our class.

Here are a few images that just barely capture the creativity, fun and learning that took place:

We received kits with which to make small journal covers. You can see from the above pictures that several of the students were well on their way to designing and completing some gorgeous journal covers. After a few bad-art attempts, I got going on a piece that I like quite a lot. I went home and completed my little journal cover with a beaded cabochon.

If you took this class, please, please send me pictures of your journal covers to post here on the Fiber Art Fusion blog. I cannot wait to see yours!