Yet more craftsy stuff!

Hi again. Hard to believe another year is nearly over! With classes over for the semester, I've been amusing myself with some more craftsy things. Last time I posted, I had laid out a couple of fabric pieces, one with sunflowers and one bright, colourful one. After a couple of weeks, I realized I didn't quite know what I was going to do with them if I ever finished them, so I cut them up into smaller pieces (postcards and ATCs). Here they are in their new form:




I also made some Christmas-y postcards and ATCs:




(I sure hope that Quilting Arts magazine does an ATC swap at the quilt show in Chicago this year!! If not, guess what my friends will be getting for their birthdays?!)

I've also been playing with fabric painting. I've seen some wonderful examples on Pokey Bolton's Quilting Arts blog, and got some ideas from various books (including Traci Bautista's Collage Unleashed). Mine don't exactly live up to their standards, but I'm pretty pleased with them.

Here's one piece I painted. It has kind of an outer-space feel to me (a red planet, yellow flames coming out from it). I'm going to try to figure out how to quilt it or paint it more to bring that out.



The next one is a piece of commercially-printed fabric (a black & white print) that I painted:



These pictures show my painted fabric, and then what it looked like after I finished stamping and stenciling it.







And finally, a few more pieces (I'm not sure I like the second one; maybe if I keep stamping it, it will get better!)




This last one is very different from the others. I "painted" it by laying the fabric down on the waxed paper I was using to protect my table while painting the other fabrics. So it sopped up some of the excess paint that seeped through and created a really subtle background.




By the way, if you're wondering what I'm going to do with this fabric ... well, so am I!! More ATCs probably!! If you have any ideas, let me know.

So that's what I've been doing!

Best wishes to you for the holiday season!