Surface Design in Edmonton

Here are a few more pictures from Day Four and Five at Quilters Dream. Students learned a variety of methods of creating their own stamps including Art Foam, Speedy Cut and pre cut shapes.

Carol has created design on fabrics she had dyed on previous days. She has a coordinated palette to work with.

Cindy made a stamp with concentric circles, the designs makes an interesting secondary pattern.

Kathy is intently working with a repeating design using her stamp.

Lynette has a leaf pattern using Decolourant paste and then has stamped a design as a border.

Another project with adding Decolorant paste over a quilted texture.

We had so much fun with a very talented group of creative ladies. Thank you so much for the opportunity to share with you!

Soy Wax Batik in Edmonton!

We've had an exciting time at the Quilters Dream in Edmonton for three days of screen, plate and mono printing, plus deconstructed printing and much more. I had many enthusiastic and dedicated students!
Here are some students working on their soy wax batik projects.

Lynette has painted her fabrics with dye solution after applying the coloured wax.

Jackie is getting ready to use a dye solution.

Shirley is explaining her technique to Darlene, the store manager.

Luba has applied the coloured wax with a spong roller. Have a look below for her fabulous design with coloured wax and dye solution. Exciting colours ready for steaming!

Have you had a chance to use soy wax? Its a wonderful product for an exciting technique!

Design Decisions

Yesterday I had a wonderful time in my wet studio playing with plain and coloured discharge paste. I'm preparing more samples for my workshops at Quilters Dream in Edmonton next month. I made some fat quarter sized circles on black:

I then layered them on top of one another, cut them into quarters and schuffled the quarters around.

I pulled out every thread I could find that would work on the discharged circles and quilted one of them heavily all over:

The other one awaits the sandwiching and quilting. Now, here's my dilemma---I like the uneven outer edges, maybe trimmed down a little bit. I'm thinking of leaving the edges like that, perhaps putting the piece on a deeper red or purple backing, perhaps quite narrow. What do you think?

I like this technique and could see doing lots more of these, perhaps larger and smaller blocks in a "sort of" mosaic. Options?