tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72788888925699850392024-02-01T22:53:26.572-08:00FiberPlaceI'm an art junkie, a painter for many years, but my life now seems to be filled with fabrics, art quilts, dyeing, refashioning (and who said that was easy?) and watching "Project Runway". And of course, the ever present task avoidance.dollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04879902588875471699noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278888892569985039.post-56372767608906714802011-09-05T20:23:00.000-07:002011-09-05T20:29:41.362-07:00Sock Tops or Sculpture?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My friend, Kristi Holt, an avid weaver, showed me her latest creations. I was so intrigued by the textural "ball". Actually, it's the main "ingredient" for her rugs. They are sock tops and that is how they are shipped to her. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can see this on a table top as a lovely piece of art. I'm sure my cat would enjoy it, also.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The picture above shows the lovely rug and the ball of sock tops. Makes sense when you see them pictured together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We took advantage of the great weather and displayed her scarves and table runners outside. Her work is lovely. It takes a long time just getting her loom set up and ready for her weaving. I'll admit I don't have nearly that amount of patience. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Along with sock tops she showed me a bag of sock bottoms or is it sock toes? Well, you get the idea. I remember doing these as a kid, but my materials weren't as lush as these. Thanks, Kristi, for sharing the results of your talents with us!</span></div>
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<span closure_uid_hyusp6="194" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Honestly, I didn't think the subject was fun at all, but more like the show's creative staff saying "well, I don't have a clue so let's do stilts".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to get to those UFOs (you know, unfinished objects).</span></div>
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<span closure_uid_ukb9po="169" style="font-family: Verdana;">However, Kate always seems caught up and usually has a few things to share with us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is only a couple of feet from my window, but the squirrel wasn't concerned about having his picture taken...he was way too comfortable!</span></div>dollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04879902588875471699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278888892569985039.post-45205850971969831972011-06-07T18:30:00.000-07:002011-06-07T18:30:16.159-07:00Fab Fiber Woman and another challenge...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that was and still is, great fun! We each had to bring a small amount of fabric, a glue stick, scissors and etcetera. And you know the etcetera can be overflowing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We quickly picked a theme. Flowers. Then the timer was set for 90 minutes, fabrics were dumped on the floor and we began. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I like it enough that I've decided to make lots and join them into one wall hanging. The colors, of course, will not be for the faint of heart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Feeling inspired I started a different and again, a small art quilt. The background fabric is a piece of fabric I painted and the tree is an old oak tree in my backyard struggling to survive, but the idea came from a wonderful book <em><u>"The Complete Photo Guide to Textile Art"</u></em> by Susan Stein. For me this is a "must have" book filled with so much information and more than 500 large format color photos. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then check out the above blog and you only have a few days left before the auction ends and who doesn't love an auction?</span></div>dollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04879902588875471699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278888892569985039.post-26528429611662975362011-06-05T03:58:00.000-07:002011-06-05T03:58:54.001-07:00For all you former Northerners...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I sent my grandson a late Birthday present recently. It's a place mat with fabrics that represent his interests: music, golf, and fishing. I added his picture to really personalize it. The binding is yellow. The other side has the music pattern.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Honestly, I've come up with ideas and then tossed them as I was working on them, but I shall do it. I think it's the brown that's doing me in. Have to do it, after all it IS a challenge.</span></div>
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</div>dollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04879902588875471699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278888892569985039.post-72540864577025346162011-04-27T05:59:00.000-07:002011-04-27T05:59:50.149-07:00The intrepid spirit of daffodils...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">is remarkable. They were covered with snow twice and the second time they were already in bloom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We've had about two or three nice days and I guess that's all they need. It certainly is a morale booster to see spring flowers (even though it's raining...again).</span><br />
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</div>dollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04879902588875471699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278888892569985039.post-23115994157455903582011-04-18T09:15:00.000-07:002011-04-18T09:24:08.735-07:00How tough are daffodils?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okay, this is getting tiresome, really. We have another two inches of snow on the ground and my lovely daffodils are covered...again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We're resilient, living in Michigan, but even we are begging for Spring weather now. I couldn't go out and take pictures of the flowers covered with snow because of my air cast so I did some through the window stuff.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Yes, this is lovely, but it would be lovelier in December!.</span></td></tr>
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</div>dollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04879902588875471699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278888892569985039.post-10539029638678376852011-04-13T11:57:00.000-07:002011-04-14T04:58:30.167-07:00Join me on a tour...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of the <span style="color: #134f5c;"><em><strong>"Fascination with Fibers"</strong></em></span> show presented by the </span><a href="http://www.huronvalleyarts.org/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Huron Valley Council for the Arts in Highland, Michigan</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. The cultural arts center is in the Historic Highland Station House, a wonderful building that is totally charming.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The exhibition runs through April 30 and if you're in the area be sure to see the show. There is more to see than what I've posted here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please note that this is a beautifully hung show, but here and there I couldn't get close enough to take a better picture so it may appear that things are slightly out of kilter, but it was me, not the artwork.</span><br />
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</div>dollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04879902588875471699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278888892569985039.post-27275100751941759422011-04-08T21:05:00.000-07:002011-04-14T04:58:30.116-07:00Just a quick stop to say hello...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and to mention that probably like everyone else, this has been a hectic week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We've had a nature "treat" for several days on our lake. There have been dozens of Canvasback ducks and I was told this was unusual for us. They are really lovely and seem to spend a lot of time head first in the water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We had a <em>"Fabulous Fiber Women"</em> meeting last night and tackled paper cloth and I'll show you the results soon. We all need to finish our projects, of course. So now there's an additional UFO. It's late, talk to you soon.</span></div>dollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04879902588875471699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278888892569985039.post-35885453333863677462011-04-01T19:47:00.000-07:002011-04-14T04:59:16.542-07:00I always have a long list of excuses...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: black;">but, honestly, I won't bore you with them. I really <u>am </u>working on bits and pieces for my Challenge art quilt that we are doing in our new fiber arts group. Our challenge is to use 80% brown, some sheers and incorporate "knowledge". </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Let's just say there have been a few interruptions, but I guess that's real life. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">I've been playing with my Photoshop Elements program. I'm not good at it, but I certainly persevere! So naturally, it takes me twice as long to "do" something I am happy with. I've hand painted and printed fabric, painted cheesecloth, used my own photographs, hand colored the images and so on and so forth and somewhere, probably in the Milky Way, are a few photos I'd love to find again.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The oak tree, bottom left, (above) was used in several images</span>.</td></tr>
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Meanwhile, I'm also doing a challenge type of thing with my sister-in-law. We keep it pretty light and I thank her for that.<br />
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Tomorrow I will be practicing making paper cloth, since I will be "teaching" our new group next week. That's funny, actually, since tomorrow will be my first time. <br />
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And...there's the matter of the unread book for book club, but that's our secret.<br />
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And...the high school gals are coming for lunch. I told them to skip the white glove test since I have a broken foot. No doubt, they'll arrive <em>wearing white gloves.</em><br />
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Sorry about the "new look" of my blog. Am trying to change it back, no luck so far. I think I'll have to borrow a neighborhood six year old to help, they're so good at this.</div>dollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04879902588875471699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278888892569985039.post-28247450836991445072011-03-23T15:10:00.000-07:002011-04-14T04:59:16.517-07:00Aren't these the very best...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">fabric bowls you've ever seen? </span><a href="http://www.desireevaughn.com/"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Desiree Vaughn</strong></span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> created these and I salivate when I see them. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They're in the Fall 'o6 issue of</span><a href="http://www.quiltingdaily.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/quiltingarts/3173.bowls.jpg"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Quilting Arts magazine</strong></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and even though fabric bowls are everywhere, I think these are the most artistic.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Okay, now that I've become inspired, it's back to my challenge art quilt.</span></span></div>dollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04879902588875471699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278888892569985039.post-24015853185012356512011-03-17T19:10:00.000-07:002011-04-14T04:59:16.547-07:00I'll admit I'm a tree junkie...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and always have been. And I think that's what my theme will be in my next project because o</span><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ur <span style="color: magenta;">"Fabulous Fiber Women"</span> group has created a challenge. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have to have 80% of "it" done in <span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><strong><span style="color: #45818e;"><u>brown</u></span></strong><span style="color: #45818e;"><strong>,</strong> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">we have to include sheer fabrics and somehow incorporate Hope into the final piece. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Arial;">Now, I don't hate brown, but I sure don't love it and so this will be a true challenge.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Arial;">I will do an art quilt and I've been thinking of adding lots of texture and today, wearing my air boot and dodging large patches of snow I took some photos that I will use.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have lots more, but these will get me started. Brown? Honestly, I'm trying to think positive on that one. Will hand paint my own fabrics tomorrow.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Haven't painted the air boot with Lumiere yet. Another tomorrow project?</span></div>dollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04879902588875471699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278888892569985039.post-54474131919875578692011-03-16T11:41:00.000-07:002011-04-14T04:59:16.498-07:00A New Fiber Arts Group is being created...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="background-color: white;">and I feel so fortunate to be a part of it.</span> We may be calling ourselves <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">"Fabulous Fiber Women"</span> </span>and we are! Even though we are a tiny group at the moment, I can tell we have great potential because of our enthusiasm. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: inherit;">Judy "loves all things artsy/crafty" and has a workroom in her lower level to die for! She has yards and yards of her hand-dyed fabrics and lots of art quilts on her walls. Plus, and here's my favorite part...boxes and boxes of anything anyone would ever need for any project. Judy loves thread painting and says it relaxes her. (When I do free-motion stitching, I have to remember to breathe!)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">Our other member is Kate and she is a multi-faceted artist! We will be at her studio soon and I'm sure it'll be a great adventure. She has a background in Landscape Architecture at MSU and Kate likes to combine the various forms of textiles, glass and metal to embellish an art quilt and often uses photographs within the pieces or as the inspiration for the piece. So talented Kate sews, paints, fuses and slumps glass, and creates custom greeting cards at <a href="http://www.piecesofmeartgifts.com/"><span style="color: #38761d;">www.piecesofmeartgifts.com</span></a></span><span style="color: #38761d;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">Me? Well, my background for what seems like forever has been painting in mainly acrylics and some oils. But, I've always loved fiber art and I'm doing a lot of fabric painting plus I'll be at Dye Camp this summer for a couple of days so that will be a whole new experience. I'm really looking forward to learning new things from the very accomplished women that will be there.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">At our first meeting, Judy introduced us to knitting/crocheting such as done by <a href="http://prudencemapstone.com/"><span style="color: #783f04;">Prudence Mapstone</span></a> who does such creative work! Well, Judy is amazing at this. Me? I can knit and crochet if my "how to" books are <u>next</u> to me, but I have high hopes of making a wall piece out of these and a few more. (<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><strong>small</strong> wall piece</span>). I tried to use wire from a scrubby type of thing, but that was painful so I'll forget that. I'm bravely showing a few pieces here. I'll tell you about our long-term challenge next. Hint: Brown!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it isn't broken. Okay, so much for that theory. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the end of February, I took a dramatic fall (at home) and other than the excruciating pain for about 30+ minutes, I figured I was okay. Well, long story short, I am now wearing a pneumatic boot and have a very serious break in my foot. I'm seriously thinking of creating some designs on the solid part of the boot with Lumiere paints. Give me a few days and you may see the results. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I got home from the doctor's office I was greeted with a package on my porch and it was the arrival of <span style="color: red;">Rayna</span> <span style="color: red;">Gillman's</span> book. Talk about good timing! Such a great visual treat!! <a href="http://studio78notes.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: black;"><em>"Create Your Own Hand-Printed Cloth"</em></span></a> is the title and it's very much like having a conversation with Rayna as you go through her book. So fun and so inspiring, thanks Rayna. (The gelatin plates may be the first thing I'll try). I had the pleasure of seeing Rayna's work in person at the Janice Charach Gallery last month.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial;">Well, I tried the flour+water=equals Batik again and this time the results were better, however, I realize that was really just <u>luck</u>. Below is the result.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think I'll put this piece in my etsy shop.</span> <a href="http://fiberplace.etsy.com/">http://fiberplace.etsy.com/</a> </div>dollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04879902588875471699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278888892569985039.post-71677625708176299252011-02-28T19:16:00.000-08:002011-04-14T04:59:16.509-07:00If you need instant gratification...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">then this is NOT the project to pick! </span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I saw it on <a href="http://quiltingarts.com/">Quilting Arts, Quilting Daily </a>. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The subject was "Spring into a Fresh Batik Technique" so of course, I was hooked</span>.<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a nutshell, use a fat quarter size piece of cotton 'cause that is manageable. I used premium muslin that had been washed and dried and sort of ironed a bit. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">are some of my favorite subjects to photograph. Funny...they're usually very near to each other, come to think of it. Unless one lives in Arizona, I suppose. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Actually, since we are in the middle of a snow storm that may go into freezing rain, I may wait just a bit to do those photos. And tiny out of the way cemeteries are the best so I shall have to do some Googling first. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some of these images will find their way into my art quilts, I'm sure. No doom or gloom, though.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Arial;">In my paintings there <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><strong>are</strong></span> lots of trees, but no graveyard markers.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Arial;">Ran across <span style="color: #b45f06;"><a href="http://www.carandache.com/">Caran d'Ache</a></span> watercolor crayons and used them on fabric to see what happens. Heatset or not, I can tell they won't be washable and the results showed that the colors, when dry, were much lighter, but they would be so cool on paper! Checked the company's website and this product is not listed. No telling how long I've had these.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but with a fun result. I followed the instructions on <a href="http://www.cjenkinscompany.com/">Bubble Jet 2000</a>, used premium muslin and the following photos show my results:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This is the "exciting" soaking of the fabric in the Bubble Jet 2000 for 5 minutes</span>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The image on left is printed on premium muslin and the right is the original on regular copy paper</span>. <span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Sorry, should have done a better close-up.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">These have just been printed. The bottom right was done on "T-shirt transfer" setting on my Canon S520 printer, an older model printer, but a keeper.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The left has been briefly washed with Woolite, laid out to dry and pressed. There was some slight fading. The original is on right. The handsome young man is Thomas B. Traicoff.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">These are the finished "trees". The bottom right image showed me that using the "t-shirt" option on my printer <span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>wasn't</strong></span> a great idea.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">For art quilts, I will try Robbie's method. (<a href="http://robbiespawprints.blogspot.com/">http://robbiespawprints.blogspot.com/</a>) (see comment). </span></td></tr>
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