Here is my first entirely hand printed quilt top using my Melly Marks Lace Swirl Kit! I am loving it, I love the movement of the zig-zag half square triangles, the gradation of colors, the simplicity too. Later in the process of making the quilt top, I nabbed a few handprints created using Swirl Vine Kit toContinue reading “Lace Swirl quilt complete!”
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Getting from Here to There
Since taking this Free Range Textile Printers show on the road, I have printed about 80 Lace Swirl and Herring Bone fat sixteenths in total. In keeping with a recent love affair with Half Square Triangles, I went to work trimming them all to 8.25″, I like to cut them one at a time toContinue reading “Getting from Here to There”
Lace Swirl Quilt Top
This last weekend was quite productive. I took Bucket to my twice yearly quilt retreat and made great progress while #freerangetextileprinting. Then, I came home, switched out the newspaper and tinfoil I had been using to steam (this is a link to Pokey Bolton’s blog related to our Playful Fabric Printing blog hop-who chose the steamer as aContinue reading “Lace Swirl Quilt Top”
We were tired of living in a house and the finer points in the life of a #freerangetextileprinter
I couldn’t rush my current Speed Print! I would really like some Chevron single color prints to fill out the use-ability of these hand prints in a quilt top. I had previously hoped to steam and sew this coming weekend, a retreat weekend. But. I have decided to slow down and do it all. CheckContinue reading “We were tired of living in a house and the finer points in the life of a #freerangetextileprinter”
This weekend in Studio Melly
It started with tickets to Jazz at Lincoln Center , a happy couple, and some great lighting. The show was amazing. My weekend continued with a request by my Man to change my cellphone lock screen to this image of David Bowie. And I couldn’t agree more. I remain ever grateful to have walked the earthContinue reading “This weekend in Studio Melly”
Considering Color and Placement
In learning to use the concepts Carol and I present in Playful Fabric Printing, I have done a lot of experimentation (we both have). In retrospect, as I ponder my approach to using dye paste and printing as is described in our new book, I would say, at first I was exuberant, I threw caution toContinue reading “Considering Color and Placement”
Melly Marks Kits, StencilGirl stencils and my new Etsy Store!
I am quite happy to announce that I have opened a store through Etsy, called Melly Marks Playfully. At-the-same-time? StencilGirl is releasing a line of stencils in my name!!!! In the coming days, we will announce a print-along in the Playful Fabric Printing Community Facebook page. I would love to print along side you as youContinue reading “Melly Marks Kits, StencilGirl stencils and my new Etsy Store!”
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