LINDA KITTMER'S FIBRE ART, PHOTOGRAPHY & JOURNALLING: Decolourant

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Machine Doodling 'Celebrate Who You Are'...

Last Friday I posted about how I created the beginnings of this piece which I've called 'Celebrate Who You Are'. Today I want to show you the next steps in this on-going 'work in progress'.

Using an off white thread, I stitched the lines from Sue Pelletier's Loose Woman #1 stencil over the image on the fabric. I intentionally used a very loose stitch line, going over each line two or three times, to create a very 'imperfect' doodled line in keeping with the text on the piece.

I outlined the text boxes and loosely traced over the text.

Here are some close up images of various parts:

And the finished focal piece in it's entirety. I plan to mount this element onto another quilted piece, and then add some hand stitch and maybe some beading. Hopefully I'll be able to show you the finished piece in the near future!

Friday, December 13, 2013

A StencilGirl Blog Hop Featuring Sue Pelletier's Designs...

I'm back today, playing along in another StencilGirl blog hop, this time featuring the designs of Sue Pelletier. I love Sue's whimsical designs and today I'm using her Loose Woman #1 stencil. I decided to experiment with a technique that's been on my 'to do' list for some time...using deColourant, a product created to remove pigment from fabric.

I started with a wonderfully colourful piece of my hand dyed fabric. After laying the stencil over the fabric I sprayed the deColourant over the entire image. Following the directions on the spray bottle, I waited until it had dried completely (I'm not good at this waiting part, but it specifically says to let it air dry so I had no choice!).

Once the deColourant was completely dry, I used a steam iron and ironed the fabric, watching the magic as the colour left, leaving behind Sue's fabulous Loose Woman image!

I then used an idea I got from Laura Kemshall. I printed the text I wanted to add to the piece, added a piece of freezer paper over top and then used a craft knife to cut the text out, leaving behind the stencil of the words.

The freezer paper stencils were ironed onto the fabric and I then used a white Shiva paintstik and my finger to apply the paint.

As you can see, I put paint in the letters and also around the outer edge of the mini word stencils so that I could highlight the shape of the word 'blocks'.

When the freezer paper was carefully removed, the text and those block shapes were left! The next step in this work in progress will be to add some machine stitch. I hope you'll come back next Wednesday when I'll be posting about the machine doodling/stitching that I plan to add. Until then, enjoy the rest of the blog hop (more details below) and have a fabulous weekend!