Construction

In my first year at Committed to Cloth I took the Wet n’ Wild wet media course. I produced quite a lot of fabric including this piece.

I pleated a piece of cotton sateen, tray dyed it with petrol green procion dye. Next I used a manky brush to brush it with soya wax and then painted it with a thin magenta procion dye. I call it “Slaughterhouse Floor”. I’ve been planning to construct something from it for a while and I wanted a quick project to use as a sorbet palate cleanser between quilt courses so I made a bag at my September “back to school” Committed to Cloth session.

I’ve had an idea for a bag using wooden curtain rings for some time.

My machine quilting has improved in the last year or two. It’s practice and relaxing in to it (some say a large glass of wine helps but I haven’t tried that yet!). You have to remember not to tense your shoulders.