Committed to Cloth – Page 2 – Melanie Makes Meringues

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Committed to Cloth – Last Session of 2011!

I had my last session at Committed to Cloth for 2011. Next year I will be doing independant study in stitch and as we do not go back until February there is quite a long break. I spent most of the last session scraping thickened dyes on to some new fabric…

Bagz

Seem to have been making a lot of bags lately. I've been holding on to this adorable piece of vintage fabric for a while now and I recently used to make a little cocktail bag for my brother-in-law's girlfriend. I had enough material and trim to make two so I…

Extravagant, Audacious, Outrageous, Amazing Grace

This year the challenge I have given myself is to make, at least, three new banners for my church. The last series of banners were made in 1992 and are looking a little dated now. I am working on them at my independant study days with Committed to Cloth. I…

Stitching with Intent

This year I am taking a different textile course, 'Stitching with Intent' which is run by Committed to Cloth. We have had our first session and we also had a pre-first session meeting both at Chequer Mead Arts Centre in East Grinstead. Chequer Mead is a great venue with a huge studio…

Committed to Cloth – Session 10

Here are the pictures from the last Wet n' Wild class which was in November 2010! I finished off some fabric I am going to use in the church banners I will be making in 2011. I printed lots of lobsters from the thermofax screen I had made from my…

Committed to Cloth – Session 9

The penultimate session of Wet 'n Wild! We worked on our own pieces and I moved on my violet breakdown print, put some marks on my small discharge pieces (which I had accidentally left for too long in the Thiox vat!) and started two new pieces of fabric which will…

Committed to Cloth – Sessions 7 and 8

A bit of a catch-up with my Wet 'n Wild textile course. In July I fabric painted flowers on my tray dyed fabric.As the weather was hot I attempted another breakdown print and was very pleased with the results. We had August off and in September we learned the technique…

Committed to Cloth – Session 5

The month of May brought breakdown printing. We did this technique as it was a lovely, warm day and the screens need to dry before you use can use them.Screen being prepared.Dribbly screen.Demonstration of breakdown printing. Students screens drying. My breakdown printing ready for batching, rinsing and washing.Screen printing spirals.Beautiful…

Committed to Cloth – Session 4

Session 4 was all about resists! We learned about using soy wax, washable PVC and freezer paper to mask off areas of cloth which could then be printed.I brushed a piece with soy wax and then brushed on thin procion dye in scarlet and magenta.I spent the rest of the…

Committed To Cloth – Session 2

At session 2 of Wet 'n Wild we did part 2 of the family dyeing. I am really pleased with the palette of cloth that this created; golden yellow, violet, purple, dark brown, twelve related colours in total.The rest of the session was taken up with tray dyeing. For my…

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