Ink on fabric

Tutorial | How to write on Fabric by Raleigh Calligraphy

Experimentation

Jason Logan's new book is a how-to guide on natural ink making

How to make a Flour-paste crackle effect.

For as long as women have been sewing, they've been using embroidery to tell their own stories—often in societies that refuse to hear them otherwise.

2014 was a very busy year for me... work, wedding and planning incomming changes for 2015 (and some major changes in my personnal life are comming, oh my...). I didn't sew much, but I'm very happy that I finished one art quilt and started another, that I started designing PP patterns again after the wedding and I've prepared 4 projects for quilting magazines. Quilting resolutions for 2015: - finishing second art quilt and submitting it to quilt show in Birmingham - working on PP patterns…

Does bleach scare you? It scares me! Now that you were brave enough to get past the title of this post, I’m excited to tell you about my adventures dyeing fabric with bleach. The effect is si…

painting my fabric banner I love Pinterest for the convenience of collecting and organizing ideas. I usually have several project going on at once. For all the projects actually going on at a work station in my art room, there are several more projects going on in my head. While working on a design for my event booth, I've pulled together colors and textures that represent me as an artist. Because I love nature so much, it seems appropriate that nature should be reflected in how I represent…

Tea is rich with tannin (good for gripping onto fabric), is inexpensive, and attaches well to cotton and linen. It typically gives you a light brown color if you don’t use any color modifiers. You can use an iron modifier on the fabric after you dye it with the tea, which will shift your colors to grey, and increase our fabric’s color- and lightfastness. At the iron sulfate stage, you will be able to experiment with different dipping and folding techniques to create patterns on your fabric.