Back to the Scrap Bag

There are still lots of scraps left in that one small bag. I have been back to it and chosen some hand dyed scraps and pulled out some leftover pieces of wadding.

I know not all of you will have an needle felter/embellisher machine but it is my latest toy and I enjoy playing with it. If you don't have one there are lots of ideas for creating backgrounds with strips here.

Using the embellisher is a great way of creating backgrounds and using up scraps really quickly.

You just have to be careful about which fabrics you use. I had planned to add this piece of commercial fabric but I could tell that the needles were not happy by the noise they were making. When it is noisy it is best to stop before the needles break!

Back to the hand dyes!

Three backgrounds prepared in under an hour!

What to do next?

P.S. Thank you to everyone who came to my workshop at Busy Bees on Saturday. I was so engrossed in what we were doing I forgot to take any photos. It was a good day which was thankfully not hindered by the fact that the crate I was carrying the paint bottles in collapsed on my way in! No paint spilt at all! :)

Playing with Scraps

Not much fabric painting going on here at the moment. It is just so wet and cold, meaning slow drying times, so I have decided to wait for the warmer weather. It is coming isn't it!!

Time to do something else.

This particular bag of scraps has been following me around for years now; and I do mean years. The scraps in it are almost entirely bits of previously completed projects. Some may say they should have been chucked but....

This is the bag tipped out.

Sorted into colours...sort of.

There seems to be a lot of green, and so that's what I am attacking first.

There is a mixture of batiks and hand painted greens, and the pieces were more or less in strips so I have laid them onto a piece of fusible batting and ironed them down.

The hand painted pieces have been stamped with some commercial and home made stamps (and I have absolutely no memory of doing them, or what they were for!)

More to come.