This was a custom order that I recently shipped to a customer. Serenity is one of my favorite designs and I just love the color; it’s very peaceful and calming.
At the moment I’m only taking custom orders through my Etsy store which you can find here, but I’ll shortly be moving it all over to my brand new website called Linda Matthews Designs. Very exciting. Stay tuned.
Quilting on fabric treated with digital grounds is not difficult – once you know how of course – and today I’ve finally finished the project I began last week.
I began by using one of my digital art designs printed onto fabric treated with digital grounds and then machine quilted and hand embellished it. You can see my progress here and here.
I thought about making a wall hanging, but I *love* making purses and bags so there was really no hard decision to make. I really love the way it turned out.
A little bit of embellishment on the closure.
Some decorative machine stitching and machine quilting.
Want to know more?
You can find LOTS of information about digital grounds here and also on my Exploring Digital Grounds on Fabric DVD.
Or just try Digital Grounds for yourself; the sample pack is quite inexpensive and ideal for beginners, and for online purchasing I recommend DickBlick.com. Find out why.
The other day I showed you how using digital grounds to prepare your fabric can help stop the ink bleed when printing on certain types of fabric. You can find that post here.
The fabric has been treated with digital grounds to enhance the inkjet print, and although the hand of the fabric has a slightly stiffer feel to it, it is still quite soft and workable and I’ve added some machine quilting to outline the seed pods.
I can report that during quilting I had no broken needles and no broken threads; there was no discernible difference between quilting on this piece of fabric treated with digital grounds than any other piece of untreated fabric. Why? Because there are three different types of digital grounds and knowing which type to use for a particular fabric makes all the difference.
I’ve also added some hand embellishments – some french knots, a few seed stitches and some beads. It was also very easy to hand embellish.
Want to know more?
You can find LOTS of information about digital grounds here as well as my Exploring Digital Grounds on Fabric” DVD.
Or just try Digital Grounds for yourself; the sample pack is quite inexpensive and ideal for beginners, and for online purchasing I recommend DickBlick.com. Find out why.
With the Digital Grounds Online Class happening shortly (note – registration for this online class is now closed), I’ve been working up some extra class samples to show my students just how versatile and effective using digital grounds can be when printing on fabric.
One of the questions I get asked the most is whether or not you can quilt on fabric treated with digital grounds. I’ve also read a lot of complaints about people having problems sewing on it by hand or machine and I even hear statements by others saying not to use it if you’re wanting to sew or quilt on it. The reality is you can in fact sew and quilt very easily on fabric treated with digital grounds. Let’s have a look.
For this sample I chose a soft fabric to print on, not quite sheer, not quite silk, because I want to both machine quilt and hand embellish it. It’s some sort of poly-silk. I could have used a cotton fabric but I have ten yards of this stuff that I bought some years ago, the reason of course long forgotten.
I prepared the fabric with digital grounds and printed my image. You can see by the way it drapes that even after applying digital grounds and printing on it, the fabric is still very soft. This is because there are three different types of digital grounds to choose from and knowing which one to use for your particular application makes all the difference in the world.
So while I was printing I always like to do a comparison, so these next photos show you the difference between printing on treated fabric and untreated fabric.
The treated fabric has crisp clean edges, fine detail and beautiful colors.
Using the same photo printer settings, on the untreated fabric the ink has bled distorting the image and the colors.
Even adjusting the printer settings to standard print doesn’t improve the result.
So now for a little hand embellishment and machine quilting. Stay tuned for the results because you know I’ll tell it like it is 
Want to know more?
You can find LOTS of information about digital grounds here and also on my Exploring Digital Grounds on Fabric DVD.
Or just try Digital Grounds for yourself; the sample pack is quite inexpensive and ideal for beginners, and for online purchasing I recommend DickBlick.com. Find out why.
Please enjoy a rerun of my experiments with digital grounds; this is where it all began …
I’ve been putting some strange stuff through the printer these last few weeks. This one is crackle paste on fabric. I really like both the crackle effect and the results of the printed image. Crackle paste of course is usually used in mixed media applications, but I found it worked just as well on fabric. My little Geisha Girl thinks so too.
You can see the comparison …
On the left, printed on untreated crackle paste. On the right, printed on crackle paste with an application of digital grounds. What a difference!
If you want to know more about digital grounds, you’ll find a ton of information here.
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