Since the last fabric bowl didn’t end up turning out so well, I’m taking what I learned and starting over. This time I want a bit more texture on the surface so I made a sheet of fabric paper using tissue paper and cheesecloth. I’ve added the stitching directly to the fabric paper … … […]
Fabric Bowl – starting over Read More »
After spending the better part of yesterday working on my fabric bowl, I got up this morning and realized that I have gone about as far as I can with this particular sample. It started here with a basic fabric bowl/plate design. and then some stitching was added Then came the paint. And some highlighting
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Is your needle felting machine stuck in the corner gathering dust? It’s time to drag it out and explore all the wonderful and amazing things you can do with it! Felt-Punch-Embellish: Basics – eBook Felt-Punch-Embellish: Basics is a 24-page downloadable tutorial covering some basic techniques and tutorials to get you started using your needle felting
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Today I got a little more work done on the fabric bowl that I started the other day. As I mentioned, this is an intuitive work-in-progress which means that I have no clue how it’s going to end up, and at this point I have no design or pattern sketched out apart from the plate-shape.
It feels like ages since I did any real sewing – the creative sewing you do because you can’t not do it which is different from the sewing you do because you have to. But I’ve had this idea in my head for a while now to design a fabric plate-like vessel – don’t ask
Creating and designing fabric bowls with Peltex Stabilizer Read More »
Photoshop textures are something you can never have enough of. It doesn’t matter how many I have, very often I just never seem to have the right texture in the right color so I’m always on the look out for ways to create custom photoshop textures – quickly and easily – and I was excited
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