Feathers, lino cut, fabric printing

So this today's work, feathers this time, I cut 5 different sizes of feather, again all individually so I could play around with the arrangements, I don't love these as much as the mushrooms, but I am pretty happy with them.

 this is on a fairly coarse piece of fabric, so there is a lot of texture with the prints

 This is on yet another piece of fabric that I tie-dyed about 9 years ago...

 Dense print on a fabric that someone gave me, the colour doesn't 'read' very well on screen, it is a kind of lilac

 Close up of the same print

 A totally different arrangement, fading out to grey for the smaller prints (ink was running out!!)

Anatomical hearts lino cut on fabric

My second lino cut, anatomical hearts, Love how this one turned out!

 I tried overprinting red on black, freehanding the registration, I rather like the 3D effect that it gives.

Close up of the hearts on a preprinted piece of fabric

 And on a tyedyed piece. I dyed this one years ago and now the whole thing has a very trippy feel.

spring craft bags and purses

well I've been having major attacks of craftiness lately, the weather has been unseasonably beautiful here in Ireland all the flowers are blooming, I took some nice photographs, and interestingly when I took this one and looked at it closely I noticed two aphids trysting in the centre, what a place for a date!



with sunshine it seemed a shame not to do some tie dying , here's a photo trying to catch the colours of the sunset with the colours of the tie dye.

I have been making a lot of bags lately, but they have all been for swaps on craftster.org, so I decided it was time to make myself some, this one was made out of fabric that I received in a swap package, it was only 1/4 yard but I just managed to squeeze this little bag out of it.

This bag is for a swap, the fabric is reversible so I swapped around the central panel for contrast and added the riveted and bead detail to the front

This is more fabric I got in a swap, I love it! My girly pin-up bag!




I was looking in the Avoca handweavers shop fell in love with a very pretty skirt, but an insane price, so I made myself this version, with a matching bag.