The fabric for this is a linen mix, I cut a stencil from an Ireland Quidditch logo that I found online, to make the front. The bag is lined with recycled fabric that I had tie-dyed and over printed with a lino cut of the golden snitch. Go Ireland!
Monday, November 20, 2017
Boro Bag- so many stitches
Boro is a Japanese repair and decoration technique. Many many tiny stitches. I used the technique to make this bag out of scrap, the bag fabric is made of squares glued down and long lines of parallel stitching secures all the patches. I did some cross stitching for decoration and then cut the fabric into a bag.
Recycling sweaters
This is the second 'sweater quilt' Here in Ireland we call them jumpers. I cut approx 12 inch (30cm) squares, keeping any interesting features, especially pockets.
All the squares are sewn together and the top is backed with fleecy blanket that is wrapped around the raw edge of the quilt and sewn down. The entire quilt is tied together at the corners of each square, with ties. I love recycling!
All the squares are sewn together and the top is backed with fleecy blanket that is wrapped around the raw edge of the quilt and sewn down. The entire quilt is tied together at the corners of each square, with ties. I love recycling!
Some of the books that I have made recently
I love this flamingo fabric, so I had to make a book. I also added some random papers inside of the covers, as I like something interesting to pop up occasionally.
The book is stitched signatures, with fabric covering the greyboard covers. Stuck with PVA
I have also been volunteering to teach a craft class to a local group of refugees, the organisation does not have much money, so I am trying to supply all the materials, and scrounge what I can. We made these books last week, the covers are leftover boat cover materials, the pages are photocopy paper and the whole lot is stitched together with strong thread and a button as a closure. All done in 2 hours
Summer tie dyeing
The following prints have all been printed onto tie dyed fabrics, some are commercial rubber stamps, the bees and daleks are my lino cuts.
Such a neglected blog. Here are a few things that I have made in the last while.
Some printed fabrics
This is a simple dalek print, A lino cut onto some tie-dyed fabric, The strips of fabric were inserted into a pair of pillowcases. For Dr, Who dreams. The same fabric was used to make a christmas stocking. The tardis stocking was appliqued, as a matching set.
napkins printed with a martlet, for medieval re-enactment
Celtic knotwork crow. Corvids are amazing, this was another lino cut onto fabric, strips inserted into a pair of pillowcases
The ground fabric has been tie-dyed and overprinted with a fairly simple lino cut. Celtic knotwork
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