Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Short holiday!

Have been away for a few days at one of our favorite spots - Port Vincent. It was very cold but we had a couple of lovely sunny days. These fellows are always hanging about waiting for all the fish guts at the fish cleaning station. They are so ungainly on their feet but so graceful when they fly overhead.

I have invisibly basted one of my bleached moons ready for stitching. The moon was done on a piece of fabric that was sun dyed with leaves many years ago. It has a piece of spotty navy Japanese cotton and a gold coloured shot cotton behind it. To me it looks as if you are looking through a window at the full moon, which we did last night! Have got no idea how I'm going to stitch it yet so I have basted some moons ready to do some experimental stitches.

And just to show you that all my bleaching experiments weren't perfect, here are some of the disasters! Good fun trying though.
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9 comments:

  1. deanna7treesMay 18, 2011 at 12:52 PM

    that moon piece is wonderful. and i LOVE your 'disasters'. i see a beast in that bottom, right one. all they need are some stitches.

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  2. AnonymousMay 18, 2011 at 1:50 PM

    Oh my goodness, oh my goodness! I LOVE this! I think you must do a tutorial for us please please! I gasped when I saw that glorious blue fabric with the leaf prints on it! Amazing Deb!

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  3. JuliannMay 18, 2011 at 11:26 PM

    I have had so much fun with the bleaching too. What are you using to back the moons you have basted?

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  4. judeMay 18, 2011 at 11:47 PM

    looks great, the disasters are only a state of mind.

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  5. lindaMay 19, 2011 at 9:44 AM

    i believe these "disasters" are showing lots of potential!

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  6. DebMay 19, 2011 at 1:04 PM

    Kerri, I already had the piece of fabric with the leaves on it. It's been sun dyed (Cyanotype) and then I bleached a moon on it following Jude's instructions.
    Juliann, the fabric is cotton lawn. Very thin as Jude suggests.

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  7. NancyMay 19, 2011 at 1:58 PM

    Are you kidding? I love the disasters bunches!

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  8. AnonymousMay 20, 2011 at 5:34 PM

    Did you make the cyanotype yourself?

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  9. DebMay 21, 2011 at 3:44 PM

    Kerri, no I didn't. It was given to me after a friend died a few years ago and she probably made it about 20 years ago! I think it involves nasty chemicals, but you can do something similar with fabric dyes.

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