Monday, 21 July 2014

Textile treasures

Recently I attended a workshop with Lisa Walton from Dyed and Gone to Heaven. We dyed fabric and then added some stencilling to the fabric and painted designs onto the fabric.

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The last day we started to put the fabric pieces together, it was sort of like putting a jigsaw together, this is what my finished piece looks like, now it needs to have some stitching on it to tame down some of the colours in it.

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The colours remind me of the poem by Dorothea Mackellar “My Country” the land of drought, flooding rains and then the fires that are so much a part of rural life.

3 comments:

  1. The colours and patterns you achieved are amazing, Marilyn! They look different again when they are chopped up and put into a quilt. Well done.

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  2. Absolutely awesome! I agree witn you, the colors you have managed to create also remind me of the diversity of the Aussie outback.

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  3. A good finish there Marilyn, I love your end result. No, the colors are not too bright. Mine is much more "organic" than yours, I shall bring it one day to show.

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