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FABRIC JOURNALS-TELLING STORIES, CHANGING LIVES
A combination of all the mixed-media fabric techniques you’ve ever wanted to try, in tiny Art Quilts or Journals. For these small collages in fiber, we’ll play with photo-transfer on cloth, beading, painting, appliqué, piecing, embroidery, and much more, with patterns and examples to create your own Fabric Journal or Art Quilt: It’s All About Me: Creative Selfishness and Anti-Depressant Journal, Playing with Colors, My (Mom, Grandmother, Favorite Writer) Immortalized, Hot Flash, Technique Samples, or a topic of your choice. We’ll even throw in some Artist Trading Cards for good measure—the basic techniques are very similar. They’re collages, tiny art quilts, and a way to express your own Personal Stories all in one! You don’t have to be an Artist or an expert seamstress to enjoy this play with fiber, color, texture, and ideas.
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—a hand-sewing kit, including scissors, pins, needles--some with large eyes
—one square yard or a roll of thin quilt batting (garment-weight)
—a selection of fabric scraps--all kinds, a yard or more of light-weight iron on interfacing
—a yard or more of Heat ‘n Bond or other double-sided heat-bonding agent
—a yard or more of stiffener, like buckram, Timtex, or heavy interfacing
—UHU glue stick or Eileenne’s Tacky Glue and a stronger glue, like WeldBond
—fabric paint, Lumiere, acrylic paint, rubber stamps and inks, Fabrico pens, Sharpies
—felt, upholstery fabric, lace fringe, ric-rac, photo-transfer images on cloth
—acrylic gel medium (matt or gloss)
—a cheap flat brush around 1” wide
—playing cards, stickers, photocopies, thin metal
—paper fasteners, grommets and setting tool, rivets, mesh, tulle, glitter
—a working sewing machine if you have one, a cutting mat, rotary cutter (optional)
—six small glossy magazine images
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