My Fabric Painting & Printapalooza Weekend

Warm Up to Fabric Painting Techniques

Quilting Daily — Wed, 01 May 2013 06:03:16 GMT

Where I live in New England, it gets dark at about 4:30 p.m. in the depths of winter. So when Daylight Savings Time kicks in and the snow banks start to melt, I'm itching to get outside and do some fabric painting and dyeing.

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Hoorshid — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 11:47:24 GMT

I am Hoorshid and I love your work. Thank you for sharing.

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patrichter — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 01:17:00 GMT

So cool to do and beautiful results

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corimaria — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:05:07 GMT

thank you I can not wait to try this.

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lahma — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 04:19:21 GMT

wow...i like that...tou are gorgiuse

thanks

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Linda@114 — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:18:04 GMT

Re Liquitex Acrylic Paint I used the Soft Body paint and not the Heavy and mixed 50% Liquitex fabric medium with the paint. The medium also makes the paint go further, plus I add up to 50% of water as needed for flow etc. This will not change the hand of the fabric and it will be as soft as using the Setacolors. The liquitex paint does not need to be heat set, but the Setacolors do need to be ironed to heat set them, or put in a dryer for 30 mins. I also use primary colors and mix them for both Setacolors and Liquitex, although I like to use warm and cool primary colors. i.e. lemon yellow and golden yellow. Suns out here today, maybe time to paint!

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coollabtech1 — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:53:51 GMT

Love the sunprinting. I have done some with the Setacolor paints too and they worked great. I also tried the transparent Liquitex Heavy Body acrylics since they have a wide range of colors and they worked nicely too(although they do change the hand of the fabric). Love the bug stamp and I definitely need to order some of the stencils. I found that an office supply store is a great source of items for sunprinting, with my favorite being spiral paperclips!

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2Victory — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:39:59 GMT

i love this! a friend and i are going creative camping and i am so excited about this idea as a project. my only question is about setting the paint. will the fact that it is out in the sun be enough to set it or will we need to iron it? i will be using the setacolor paints.

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Linda@114 — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:35:49 GMT

I love your dog bone treats idea. I wish it was sunny here today I'd run outside right away. I have used the setacolor paints before and have just finished a large quilt with a landscape background using these paints. However, I have also used Liquitex Acrylic Paint in a variety of ways and one of these is sunprints. I used wildflowers and it worked just great. I'm really turning to these paints for all sorts of uses as they don't have to be heat set and once dry you can add other colors on top. I love your magazine. Keep up the good work.

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CarolineA — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 02:22:21 GMT

That looks like so much fun - now I just have to wait for summer to hit the southern hemisphere! Love the cat! I have one that looks very similar, except she would be climbing the drying fabrics - not at all well-behaved!

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dfmrobinson — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:50:01 GMT

Handsome QC Louie and laid back Dickens :)

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dfmrobinson — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:49:02 GMT

Handsome GQ Louie and laid back Dickens... :)

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MellyT — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:59:39 GMT

Wow! An all day class, fantastic job! Love the stencil prints. The fly fabric is GREAT. So glad your companimals are keeping track of your forays too!

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SomethingLisa — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 02:24:24 GMT

Nice! Sounds like a very fun class Pokey! I love how crazy you got with finding objects around the house to sunprint with. I have a bag of keys I've used for sunprinting. I'll have to try some of your ideas as well!

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Barbara Triscari — Tue, 31 May 2011 18:51:59 GMT

Love all the photos and ideas you had of items to print with! So wishing I could come take your class! Thanks for sharing!