More Silk Fusion
This morning I attacked both classes that I am currently taking on line - Silk Fusion at joggles.com and Tea Stain Dyeing at Quilt University. So far I am really pleased with both classes! This post will be about the silk fusion progress. Later I will post the results of my first day of tea dyeing.
These silk fusion sheets are really quick to make so I decided to do two more last night so they would be dry this morning. Here are the two sheets that I made last night. This time I hung them to dry and I like the results much better!
Next we were supposed to make a envelope and a pocket tissue holder. They are really neat looking items but I don't have much use for either so I wanted to come up with something else. I decided that I would need a journal of some kind for my tea dyeing samples so I decided to use one of my silk fusion sheets for that. At first I was going to make one of Sue Bleiweiss' padfolio. Those things are really cool but I wasn't sure that it would work well for the tea journal. I'll make the padfolio later. For the time being, here's what I developed.
It will be assembled like an old fashioned scrapbook but the binding will be at the top. The front is the one piece of fusion that I didn't like so much, fused to Timtex. Next I fused on scraps of the tea bag to spell out "tea", covered it lightly in several colors of Angelina and then did some decorative stitching. The fabric used on the inside and the back is the piece on the right - something that I dyed and stamped a few years ago. It complimented the fusion piece perfectly! So, I'm going to call lesson one done!
Outstanding Vicki - nicely done!
Posted by: Sue B | February 17, 2007 at 04:02 PM
Very pretty and a good start on your lessons!
Posted by: Debra Spincic | February 17, 2007 at 06:12 PM
Wow, this looks great. I'm enjoying seeing your progress in this class.
Posted by: Terri | February 17, 2007 at 06:30 PM
The silk fusion is really fascinating. Using them for a journal for your tea dye samples is a great way to keep track of everything and make something beautiful at the same time.
Posted by: Lori | February 17, 2007 at 07:34 PM
WoW I love that journal. Its going to look brilliant with all your samples inside.
Posted by: Lynda | February 18, 2007 at 12:30 AM
The tea bag scraps look fantastic! What a wonderful idea. Your silk fusion samples are gorgeous - lovely colours.
Posted by: Dianne | February 18, 2007 at 06:32 PM
Beautiful! I love the colors you chose. I found your link on Sue B's blog and thought I'd come see for myself.
Posted by: Leigh | February 20, 2007 at 12:31 AM
My goodness you've been busy! It's like a whirlwind - everything looks wonderful! I'm enjoying all your experiments!
Posted by: Sarah | February 23, 2007 at 02:24 PM