Studio Spring Clean

The art room has gotten into a terrible mess. Fabrics and scraps littered over every surface including the floor, screen prints taking over the drying rack and half finished experiments everywhere. I took about 12 hours to clean it up again, add some more storage furniture and sort out all the scraps. Here is the before and after:

Before - That table on the right is supposed to be for cutting fabric on!

After with all the scraps sorted

The painting area covered in paint, prints and stencils.

After - wow you can see the floor!

The Colour of Music

My challenge quilt "The Colour of Music" is now finished with echo quilting around the figure and free motion quilting on the face and clothes.

The Colour of Music - Quilt Top

The quilt top for my challenge is just about finished. I've added this quote by Maria Christina Mena. Next I will add the quilting...

Deconstructed Screen Prints Again!

There were a few scraps of dye left at the bottom of the jar to use up on a few more screen prints. It's amazing how far it goes! These are all on paper. There are a couple of fabric ones still drying so there's going to be a least one more post for you before I go onto something else.

Rainbow Dyes

I had a tiny amount of fabric left so I used up the last scraps with some hand dyeing.

The Colour of Music - Work in Progress

I'm working on this small quilt for our group challenge.

First I drew the girl and shaded her with Neocolour II crayons (see below). I activated the colour with textile medium. The piano piece was painted separately using acrylics. The head will be sewn and cut out and mounted on a rainbow background.