Escape! Sun printing, Desigual inspired shirt and making faces!

I have had a blissful weekend away with friends and sewed till after midnight. BLISS!!!!! Here is a quilt I made a while ago. The colour squares are made with sun printing using transparent fabric paint and then placed in the sun after laying on leaves to create the patterns. As the fabric dries, the area beneath the mask loses colour. how cool is that?

I decided that I wanted to add some free machine quilting to it so I used black thread and machined over the coloured squares fast, loose and free. GREAT fun!!

I will post a picture of it when I have added a hanging sleeve to it

Here is a face in the making for another project and as a teaching sample for my Fabric Faces

 day school.

 

I enjoyed adding stuff to my Desigual inspired shirt. Here is a cupcake recipe...This was Hilary's idea. Fun isn't it?

and the cupcakes of course, all sparkled up with blingy bits....

I have added a little more stamping to the front and a splattering of beads and sequins....so I think it must be nearly finished!!

I will post my shirt when I have added the last few bits then I'm going to have a lot of fun wearing it!
See you soon
Moira x

 

 

Desigual Inspired Shirt

I have been having great fun. Yesterday I made a start on embellishing an old F&F shirt that I was bored with. I bought a Desigual shirt last summer when I was in Barcelona and decided that I could have fun printing and machining on one of my old shirts

Here it is before I started....

I tore out a paper stencil and added this heart using acrylic paint......

On the other side I used a textured roller to add a background to work on....

The shirt so far.....

Next, some applique stars, a zig-zaggy thing and the word 'create'

 

Then I rollered up the paint left on the glass plate to make this background. Stamped it with black acrylic paint and machined it down using three rows of back free machine stitching trapping a few torn pieces of my hand dyed fabric in the process.....

 

 

 

and slapped on some flowery things.....

then it was time to free machine a few words around the heart....

and add a few words to the other side.....

 

And that is as far as I have got!

 

I'm off to Grafham Water for a weekend away and hope to get it finished while I'm there. I'm planning on lots of beads and sequins to add colour and glitz!

I'll share when it is finished

M x