I had another session steam printing paper with plant material and decided to make a book from them. First I followed a suggestion by the author of the website dipandstain.blogspot to dip my sheets in a bath of washing soda – one cup hot water in which to disolve one teaspoon of soda, plus one...
Month: October 2014
October Journal quilt
An abundance of perry pears There is a steady thud as the pears hit the ground. Unfortunately the local farmer is not making perry this year and when I tried to juice some with my cheap juice maker it was not successful. The background fabric is lightly dyed cotton/linen sheeting that I had rollered over...
More fun with tissue paper
This is really quite addictive! I’ve been playing around with it for the last week or so, trying out various ideas. This is a fairly large landscape which I have framed with black mount board in a black frame. I stuck crumpled brown tissue paper on to paper, which I then bleached. I applied colour...