December journal quilt December moon I got up early one morning when the moon was full and the fields covered in frost, full of reflected light and shadow. The hand dyed foreground has been stitched, rolled over with white acrylic paint and then slashed between the stitching, cut away in places to reveal the layers...
Author: Cherry Hirsch
Leaf prints
I’ve been struggling to get really good leaf prints on fabric and have done a lot more reading on the web. My latest experiments have been on cloth I soaked overnight in ash water and with leaves I have placed into a weak solution of ferrous sulphate. This has worked well in getting good prints,...
November journal quilt
Layers of decay There are a lot of leaves still hanging on the trees, there is colour there too, but those on the ground are disintegrating into muddy piles with all the rain we have had. The background is a piece of leaf printed fabric, overprinted with leaf shapes cut from compressed foam, using acrylic...
Eco book
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...
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...