Working With Sheers

This time I haven’t been procratinating, I have just been busy like the rest of you with Christmas and all that………… [Thank you very much to those of you who wrote me privately to enquire if I was all right.]

For my on-line C&Gs course I had to work with “sheers” - both fabric and transfer paints. The fabrics ones will be quilted at a later date.

This is my sheers drawer. I have collected for years, but only used a little. I have recently bought a couple of clear [sheer?] chests of drawers for all my goodies and it makes it so much easier that I can actually see what I have without having to pull out all the drawers.

I didn’t have any sheer cotton for the backing [that I could find], so I used silk instead. I might live to regret this. I made the blue/cold colours first, and found the pinning down taking much longer than the actual cutting and placing the squares. The whole thing came alive and the bits kept shifting.

The netting on top

Work in progress.

So for the yellow/warm colours I choose to bond with Mistyfuse®. But because I’m not used to this product [yet], it took me the same amount of time as the other one. 1 hour each. Looking forward to quilting them. I love squares on squares.

Transfer painting is a completely new activity to me and much fun. One evening I painted some pieces of paper in the colours yellow, violet and ultramarine. The next day I cut these into smaller squares and rectangles. It turned out that I didn’t have any polycotton in the house, and rather that wasting time driving to town and buying some, I have used Lutrador®. Wonderful stuff. I have learned to use it in a class with Ineke Berlyn. 

I made the two first pieces simultaneously, leaving the iron on one piece, while arranging more pieces on the other. It was only when I photographed them, that I discovered that I had mixed up my two pieces of backing parchment, so some blue colour had transfered to the violet/yellow piece. The yellow/violet is done on thick lutrador, the yellow/blue on thin lutrador.

And then just for fun I photographed all three on top of each other.