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November 6, 2023
Wat een leuke Workshop! from Quilting Trui

 Tyvek en lutrador...wie kent het niet? Nou....ik dus. Had géén idee wat het was en wat je er allemaal mee kunt doen.

Maar sinds vorige week dus wel. Het zijn non-woven materialen, eigenlijk geen stof, maar je kunt het wél als zodanig behandelen. Zoals verven of met de naaimachine bewerken.

Maar óók met een heatgun of strijkbout of......soldeerbout.

Isabelle Weissler is een hele enthousiast docent, die ons in 2 dagen ontzéttend veel geleerd heeft. Ik heb véél inspiratie opgedaan om er mee aan het werk te gaan en iets moois te creëren. Hoe en wàt weet ik ...

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March 17, 2023
Unnatural Fabrics from The Snarky Quilter

I don’t know if that’s the proper term for fabrics that aren’t made from naturally derived materials such as cotton and linen. I don’t like the term man made, with its inherent bias, but fabrics developed from polyester often are called that. Here I’m talking about tyvek, evolon, lutrador, and the like. Why am I talking about them? A recent SAQA seminar on such fabrics reminded me of my own efforts to use such stuff.

Part of the seminar was a video conversation with Shannon Conley, an artist who cheerfully tackles all sorts of three ...

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November 6, 2017
"Apple in a Thicket" - Mounted Art Quilt from Linda's Art Quilts

Just turned this up in one of my "unfinished objects" trunks.  It is a 12”square art quilt with hand painted apple surrounded by heat altered Tyvek snippets in my stash of to-do works. The apple was finished with a layer of very high gloss acrylic medium. The dimensionality the gloss provides is not apparent in the photo.  At first I thought that I would finish it with a hanging sleeve and label; however, I changed my mind and am going to mount it on a stretched canvas.
Always remember, never fear to experiment.  
Sometimes wonderful things happen.
© Linda Friedman ...

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