Weeks 31-35

Week 31, 27 eT

 Since my birthday is on the 27th, I am obsessed with the # 27.

The green swirl is the last letter of my first name, and the first letter of my last name
as I sign it in my signature

I used silk and sheers

Week 32, The 70's

This patch had been donated to me and several months ago, if not years, I had

made the patch into this small quilt

The colors and feel of the fabrics reminded me so much of my childhood

I decided to repurpose it using a variety of surface design techniques

I painted on it

Used bubble wrap to stamp patterns on it

Used paint sticks and fabric gel pens to decorate the piece

Then I appliqued some fabric, sheers, and scraps of netting

Adding final touches with some stitching

This piece was a whole lot of fun to work on.

I tried to be spontaneous and not over think any design choices

Wk 33, Peace

Artist Maggie Weiss presented a thermafax workshop at her beautiful studio

in Evanston for Illinois SDA members

Here she is running an image through the machine

This creates a screen so the image can be reproduced many times

Here we are making our prints

Maggie explains the different paints to us

I made several prints and made them into small postcards

I accidentally printed on the wrong side, so I screened a peace the correct way

This is to remind you to live with peace inside and outside yourself

Close up of stitching

Wk 34, Maneater

I had so much fun repurposing that patch (I have 3 of them) I decided to do another one.

When I was about 10 I crawled into my brother's bunk bed and decided to see what

listening to music was like. I turned on the clock radio and the song

Maneater by  Hall & Oates was playing.

I listened for a while and decided that music made no sense, a woman can't eat a man.

I turned the radio off deciding music was not for me.

I used several surface design techniques on this piece too.
I now need to have the radio on at all times and love music.