Fab Fabric Bowls

I made a couple fabric bowls years and years ago, and finally got around to making them again after being inspired by some I saw last weekend. After many hours of wrapping 1/2 inch wide fabric strips around cording, and only about 20 minutes per bowl sewing, I have my first 2 bowls! 

Sorry for the crummy pics--can't find my digital camera after our trip for Christmas, so snapped these with my cell phone. Better IMPERFECT than not doing it at all, right? 

Maybe I'll try some coasters next, or even an area rug?  Great way to use scraps!

Fabric Art Workshop

I have been working through the lessons and techniques presented in the book "Fabric Art Workshop" by Susan Stein on the Artists of the Round Table group. These are some of the exercises I have done:

Copper paint applied with a brayer to black fabric

Cardboard rubbing plate

Monoprint on black

Monoprint from lasagna dyed fabric

Lasagna dyed fabric--this is actually a piece of satin with diluted acrylic paint--had to use what I had on hand!

More Handmade Books

These are two more books that I made with a combination of paper and fabric. The top book is fabric collage, and the bottom book is mostly paper collage, with a little bit of fabric. The inside pages are all hand painted like the previous books.