this little quilt is what I finally figured out how I wanted to use the shibori that I made in Robbie's class at Beth's house in FLA.  I fused it on the tie-dye background I also made at that time.  As always, I don't know how it should be quilted (I hate the quilting part; I always figure I'll ruin it with the quilting after all my hard work making it).  Any ideas??????  Help????????

Layers In Our Work

Talking about complexity:
 "layer upon layer upon layer as in our life and in our art as well."

Beth's Challenge - I used oil pastels to do this - still need to add water to blend them.

I thought that I wouldn't use up the 5'x7' mural cyanotype fabric for a while, but I'm having way too much fun sun printing!  Was amazed with these leaves in the  top photo how much detail I got....love it!

Another experiment....wondered what would happen if I used bubble wrap....cloudy today so I left it about 40 minutes -- not as clear, but it did make an impression.

Holey rubarb leaf, Batman....this sun print came out really cool...also tried that rug gripper stuff....the hot sun fried my cool leaf...maybe I can save it to use again! ???

Sunprinting with pre-treated cyanotype fabric and mostly stencil girl stencils.

"This is info from an email Beth sent out on using Cyanotype fabric:

If the stencil is clear or lightly frosted it will give you poor results. The stencil must be OPEC for the sun to work. Gosh look at Siri😆 "oh pig"😆😆😆 this is killing me. Siri needs coffee☕️☕️☕️ now! So before we started I suggest to Bonnie that we paint the back of the stencils with white craft paint so that it would block more of the sun rays ... She used to sponge which actually gave it a multitude look. It turned out cool. No directions are on the package and it doesn't state how much time you need for the sun exposure. We put clear glass to hold it flat in direct sun. We checked it after 20 minutes and it was perfect. You rinse the  fabric...the cyanotype chemical will look light green as it runs out of fabric, in cold water then you immediately put it in a solution of hydrogen peroxide and water 20/80 mixture... that stops the chemical reaction and enhances the resisted area it's amazing how white or light blue  the resisted fabric looks.but it will not work unless you use the hydrogen peroxide mixture.  The hydrogen/ water mixture intensifies and also stops the chemical reaction. Again this step is not in directions. Be sure to use a pressing cloth. You may get white specs in the dark blue area. And I have no idea what causes that. Each piece I use a pressing cloth with turns out OK.  

You can buy Cyanotype  sheets 8 x 10 in a package of 10 is $25 on Amazon.

Beth"