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My finished maple leaf postcard for the CQT 2014 Postcard Exchange is now in the mail.  I used over a dozen different stitches:  chain, cretan, feather, spiderweb wheel, bullion, fly, seed, satin, stem, et. al.  I enjoyed doing this so much I'm making another one for myself :)


 I had another very, very fun play day with our Fibre Arts group recently. We experimented with marbling using shaving cream as our base.



  I put down about 2 inches thick of shaving cream and smoothed it out using a disposable plastic card.

 Drippled paint on top 


 and then swirled it with a wooden skewer.  I laid my piece of cotton on top, smoothed it down, waited maybe a minute and then peeled it off.  I waited maybe a 1/2 hour or so before scraping off the shaving cream and rinsing in water.

 Here I had scraped off the previous colour swirls, added some more shaving cream, smoothed it and played with different colours and marble design.


 After rinsing I then heat set my pieces and here are a few that I did.  I used cotton, heavy interfacing, evolon and water colour paper.


These marbled cloths we had made at a previous play marbling day using a gelatin like base and paint designed for marbling from G&S Dye.  I will use all these marbled pieces to make book covers, a pincushion or two, atc's and postcards.  It was great to play and experiment and have fun.

As Albert Einstein said:  “Play is the highest form of research.”
 Hope everyone can take some time to play.

Jeannette Luther