'My 1st Textile Art Commission!'

by Mary Lou 'LuLu' Haynes

Howdy and Welcome,
Here are W-I-P pix from the textile art commission I completed last Friday. This is the prototype wearable art for fitness dance instuctors.

My approach to this project was to think of it as a quilt sandwich - with top, batting, backing and quilting.

iTop badge - paper test

Left: 12 luxury fabrics - cut into 3" squares, and labled with their placement positions

Right: iTop tool and iTop badge - fabric test

'Sandwich' Layers - squared up for trimming

Sandwich - trimmed and ready for 'hemming'

(Turns out that I did not use the fancy white and gold trim or the travel quilting iron)

Hemmd quilt sandwich - ready for trimming, and my signature on reverse

Supplies List

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Acrylic paints - various golds, Aluminum repair tape, Baggies,

Basic Grey Notch & Die cutting tool, Die cutting machine (Big Shot),

Brass grommets, Brass Stencil, Cutting mats (Fiskars 2-sided Craft), Olfa Rotary - 36" x 24"),

Embossing folders, Embossing stylus,

Fabrics (Cottons, Emroidered Satin Brocades, Linen, Silk, Velvet),

Fusible web (Steam-a-seam, Stitch Witchery),

Galaxy marker, Glitter, Gold Leaf - faux,

Golden Soft Gel medium (semi-gloss), Gel pens, Heat/craft sheet (Ranger),

Hammer, Iron (Hamilton Beach Professional steam), Iron on hem tape,

 iTop tool, iTop backings, iTop badges,

JoAnns EZView Press cloth, JoAnns Teflon Pressing sheet,

Lighting (OttLite Craft Caddy Light, Magnifying lamp with storage base),

Needle tool, Sakura Pens (Gel, Glitter), Pins, Pin cushion - vintage tomato,

Pinking shears - vintage, Punches - circles,

Quilting rulers, Reading glasses, Recycled clear divided salad plates (Dominicks),

Remote control for iPod docking station/radio, Run 'n Buff - gold,

Rotary cutter, Tassels / napkin rings - gold (Domestications),

Tattered Florals 'Bigz' die (Tim Holtz Alterations), Scissors (Fiskars),

THE FOLDWAY: Portable Cutting and Pressing Station (Omnigrid),

Sharpie marker - black, Water spritzer bottle, Xyron 'X' sticker maker - perm,

Zig silver pigment ink pen

The happy client!

Since 2001, I've been a scrapbooker. So this textile art was a GI-norm-ous stetch for me! I did a lot of problem solving on this commission. It was challenging - and fun to play outside of my comfort zone!


Do you sew with a machine - or by hand? Have you ever made art from fabric? Have you ever made art journals with fabric? Lace? Have you attempted Quilts? I aspire to making Crazy Quilt tops someday....


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Peace,
LuLu

'WOYWW - 02/09/11 Ready Set Go!'

by Mary Lou 'LuLu' Haynes

Howdy and welcome,

For Whats On Your Workstation Wednesday, I'm showing a rare site - my tidy table! I've been trying very hard to make this space work for me.

 Tidy workstation - ready for next project

 The color section in this photo is 'the current project' rack. But it's full of stuff to be filed.

Over the past few months, I just threw stuff on the rack. Now it's time to sort and organize,

so that the rack can be used for it's intended purpose -

notes, sketches, ideas and inspirations for 'The Current Project'.

These are clear plastic bins for sorting 'stuff' on the current project rack. There is a 3rd rack to the right - not pictured. These are lids from some kitchen storage containers.

This week I'll be sorting the 'stuff'.

MY EFFICIENCY CHALLENGE

Becuase I'm ambidexterous, my work process use tools and supplies from both the left-hand and the right-hand sides of the table. It's not the right-to-left process or left-to-right process, normally recommended for efficient work spaces. Being ambidexterous makes it challenging to setup my 'ideal' efficient workstation - but I'm slowly getting closer.

DESIGNATE HOMES

There is an article from CPS (Cloth Paper Scissors magazine) I just read on the rack. It describes a few traits of an ideal studio - and I'm trying to focus on those traits. The most important traits to me are dedicated homes for WIP (works in progress) and deciated homes for finished works.

What about you? Do you have a right-to-left process? Do you have a dedicated space for WIPs? Or finished works?
 
Click here for a peek at more WOYWW spaces - so much fun to see where other artists create!
 
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Peace,
LuLu