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Thursday, October 26, 2023

Fall Fling Market on Free Motion Mavericks

Welcome to week 453 of Free Motion Mavericks. I have been busy getting ready for the Out of the Box (OOTB) Fibre Artists' Fall Fling Marketplace. This will be the first one held in the Fall.

Fall Fling 2023

Fall Fling 2023 - a marketplace

The organisers had a major challenge when they found out a few weeks ago that the location that they thought they had rented, was not available. A new, even better venue was found but the posters and advertising with the old location are out there! We've all been doing our best to spread the word through social media.

Since this is a marketplace, all of our art work must be for sale. I don't usually make items to sell for the market section of our shows, but this time I thought that I would make a few and see how I do. As I've mentioned in another post, I love all of the things that I've made, so having to bring them back home would not be a terrible thing 😊. However anything that sells can go towards buying new supplies and that would be nice!

FMQ journals and covers

In case you didn't see these last week, here are a few pictures. If you want more details, all of the links can be found in the Related links section below.

2 pink journal covers

Blue and green journal covers with very thick journals within

Hand-made books

I've also decided to put the three little library books in the marketplace.

Embroidered stitches used for the spine of these lovely little books

Included is the journal with the hour-glass binding made of paper fabric. I haven't written a post about this specific book, but I did include it in the post about my refillable notepad cases, when I talked about paper fabric.

Journal with the hour-glass binding made of paper fabric

Front of the journal made of paper fabric

I have one refillable notepad case in the marketplace.

Refillable notepad case

The inside of the case

Small art pieces

I have three small art pieces for sale. This first one is Squirrel! I realised as I was writing this post that I never did share the finish on my blog. There are, however, pictures on Instagram.

Squirrel! made from gelli printed fabric

My Ephemera 1 piece will be in the show.

Ephemera 1

Finally, I finished a meditation piece that I started at an Out of the Box (OOTB) playdate that I ran in July. It was very successful and I decided to see if I could stitch the finished piece on a spray painted canvas. I really love the effect. I'll be trying out more of these in the future.

Fly, fly away meditation stitched piece mounted on an 8" x 8" canvas

Since I haven't bought any business cards yet, I created these home-made price cards for the items. Between the snowflake hole and the label, I have affixed the price codes for the sale. Most of these are attached with small safely pins.

Home-made price cards

What I learned

It always takes so much more time than I expect to get everything ready for a show or sale and this time was no exception.
I had fun making the little price cards. I still haven't bought business cards yet.
I'm really looking forward to doing some shopping of my own at the marketplace.
If you're in the Ottawa area, I'll be at Fall Fling all day Friday. I hope to see you there!

Results: It was a lot of fun seeing everyone's art and pieces and of course seeing my peeps! I sold the blue and the green covered journals and the chain stitch little library book. Yeah!!! If you are a reader or you found my blog because you bought the journals, Thanks and Welcome here!

Free Motion Mavericks

Last week we had six FMQ link ups. Yeah!!! Thanks everyone for linking up. 😊

Denise at the Quiltery created this beautiful North Carolina Star for the Falling for Accuquilt Challenge. You can check out a close-up of her FMQ here.

Denise's beautiful North Carolina Star

Margo of MY Quilts and Crafts designed and quilted this lovely modern baby quilt. It's a real beauty. You can find out more about it on her post.

Margo's modern baby quilt

Sandra of mmm quilts has been working on this quilt for many years. It celebrates 150 Canadian Women. Make sure that you read her post and see close-ups of some of the blocks!

150 Canadian Women quilt - 7 years in the making!

Gail had another beautiful finish! She quilted "Splendor" using 3 Silly Moon's rulers.

"Splendor" finished by Gail

Anja finished FMQ "Blue Skies". This is the first quilt that she has loaded on her new longarm. That is a lovely finish with wavy lines and stippling. It's always difficult to quilt on a new machine. Best of luck!

Anja's "Blue Skies"

Diann of Little Penguin Quilts finished a lovely beach landscape quilt. It was her first landscape quilt, and hopefully not her last. What a great finish and a souvenir of one of her favourite places....I wish I was there too! 😊

Diann's lovely beach landscape quilt

It's now your turn!

Thursday, May 04, 2023

Gelli Printing and Stitching on Free Motion Mavericks

Welcome to week 429 of Free Motion Mavericks. This week I got lost in a monoprinting and embroidery project. It's all about learning and having fun here - and that's what I did! 😊 Thanks for dropping by.

Monoprinting on a Gelli Plate

Gelli prints stitched so far

After watching artist Sue Hotchkis' workshop on TextileArtist.org, I was inspired to do some monoprinting, but this time on my Gelli plate. I've had it for a while but hadn't had the courage to use it yet. After doing some monoprinting, I was ready to give it a try!

The fabric doesn't have to be plain white. I cut up a large piece of hand-dyed pink and yellow fabric into 5" or 6" squares. The fabric is probably a blend of cotton-polyester because the dye colours came out quite light. It was perfect for over-printing.

Pieces of fabric being over-printed on the Gelli plate

You can see from the image above that I placed the fabric onto the paint covered Gelli plate in various ways. Sometimes it was the whole piece of fabric and sometimes only smaller sections. My Gelli plate is 5" x 7", so there was usually extra paint that had to be covered.

Here are the results. I started by adding yellow and red/pink to the plate. eventually I started adding blue to the mix. Since the paint dried quickly, I often added several layers of paint to a piece of fabric. I really love the results - from simple to complex.

The results of monoprinting on the Gelli plate

You can see the one mask that I created - the squirrel. I had copied this squirrel to FMQ on my Wild Hexies baby quilt but it got lost in the mess of my desk. I placed a piece of printing paper under the tracing paper and went over the squirrel with a pencil. I could see the lines on the paper, so then I went over them with a pencil. I cut the template and voilà!

Close-up of the printed fabric

The rest of the printed fabric

I also cleaned up my brayer on a sketchbook page. Here are the two pages that I created. They will eventually look great incorporate into a handmade journal.

Sketchbook page

Second sketchbook page

Adding stitching

I hand stitched six pieces together to create the beginning of an art piece. I then cut up an interesting piece of another square and stitched it on top. Our teacher, Sue Hotchkis, demonstrated how to finish a piece that has parts sticking out. I really want to try that technique. I'll let you know all about it when I get there 😊

Starting to stitch the piece, including a part that sticks out.

I started by stitching that extra swirling piece. I stitched it one way but was intrigued by the additional yellow swirls going through it. I decided to stitch those also. I'm not sure if I like all of the additional yellow swirls. I may remove a few - we'll see.

Stitching in the swirls

Is there too much there? Maybe...😕- we'll see

I was glad to start stitching the other pieces. The second stitched piece was created by putting a dried leaf (another mask) over the paint. The leaf had curled up a bit but flattened out when I placed the fabric over it. I love the result.

I added running stitches with metallic thread on the left. I'm using a lot of variegated embroidery floss while the cross stitches and the leaf outline are done using Mouliné étoile embroidery thread by DMC in a dark blue.

Stitching around the leaf

I love variegated thread and found the perfect one for the chain stitch on this piece.

Adding a chain stitch with lovely variegated thread

May's One Monthly Goal

I didn't reach my April OMG but I'm going to try again. I really want to finish my Wild Hexies baby quilt. My May OMG is to finish free motion quilting (FMQ) it. I have a few more critters to add and the border. I also need to fix up the trucks where my quilting went off.

Wild Hexies baby quilt - May's OMG

What I learned

I'm so happy that I can do gelli printing on my desk in the studio. I just cover my cutting mat with a sheet of heavy plastic and everything fits on it. Of course I'm extra careful with the Colour Vie paint that I used, but it does wash off easily.
It took me a couple of hours to do all of these prints. I'm really looking forward to playing with it again.
I tried to print paper from an old book but that didn't work out. I suspect that I didn't have enough paint on the Gelli plate. I will be trying that out again.
When I did monoprinting for the fist time I used ink onto paper, so I will try that also on the gelli plate.
I've been cleaning up my studio - it's a big job because I really needed to re-organise things. I'm about half done and it's so much better. I'll write a post about it eventually. I have learned lots!

Free Motion Mavericks

We had three FMQ projects last week. Congrats!

DonnaLee quilted her large (40" by 48") Wonky Log Cabin quilt on her domestic sewing machine. She used a serpentine stitch. Way to go! It looks great.

Wonky Log Cabin quilt quilted by DonnaLee

Frédérique helped her friend make a "Grey As Well" quilt. When her friend had trouble quilting it, Frédérique offered to do it for her. I love how she quilted the inside of the larger squares - it really adds texture to the quilt. Bravo Frédérique !

Grey as Well quilted by Frédérique

Did you see Gail's finished Melodic Mystery designed by Meadow Mist? What a beauty. Gail used a combination of FMQ and rulers to finish this beauty. It really looks great!