Fabric SCrap Book 2

It's the same cover fabric as book 1 and some of the pages are similar but not the same

Digital prints on the left

Experiments with a wax resist, gelli print, art buttons, machine stitching on water soluble fabric

Transfer print sample with strips of paper, machine stitched cutwork leaves, paper layers with embroidery

Transfer print, puff binder samples

Handmade fabric from scraps and sheer, screen printed sample, devore sample

Painted and stitched paper

Layered painted fabrics with net top, machine embroidery, hand embroidery

Small pieces of fabric overlapped and joined with decorative stitching

Sweet wrapping papers layered with bubble wrap topping, machine stitched. Art buttons

Discharge printed sample, melted plastic sample on black fabric. Hand embroidery that I did on a t-shirt

Paper back printing overlaid with a sheer fabric, freehand machine embroidery, metal animal charm

Freehand machine embroidered tiger 

Transfer print [paints], the circle was hand painted, stitched and beaded, fabric flowers with machine embroidery

Painted fabric, melted plastic, machine embroidery and single decorative stitches

Gelli prints, machine embroidery, handmade cord, bead

Printed fabrics, one with textured wallpaper, layered fabrics with hand embroidery

Silk painting samples

Screen print, digital print [Queens], layered fabrics, distressed with net top and stitching

Screen print sample, machine stitching, beads

Sewing machine stitch sample [I no longer have that machine]

Small embroidery samples

Marbled background fabric, dyed lace and machine embroidery, quilted dyed fabric

Stamped fabric, machine stitched cutwork leaves, handmade cord

Dyed and bleached velvet with freehand machine embroidery, found bow

Marbled background fabric, painted lace and hand stitching, inkjet print sample, art button

Screen prints, some on chamois leather

Manipulated fabrics, some with wire

Layered squares of fabric - different textures

Layered and distressed fabric [burnt with soldering iron, net top layer embellished with embroidery], painted and stamped thick vilene, painted net from wall tiles, Florentine embroidery sample

Transfer print [paints], small digital print [to cover a mistake ha ha]

Handmade Sketchbook - Pages 16-25

Digital artwork - inkjet prints, waste from cutting

Recycled greetings card on clear glossy paper, stamping, drawing

I didn't put anything on this side but the show thru is quite interesting

A page from a magazine and painted paper, the birds are a Zing cut 

Printed painted papers, most of the ram from a magazine

Painted papers, the flowers are Zing cut and painted

Recycled greetings card on clear glossy paper

Digital art print, Zing cut flower

People Book [32]

Altered book, I also use the book to draw people in different styles.

The rows of queens you see in the background on the left page are collaged parts of business cards, the design on them was for a digitally printed fabric which I did when I was at college. There is another collaged peice on the right page of another fabric design, this one is not very clear so I've another picture of it below. They were both inspired by playing cards.

Sketchbook Project [10]

I started with a pen drawing of jellyfish, then painted their inards with a Liquitex Interference paint. I had some fabric [transfer print which I did at college a few years back], which I scanned into the computer and then printed onto a sheet of translucent vellum. I then drew on similar jellyfish to those on the sketchbook page.

One is then placed over the other to make it look like a sea full of jellyfish.

From Sketch to Fabric

The fabric was for a competition entry a few years ago [while I was at college in 2005] held by the Bradford Textile Society, for digitally printed fabric [section 2] - my theme was Games. I started with painting a board and I collaged cut & torn papers. Then everything was scanned into the computer, and I separated the images from the background and arranged them on the screen. Other drawings were added and also an image of an old games board and after lots and lots of experimentation I arranged them so that the pattern would repeat. [Trial and error, although there was a program at college which could do repeats, I never did get the hang of it, (although I must admit I only ever tried it once - it wouldn't repeat in a way I wanted it to!)]

I had to show the design on boards in different colourways






And the finished design was printed on linen at college [CCAD] on one of those big digital textile printers.I was awarded a commendation by the Bradford Textile Society.