Showing posts with label Rusty Stuff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rusty Stuff. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Rusty Stuff, Trev's Quilt, Snowdyed

This is the last of the snowdyed I will be doing for the time being. I have approx 300 yards ready for the next 5 shows I have scheduled. I will be making more before the big Paducah show. This piece I did a little different first I mixed two colors together and then I added a little salt to the mix. I did get some different texture and patterning by adding the salt.
I'm taking a rusting class with Beth Wheeler and I needed to find some rusty objects. I went to my freecycle and asked if anyone had some small rusty stuff. I found a retired boilermaker that had lots of stuff and this is what he gave me. He also told me if I needed more that I had just skimmed the top of what he had. I hit the jackpot on some of the patterns in this stuff.
This is the border fabric and quilt I'm working on for my grandson for his 9th birthday. I saw a pattern in a Fon's and Porter Mag called diamond leaves, the darker fabric has guitars on it so I'm calling it diamond guitars. I made a colorwheel using the colors of fuschia, turquoise and sun yellow. The colors are just perfect with the color of the guitars.