May 14, 2012

Making Graffiti Pillows

These are the start of my graffiti pillows - I have taken a couple of my hand painted fabrics - I selected two colours, cut them up into different size pieces and sewed them back together with lots of white zig zag and curvy sewing.  Then I cut out my words and sewed them on in black zig zag.  Now I just have to hand paint a couple of back pieces and put them all together as an actual pillow.  I do like them so far but also think I could be a bit more "wild" with the graffiti on the backgrounds.   But these are my first two so will see how we go.

May 9, 2012

Fabric Painting

Been having fun creating hand painted fabric pieces following Alisa Burke's book "Sew Wild".  Before I can do any sewing which I can't wait to do I have to create lots of painted fabric pieces.  Here is a selection I have already done - all different styles and colours.  The first item I want to sew is graffiti pillows which means a lot of writing all over my painted pieces and some messy painting - don't have any photos of those ones yet.