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November 2009
YOUNG QUILTERS PROJECT
During
the summer holidays I worked with some children at my local community centre to
produce a wall hanging for the centre. I
thought that you may like to try the same idea that we used.
We started by everyone drawing a face or a pattern
with hands onto a sheet of A4 paper and, using felt tip pens, coloured in the design.
I then took these home
and using the copier photocopied the design onto fabric. If you have a copier that uses a pigment ink
[Epsom is called dura-brite ink] all you have to do
is wash a piece of white cotton fabric, iron on a A4 sheet of freezer paper,
cut to size and then enclose the edge that will go first through the printer
with masking tape. If the printer is not
very happy with this try just cutting off the corners of the paper, this often
helps. Failing that, instead of freezer
paper, use an A4 sticky label. If you do
not have a pigment ink printer you can buy fabric already prepared for ordinary
ink [Miracle fabric sheets; EQ Printables or PhotoFabric are three I know], but don’t get the paper
designed for Tee shirts, that is plastic.
At the next session these were put in the middle of
a larger sheet of fabric and we added crazy patchwork round the edge.
Finally
these were all joined together to make one large piece of work. It looks
fantastic!
Why
don’t you use this idea and print some photos onto the fabric and make really personalised gifts for Christmas? One thing I have done is take
photos of my friend’s house, printed them onto fabric, then made them into
place mats. Another time I used some holiday pictures printed onto fabric to
make a cushion.
Just
one point, please ask before you put fabric through your parent’s printer!
Gill
Burgess.
Seeing the Impossible by
Leonard D’Aranjo
Leonard D’Aranjo
with his YQ Challenge Cup for his quilt ‘Seeing the Impossible’
Leonard is one of our most
active and productive Young Quilters
Young Quilters’ workshops
Come along to our Regional Days where you can join
in with a special workshop and see demonstrations.
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