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Creating With Cool Stuff

This is a combination hands-on and demonstration workshop where you will first create a small landscape using MistyFuse, metallic paint powders, Shiva paint sticks, Lutradur, Puff Paint, Tyvek, fabric paints, iridescent cracked ice, painted melted cellophane and sheer fabrics, roving, Angelina and Tintzl fibers and more. You will come away with a small, landscape art piece, pinned and ready to sew, and lots of inspiration for new projects. Come and see what you can create as you experiment with cool stuff that will enable you to create waterfalls, trees, clouds, streams, and abstract art!

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Creating with Cool Stuff – Supply fee of $20 includes full instructions and pattern, Puff Painted tree and rocks, Tyvek; iridescent cracked ice; roving, Mistyfuse; Lutradur; Totally Stable, Angelina fiber, cellophane; use of fabric paints, metallic paint powders, Shiva paint sticks, sheer fabrics as needed, and glitter glues.   

Note to Workshop Chair: We will need about 5 irons & ironing surfaces for the class, a couple of plug strips and cords, and two extra tables for painting and other esoteric activities. You might want a couple of cheap plastic tarps if you need to protect rugs and/or tables.

Fabrics:
  • One small piece or fat quarter of dark sky fabric – hand dyed, batik, painted, or just convincing as a dark sky
  • One small piece of printed flowers you can fussy cut wildflowers or greenery (you just need a couple of inches of this)
  • A few small pieces of sheer or transparent fabrics such as white sparkle organza, white shimmer perle or opalescent organdie
  • Small pieces of blue and/or white fabric for water, possibly water print, but any blue and white fabrics will do for the stream underlying sheer fabrics.

Other stuff - required: (Yes, you really need this stuff!)
  • Glue stick
  • A sheet of Lite Steam a Seam II or equivalent
  • One piece of tracing paper (the kind you see through to trace designs)
  • Freezer paper, 11-1/2” x 14”
  • Scotch tape
  • Lots of glass headed straight pins
  • Ultra fine line permanent Sharpie marker
  • Palette or 5-6 small plastic cups for paint & water
  • 3-5 small to medium paintbrushes, fan brush if you have one
  • Apron
  • Fine iridescent (white) glitter (Glamour from Michael’s or Hobby Lobby is great!)
  • White plastic garbage bag
  • Olfa cutter, small cutting board, ruler
  • Flat metal cookie sheet
  • Paper & Fabric Scissors, including sharp embroidery scissors
Bring these if you have them already, but do not buy them especially for the class.
  • Heat gun and/or wood burning tool
  • Parchment paper
  • Small electric fan
There is vitality, a life-force, a quickening that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through another medium. It will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is…It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. - Martha Graham

"We can do no great things, only small things with great love."  - Mother Theresa

"When the eye, the hand, and the heart come together, that's when you get the greatest art." - David Hockney
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