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Fire Supply List

In this class, you will be making a small firestorm, totally imaginary and completely beautiful in its shimmering glory.  This is a study in layers, with painted background trees, fused canopy, layers of sheer fabrics, Angelina and Tintzl fibers, burnt-edge trees, and more fibers, all covered by tulle and fused with Bonding Agent 007.  Very HOT!

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Material fee includes:   Pattern, Angelina and Tintzl fiber as needed, Bonding Agent 007, foil or glitter paint, Totally Stable, Shiva Paintstiks, Metallic paint powder, glitter glue, Topstitch 100 needle and sheer fabrics as needed. Materials fee, $20


Note to Workshop Chair:
 We will need 5 irons/ironing surfaces as a group; each student will need about 1/2 of a table and acces to electricity.  Sewing machines not required

Students need to bring (Yes, you really will need this stuff!):

  • A piece of background fabric about 10” x 12” with red, orange, yellow in it.  It will be covered up almost completely, so do not agonize over this choice
  • Tree fabrics: dark batiks or blurry fabric in black, dark blue or very dark green 
  • Foreground branch fabric (wood cheater fabric works well), preferably in burnt-tree colors (black or brown with orange/red).
  • Small scraps of flame colored fabrics: gold, orange, red, yellow – batiks or cottons or whatever you have around is fine. 
  • Sheer Fabrics.  You need a few sheer fabrics that you can rip, tear, shred, for a total of about 10 small pieces or red, black, or gold tulle; cheap chiffon scarves in the same colors; sheer metallics; crinkled metallic silk; fabric made of bronze or gold metallic fibers; sheer fabrics in flame colors like orange, gold and red, gray; any other transparent, whispery, shimmery fabric will help as long as it will overlap with transparency over other layers.  
  • 1/4 yard of red, gold or black fine tulle (not netting)
  • Sewer's Aide if you have some
  • Black Fabric marker
  • A couple of sheets of Lite Steam a Seam II or equivalent
  • .004 mm invisible thread 
  • Tall thin candle (taper as opposed to votive candle),
  • Matches
  • Candle holder
  • Pie plate or other small flat pan that will hold water
  • Scotch tape
  • Fine paint brush
  • White Plastic garbage bag
  • Sewing machine, along with power cord, darning or free-motion foot, and extra bobbins
  • Scissors for paper and fabric
  • Red, gold, or multicolored metallic thread for quilting
  • Plastic drinking straw
  • Batting the size of the finished piece (10" x 12")
  • Backing fabric larger than the size of the finished piece
  • One yard sheer gold or red 2" ribbon for border/binding

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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