for the time being my blog with the same name is here:

http://textielverfenderest.blogspot.com/

as I thought that was much easier to handle with my groups being at the same blogger.

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Because this quilt is due today I show you my third white quilt. (the second will follow soon). The group Art quilts around the world shows today what their members did with the subject Mandala. I felt it was sort of difficult because a Dutch group had just done the same and I had seen results. So I decided to continue with my white-fabrics-quilts. By the way I am totally inspired by this book: Stitching to dye in Quilt art, by C June Barns)

Omdat vandaag de quiltjes van Art quilts around the world worden getoond laat ik nu mijn derde witte quilt zien. Het onderwerp is Mandala. Dat vond ik soort van moeilijk omdat een nederlandse groep dat net ook had gedaan en ik de resultaten daarvan had gezien. Daarom heb ik besloten gewoon verder te gaan met de witte stofjes.

This time I included orange-red and stamped fabrics. It was done by hand, but the quilting was done by machine.

Deze keer met oranjerode en gestempelde stoffen. Het is met de hand in elkaar gezet, en met de machine gequilt.

  I also included baticwax on the orange dots and tiny marks in between the orange triangles to avoid exposure to the paint.

Op de oranje stippen heb ik batikwas gedaan en ook kleine stippen was tussen de oranje driehoeken om het verven op die plekken te voorkomen.

When totally finished it goes into a dyebath:  Als het helemaal klaar is gaat het in het verfbad:

then after rinsing washing drying

na het spoelen wassen en drogen

This is the first quilt which went into a dye-bath. For now it is allright, but maybe I will paint over it

Dit is de eerste quilt die in een verfbad is gegaan. Voorlopig is ie goed, maar het zou kunnen dat ik er nog overheen ga verven.

These cones are part of a collection I have been gathering. All natural fibers and white or off-white. / Deze kegels zijn een deel van mijn nieuwe verzameling. Allemaal natuurlijke vezels in wit of gebroken wit:

There is also a collection of fabrics. Cotton, silk, damask, flannel, linen. Some bought new, others found stored away, and now ready for new life. / Er is ook een verzameling stoffen. Katoen, zijde, damast, flanel, linnen. Sommige stoffen zijn nieuw gekocht, maar anderen zijn opgedoken uit kasten waarin ze lagen opgeslagen en worden nu op een andere manier verwerkt.

So far I have made two small quilts. Each one is about 12 square inch. Now they are ready to be dyed. I have done several experiments with the dye I have here, but this didnot work out well. The colors didnot turn out the way I wanted them to.  So the quilts will stay white for a bit longer. / Tot nu toe heb ik twee kleine quiltjes gemaakt, elk van ongeveer 30 vierkante cm. Nu zijn ze klaar om in een verfbad te gaan. Ik heb wat experimenten gedaan met de verf die ik hier had, maar daar ben ik niet tevreden over. De kleuren werden anders dan ik had verwacht. Dus de quiltjes blijven nog even wit.

This was made for one of the members of Tegendraads.She wanted to have poppys, go take a look at all the different poppys on the tegendraads site.  The leaves of the poppy are made of painted silk. Underneath is a photocopy of a picture I took of a poppy. On the copy vliesofix (an adhesive) was ironed and underneath iron-on-interfacing. Then it was crumpled to soften the paper. Some lines were made more apparent with a black finemarker. The red silk was put on top of this and it was sandwiched with batting and fabric. Then with brown thread it was quilted. In the middle some silk was cut away.

I have been busy attending workshops. On friday Linda Colsh was the teacher and it was all about design with black and white.

The next day Cherilyn Martin taught us to emboss the surface with UTEE. This material needs to be melted and then you can pour it over fabric, stamp it, and more. My best results are these earrings:

Pictures of the challenge for Artquilts Around the World are due today. The subject is: when or where sea and land meet. I thought of harbours and busy trading. I collected many pictures like these:

and

I made a scetch of a place in the harbour and inverted this into fabric. It was machinequilted and then silver paintstick was used on the containers to  give a older look. A chain was added to complete the quilt.

Every now and then I swap postcards. I received a nice red card from Linda with a screenprint on it consisting old houses from Amsterdam. In return I made a postcard for her and I hope it is on time for her birthday:

I made two more, a little bit different:

and then this one, made of leftovers from the rose of last blog:

Last tuesday Tegendraads had its monthly meeting. This time Ria was the lucky one to receive a small quilt from everybody. Her theme was rose or roses and the results are already on the site of Tegendraads. I have been busy  experimenting with crayons, inspired by an article from Quilting Arts Magazine, so that is how this one developed.

I have made more baskets. I have a total of 94 now, so I am getting somewhere with this These are the new ones:

I also have been busy making a new quilt for on our couch. Our oldest daughter took a quilt with her to her dorm. So we need a new one. I have shown the fabrics here before. It was too much altogether, so I devided the fabrics in two parts: New York by night and New York by day. Now I have two tops, but it will be one quilt. The tops are waiting to be sandwiched and quilted.