Fabric manupilation techniques

On Saturday I attended a workshop at Midsomer Quilting in Chilcompton. The session was run by Bini Mistri and the object of the day was to produce samples using different fabric manipulation techn…

Are you looking for ideas on how to manipulate fabric? In this tutorial I introduce a whole bunch of different types of tucks for you to choose from.

This week we were using acrylic paint on fabric to create different effects. We started by stippling some calico with a dry brush using 2 colours - blue and yellow in my case, resulting in lots of green and looking like a flowery meadow! Then we moved on to using a diffuser and thin paint to give an effect like airbrushing, holding a piece of ripped paper in front of the fabric to act as a mask so that some parts stayed white. Then we moved on to a way of making monoprints on glass. We put…

Three t-shirt hacks using fabric origami to increase awesomeness

Sep 3, 2012 - We are delighted to present a workshop with the renowned German feltmaker Dagmar Binder. Dagmar has given workshops and exhibited widely throughout Europe and North and South America. As well as the two day workshop with us Dagmar is also giving an illustrated talk about her work on Sunday 1st July in the Palatine Room…

After printing one of the mokume pieces with normal transparent binder, I left it to dry and then opened the pleats out flat. At regular intervals I then stitched sets of the pleats together and le…

From the daring to the demure, fabric manipulation techniques make garments into one of a kind pieces of art. Whether you lean toward the avant garde masterpieces shown by Comme des Garçon or the delicate confections that are Marchesa’s signature, learning fabric manipulation techniques is one way to make your garments stand apart from the […]

Learn unique techniques that will enhance your next quilt! These vintage sewing techniques will raise the surface of your quilt and truly impress. We’ll learn heirloom smocking techniques, t…

Last year in CDO convention in Tabiano we got a booklet with work of Alessandro Bebber with many great tessellation patterns inside... one of them is for very interesting tessellation, paper version of it you can see here back and here front and here CP... this is bigger version made using shadowfold technique (Chris Palmer, Jeff Rutzky)... I really like how it looks here with all the twists not yet flattened... I am not so sure, how the ironed version will look like... hopefully also…