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| Marlis Egger | Journal Quilt | 8" x 8" hand dyed fabric textile paint hand quilted |
Hi everyone, Marlis here.
Can you believe another month is nearly over???
When the new theme was announced I thought oops … what shall I do with THIS?? Branching Out – Out on a Limb. I was glad that Jane Davis told us something about her theme:
Branching Out: expanding skills, sprouting new ideas, discovering unknown territory
Out on a Limb: (flip side of branching out) taking risks, facing fear of failure, getting into discomfort zone, facing Inner Critic, taking the plunge with courage.
If this wasn’t a perfect theme for me right now …??? (I’m in a transition period of my life)
When I am painting (printing, stenciling etc.), I often avoid getting into discomfort zone because once I love what I did, I don’t want to ruin or spoil my cloth (or even my paper…). So I stop – instead of building up layers.
In my sketchbook I decided to start with the very next page - turquoise with some white circles (resists). The first layer was stamping with a cork, the second stamping with an empty spool of thread, the third stamping with a self made eraser stamp, the fourth some bold brush strokes and last but not least three of my beloved ;-) curved, black crosses.
I took exactly the same steps to creat the journal quilt, starting with a piece of hand dyed turquoise fabric.
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| Sketchbook page, front |
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| Sketchbook page, opened up |
