Thursday, March 24, 2005

Help -- I lost my head!

Just kidding! It's really a work in progress.

Here's the pattern being taped together after tile printing.

Using the pattern to trace shapes on Wonder Under, I then iron them to the fabric of choice.

Next I cut out the objects and and fuse them to black fabric. Then cut around the shapes again to leave a black border. I learned this trick in a class with Laura Wasilowski.

I usually break the figure up into smaller sections, and in retrospect I should have done that here because it was difficult to cut out such a large floppy thing, especially that rubber band arm.

Now there's a real block head. To be continued...

6 Comments:

Blogger Deborah said...

Oh I love this black border trick. Brilliant. It's looking fantastic.

6:09 AM  
Blogger Lisa, Procrastinator Extraordinaire said...

WoW! I love the way the black makes things pop. Thanks so much for sharing your work in progress!
Lisa

6:41 AM  
Blogger teri springer said...

Pam, this is great. I love how you work!! Your humor is always welcome, and it is a lifesaver (or sanity saver) on crappy days....Thank you for being here.

teri

7:15 AM  
Blogger Gerrie said...

Thanks for this. I was wondering how you did your work. Do you prewash the commercial fabrics that you fuse?

11:23 AM  
Blogger Diane said...

Thanks so much for showing step by step on a project...I love seeing how people do their pieces, and it's inspired me to start taking step-by-step pictures of my current project!

1:15 PM  
Blogger Elle said...

Thanks for the step-by-step! It's looking really cool!

10:03 PM  

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