So, yesterday, I showed you my latest piece, drying happily - I was quite pleased with it and was looking forward to working with the piece when it was rinsed and dried.



I mean, it looks so ... full of potential, right? 

Well, as is my usual form, I experiment first, and look for directions later if my experiment didn't work out. 

It didn't work out. *heh*



See, after I happily painted it, I thought "I wonder how you set the colour? I mean, if you heat it, the soy wax will melt all over the place, not to mention ' Hi honey. Sorry about the house being burned to the ground.  See, I put this wax filled thing in the microwave and...."  lol

So, I let it sit for 24 hours and hoped for the best. Broke up the soy wax and rinsed the rest off under hot water.  And that was the sad, sad result.

*lets take a moment to mourn*

So, then I called the store where I bought the materials and they told me you have to roll it up in paper and steam it - over a pot of boiling water or with a clothes steamer.

I guess I'll do that NEXT time. 

*heh*

As you can see, I started out with some silk twill, a stretcher frame and some silk pins. Unsurprisingly, I began by stretching a piece of silk twill over the frame, pinned it down with the silk pins, and then used:  

Soy wax and a tjanting tool, with which I drew my design on the silk.  The soy wax can be seen in the picture above as all of the gray areas.  I'm sorry I didn't think to take pictures as I went along, but you'd be surprised how a tool full of molten hot wax flushed thoughts of photography from my mind! ;)




and when the soy wax was dry, I used these fabric paints, diluted with base extender, to fill in my doodles.

It's drying now, let's see how it turns out tomorrow after it's been rinsed and set...

So you may remember that I was working on this piece a couple of weeks ago.  First, I hand-painted my fabrics (a post on how to achieve this result is coming soon), but I was struggling with the leaf issue -  I wanted it to look leaf-blown, but couldn't decide which leaf worked best...


I made a couple of different styles in a couple of different fabrics...



But finally decided that the "November-ness" of "November" was best expressed by no leaves at all.



Just a cold, Northern wind...


Oh, and the winner of two charm packs of Tula Pink's Neptune is:

Hiyacinth, who said "Terrific Tula Pink designs. They're so intriguing! "  Congratulations Hiyacinth, email me your address and I'll send them along to you.

I'll be doing another giveaway very soon, so stay tuned...

Today is a day for golf, turkey, playing with friends and family. 

But recently, I've been playing with this:




Stay tuned.

Oh! And don't forget - you still have time to enter the giveaway.  But you have to do it on THIS post.

I have two charm packs of Neptune by Tula Pink, which looks like this:



It's a very simple giveaway:

No bells, no whistles.


If you are a visible follower; i.e. I can see you over there in my followers gadget ---------->



Leave a comment on this post today or tomorrow, October 10, and I'll do a random draw for a winner, and announce it on Tuesday, October 11.

Cheers,

Jack says:  "Is it morning already?  Don't you want to go back to bed?"


I said, "Great idea, Jack!"

See YOU all later. :)