Making Faces

At our February meeting, Mary led us in trying a technique from the book, "Making Faces in Fabric", by Melissa Averinos.  (I want to do the cat faces in her workshops section!!)

First we drew a picture of a face, using her instruction, to get the proportions correct. 

Susan and Lori worked from images they had prepared in advance.

Then it was time to try and replicate, or interpret, our drawings on fabric. 

Martha

Lori

Susan

Mary Ellen's looks angry, doesn't it? 

 

Chris

Kathi

 Elaine and Mary Lee decided to work without their drawings and create very different faces. 

Elaine

 

Mary

It should be interesting -and fun!!- to see the finished works!

We're still doing the telephone game*, and it's killing all of  us not to be able to show them, or to bounce ideas off each other.

* Like the game we used to play as kids, but with quilts.  Each of us made a small quilt, which was passed on to the next person.  That person makes a small quilt inspired by the piece they receive, seals the inspiration piece up in an envelope- not to be opened until the big reveal- and passes on her new piece to the next person.  There will be 9 quilts in each group, but each of us only sees what the person in front of us made.

Making our own fabric "paper"

 The ArtCGirlz decided to revive the practice of each month a member shares a technique with the rest of the group.  For the January meeting, it was Kathi's turn.  She shared a sort of fabric decoupage technique, which she called fabric paper.

Kathi shows all how to use plain muslin, white glue and the assorted bits of paper, threads, glitter and other fabrics members were instructed to bring.

 A layer of glue painted on the fabric holds the "bits" in place.

Some of the fun "bits" people brought to play with.

 Early in the process, it's hard to know what you're doing.

 Kathi loves this process and kept playing with different supplies and bits.   

 

 Lori wasn't sure what she was doing, but ended up with a piece she liked. 





















 

 Chris' piece was inspired by the wrinkled bit of tissue paper she started with!

We also exchanged our envelopes for the swap project we're doing this year.  None of us will see them until the swap is complete, so we can't she you.  We're all dying of curiosity!

In February, Mary will be leading a different kind of collage technique.