Painted picture transfer

Chris led a very fun technique at the August meeting.  This technique, by Esterita Austin, was published in Quilting Arts in June of 2013. I was a bit hesitant because painting is not something I do well, but this was simple, fun and turned out beautifully!

The steps are simple-

Martha's

Choose your image, tape it to a smooth surface and tape a piece of parchment paper slightly larger than the image over it.  Using acrylic craft/ textile paints, fill in your image.  

Cynda's

Lori's (look for the eye)

MaryLee's

Chris'

This is the one Chris did to test the technique.  Once you've finished painting, and the paint has dried completely, You make a sandwich of plain parchment, organza, misty fuse, and your painting, face down.  Press gently, then flip it over and press again.  

 The paint sticks to the misty fuse, which sticks to the organza!  Let it cool, the carefully peel the parchment away.  The image can then be trimmed down and fused to a background fabric. 

I can't wait to see how people use their images. 

Only a couple more months to the big reveal of the telephone line game pieces!  What's the telephone line game, you ask? (since I'm not sure I said much about it when we started this project)
It's a game many of us played as kids.  Sit in a circle and choose a leader. That person whispers into the ear of the person sitting next to them- a simple word or phrase.  That person whispers into the next person's ear and so on around the circle.  When it gets back to the first person, he or she tells what they said and the last person tells what he or she heard.  There is usually a big difference! (Except at one slumber party where the thing I said came around only slightly changed, but into an embarrassing thing and I was mortified!)  So we're doing it now, but with quilts.  Stay tuned.