Friday, January 15, 2016

Andrea's Pun Quilt


I Just Couldn't Resist

11 x 14

glue resist fabric, hand-dyed 100% cotton, machine pieced, fused,
machine stitched

I never intended to design another circle quilt for my Pun, but my muse sent me in that direction.  I will admit that I had trouble coming up with any pun concepts that I really wanted to work with.  This quilt is the result of my third idea.  With the deadline looming, I had to begin with something, so started to construct my second idea.  After a two day struggle, I was looking online and saw the word "resist" and thought OK, this is something that I can have fun with!
Many years ago when I first started using fiber-reactive dyes, I created some resist fabrics, a surface design technique, using a product called Presist and thickened dyes.  I looked though the fabrics that I had made and was disappointed because none of them "spoke" to me.  When I realized I would not have enough time to make more fabric using those products, I remembered that I had read about using Elmer's School glue as a resist.
It was suggested that the fabric be stretched on some type of frame so that it would not come in contact with another surface while drying.  The first thing I thought of was an embroidery hoop, which worked very well.  I applied the glue to a piece of my snow-dyed fabric in a squiggle pattern and let it dry overnight.  Once completely dried I sprayed it with a diluted black acrylic paint.  I ended up wanting to use the entire circle instead of cutting it up as I originally thought I would do.  I pieced the circle ( I actually made five circles ) into a hand-dyed fabric with a color shift from purple to magenta.  


 Wet glue on snow-dyed fabric



Design wall with resist circle fabrics.

10 comments:

  1. Andrea, I have been dying (dyeing?) to try glue resist, and when I see your beautiful quilt, I want to do so all the more. This represents a clever and original pun, and your quilt is lovely.

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  2. Wonderful pun. I love your use of the resist

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  3. Glue and snow dyed fabric to make a resist - love your creativity Andrea! What a beautiful quilt and so fun to learn how you did it!

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  4. I have to admit I don't quite get how you did this, but it's wonderful!!! Love the colors and composition. Impressive graphic piece!!

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    1. Whoops...neglected to mention that after the paint was dried ( helped by a hair dyer) I soaked the fabric in hot water to remove the glue to reveal the resisted design!
      Hope this helps?

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  5. Color and composition of this little beauty are just masterful! Love love love

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  6. I really love this beautiful quilt. As Lois said, the color and composition are exquisite. The beauty far exceeds the pun.

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  7. Beautiful, Andrea, and so you! I just couldn't resist.

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  8. OH MY ! Absolutely STUNNING ! I brought down bunches of my dyed, over-dyed, sun-dyed, etc. cotton & silk fabrics from Alaska; you've ignited the spark to get me back into those super special mixed-media art quilts. Thankx Andrea :-D

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