Disintegrating Fabric 2

I decided to have a play with bondaweb and thread waste to ‘grow’ a piece of fabric!

Image 1 – First I covered a piece of bondaweb with yellow, white and silver thread waste:

Image 2 – With another piece of bondaweb on the top I ironed to bond using greaseproof paper to prevent scorching:

Image 3 – My bondaweb thread sandwich:

Image 4 – Off came the top backing paper:

Image 5 – Off came the other backing sheet to reveal my bonded square:

Image 6 – Close up of the square.  You can see the texture of the melted glue and in the right light it sparkles a little:

Image 7 – My chosen shape cut out from the bonded fabric square:

Image 8 – The remaining bonded fabric square (I like this more than the actual shape itself!):

Disintegrating Fabric 1

Ways to disintegrate fabric…

Image 1 – Fraying the edge:

Image 2 – Fraying the edge and the inner:

Image 3 – Cutting into the square and fraying:

Image 4 – Fraying inside and outside of the fabric shape:

Image 5 – Cutting into the square and fraying:

Image 6 – The piece shown in Image 5 but folded (the ‘windmill’ from the paper experiments):

Image 7 – Close up of the ‘windmill’ showing the form created:

Image 8 – Tiny frayed squares formed into a cross:

Image 9 – Close up of mini crosses:

I did take a sequence of photographs where the bit cross slowly vanished by taking away the little crosses but the photos weren’t terribly successful.

Paper Shapes

I began by using the shape that seem to have carried through several chapters.

Image 1 – Taking out sections of the shape:

Image 2 – Taking slices out of the shape to gradually grow it:

Paper Experiments

Chapter 11 begins with paper experiments.  How can you grow/disintegrate a piece of paper?

Image 1 – Here I’ve tried to grow/disintegrate using different size shape cutting (I think the top left cutting is quite effective):

Image 2 – Cutting and folding a square of paper:

Image 3 – Close up of the top left cutting:

Image 4 – I love the 3D nature of the folding

Image 5 – another close up showing the folding giving a 3D effect:

Image 6 – Ripping out sections:

Image 7 – Ripping, poking and cutting:

Image 8 – Another folding close-up:

Image 9 – Ripped the square into a spiral:

Image 10 – Spiral from the side.  Whilst the square has disintegrated another shape has been formed:

I particularly like the ‘windmill’ (images 3 and 4) and I might take that further into my resolved sample.

Inlay Appliqué – Counterchange Sample 3

Now onto the final, more complex, sample.  This time I cut different patterns/crosses from two different squares (to get four different pieces) and bonded them onto four entirely whole squares.  Then I cut out the swirly star from each piece and inlaid them into each other!  Gosh that sounds jolly complicated!
Image 1 – The finished sample with one line of running stitch on each portion to tie them all together:
Image 2 – The top-left square:
Image 3 – Close up of the top-left square:
Image 4 – Top-right square:
Image 5 – Bottom-left square (my favourite portion!):
Image 6 – Bottom-left square mid-stitching:
Image 7 – Close up of bottom-left square:
Image 8 – Close up of bottom-left square:
Image 9 – Close up of bottom-left square:
Image 10 – Bottom-right square:
Image 11 – Close up of bottom-right square:
This sample is ripe for embellishment – I could go knot crazy on the blocks of colour, maybe use some tiny sequins (my new favourite things).  But I won’t.  I’m saving my energy for the final stitched chapter of the module which I’m itching to get on with.
If I did this piece again I would take more time bonding the initial shapes.  Embellishment would secure any edges with a loose bond.