I usually get things done on the weekend. Crafty things. Not this weekend. No, first I was stuck in bed with some crazy bug, then I had to go to work and knuckle down to meet some deadlines. Booooo....all I got to craft was daydreams.
This week, after months of checking the thrift shops for an electric frying pan I finally found one! Just $5.99 from the Salvation Army. And cute, no?
This means that I'm almost ready to try out some batik! I need to buy the wax and find a stockpot and then I will be all set.
I'm daydreaming of this making a batik version of this hand-printed textile by Jenny Bergman (you can
read about it on True Up.)
If that fabric were for sale, I would buy it in a heartbeat. Since it is not, I'm going to try a batik version. Hopefully, it will play nicely with this fabric pile:
See, daydreaming!
Oh, I guess I did sew one thing...I tried out a 6-minute circle:
You can get a lesson on this method from
on hgtv's website. I found it pretty easy to do and I like how it looks.
I'm wondering if anyone has tried this with ovals? Egg shapes? What are the limits?
My library doesn't have this book (
Pieced Curves So Simple: The 6-Minute Circle and Other Time-Saving Delights
) but I filled out an inter-library loan request, so maybe I'll be able to check it out soon.
I have done that technique with ovals, not circles. It works well. You can see it on my Footballs of Destiny quilt.
ReplyDeleteSorry that you had a bug-a-boo. Hope you are feeling much better now.
ReplyDeleteThe fry pan is a great find, have tons of fun batik-ing!
I've been looking for an electric frying pan at thrift stores, too, after receiving Malka D's Color Your Cloth book for Christmas. Still haven't found one, but I will. Let us know how your batik experiments turn out!
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