SCRIBBLING WITH PURPOSE
TUTOR: JANINE JUDGE
Discover how thread painting (free hand machine embroidery) can bring a fabric collage to life.
You will begin by creating an accurate fabric collage using a pattern developed from your reference photo, carefully selecting fabrics to establish the colour, shape and value of your flowering gum. Next delve into the art of thread painting (freehand machine embroidery), using expressive stitching to add texture, depth, subtle shading and seamless transitions between fabrics. Watch your artwork come to life as thread transforms your fabric collage into a realistic Flowering Gum.
While making this project, you will learn the technique by creating a realistic gum flower artwork.
You will learn to create a freezer paper pattern from your reference photo; how to build a realistic fabric collage as the foundation for your artwork and thread painting techniques to add texture, shading and fine detail (scribbling with purpose).
At the end of the class you will have a completed (or nearly completed) realistic gum flower artwork, and you will have the confidence and skills to create realistic art from your own reference photo.
Skill level: Confident beginner to advanced
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Class Requirements
SCRIBBLING WITH PURPOSE WITH JANINE JUDGE
TWO-DAY CLASS: Saturday and Sunday April 17 & 18
Class times: 9am to 5pm
Materials fee: $35 – optional for the tutor to provide.
- Sun-dyed duck cotton background fabric
- 3 x 200m Wonderfil threads (Tutti or Konfetti)
- Freezer paper
You will need to bring:
- Backing, and thin wadding for quilt sandwich (approx 50 x 50cm)
- Various fabric for collage of flowers and leaves
- Reference photo printed to size of finished project (approx 30 x 30cm). Janine prints hers from home using https://www.blockposters.com/create/
- Basting glue (Janine likes Roxanne’s Glue Baste it)
- Lightbox if you have one
- Usual sewing supplies – fabric and paper scissors
- Erasable marking utensil of choice (air or iron away)
- Quilting Gloves (optional – if you like to use them when doing free motion)
- Safety pins or spray to baste the quilt
- Reference photo on iPad/tablet (optional – handy to zoom in to see details)
And if you choose not to purchase the kit you will also need
- Heavy weight fabric for background of design (Janine uses duck cotton which she sun dyes)
- Assorted thread for thread painting [you can purchase the threads in the kit from Janine (optional) and bring some of your own if you want, or just bring your own.]
- Freezer paper
If you want to use one of my reference photos, please email Janine and request this; she will email it to you. If you are using your own photo, please send it to Janine so she can check it is suitable. [email protected]
Sewing machines will be provided.
To complete the project at home: you will need the remainder of the fabric for binding/facing.