Make Your Own Oilcloth

Spoonflower had a link to this info on how to create your own oilcloth - the old fashioned way! Kind of interesting!!!

http://www.curbly.com/ModHomeEcTeacher/posts/6857-real-oilcloth-and-how-to-make-it#jump

New Spoonflower Fabric!!!

I had one of my designs printed up on Spoonflower fabric again!! They do such a great job!!! You can see every little pencil line. I had the print done mirror image, and I think it's kinda cute!!!
If I can bear to cut into it, I almost like the crosshatched pencil backround better than the 'shrooms!! It would look nice in a quilt!
LOL

The Lonely Easel

Well, since my first attempt at sketching in a long time(see previous post), the pad and pencils have been active every morning!!!

I received lots of kind comments on my sketch, and find myself now, early in the morning, with tea and pencils in hand.Love my colored pencils!!!

I found a cool vintage easel a few years ago, in a dusty corner of an antique shop. I have a friend who does pleine aire painting with a similar easel, and a mom who used to do lovely oil paintings. I thought if I brought this easel home and set it up with all that was needed to create, it would inspire someone to sit in front of it.

Well, this has been a lovely vignette, but a very lonely one!! No one has been inspired to sit and create.The friend lives too far away, and mom doesn't paint any more. I haven't really done anything with a paintbrush except paint furniture or walls!

Until now, that is......!

I feel like I am getting warmed up, with pencils in hand every morning! But, being of scattered mind, I wonder how long this will last! There is always another artistic endeavor that will veer me off course!

But, for now,I am happy drawing and/or doodling.Tomorrow's project is sketching the little angel wing begonia cutting on the dining room table.

Yesterday and today's project is a little mushroom "art" - 'shrooms- this is going to be my next spoonflower fabric design. We'll see how it goes.................

Got my Fabric!!

Someone on Facebook mentioned an online company that prints your own designs on fabric- http://www.spoonflower.com

Of course, I had to check it out and used a photo of mine for the design. I only got a fat quarter of fabric - just to see how it would turn out.
I was in my car one morning and was admiring the frost designs on my windshield, and took a picture of the frosted glass with the sky above. I arranged this picture in a repeat pattern, and sent in the order.

My fabric came very quickly, nicely wrapped in tissue.

I love it!! - and am going to get another yard with one of my own designs.Now I know how Pat Sloan feels!!!

Now, what to do with this piece of fabric!!!!