Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Rubbing On A Quilting MOTIF
I love working with rubbing plates and even natural surfaces when I'm adding textures to my paintings, but DUH... it only now occurs to me that I might purposely use a rubbing plate for a quilting pattern motif. I just grabbed a plate that was 1/2 wood pattern, 1/2 brick pattern. 
In this test, I used my Tsukineko Transparent Inks atop a piece of light valued modeled fabric ( a hand dye ). Placing the Rubbing plate underneath the fabric, then using a brush tip fantastix fiber stick to rub across the fabric surface and create an interesting surface design.
Once dry/ heat set, it can be used as 'the plan' for quilting. 
The brick pattern worked too. 
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Thanks for the idea Patt! I have these plates to use with Shiva sticks but I don't like the smell of Shiva, so they have been ignored.
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