“Nancy Roelfsema: Creating Quilt Fabric with Gel Printing Techniques”

 

     Have you ever wanted to create your own fabrics for quilt making and fiber art?  This technique is easy and creative.  Using a Gel Press mono printing plate, high quality acrylic paints and a variety of marking tools, stamps and stencils you can create fabrics that will make your next project a true stand out.  During this lecture, demo and trunk show, Nancy will take you through the process of painting fabrics, explain the supplies and tools needed and show many quilts she has created.

Check out her website and many you tube videos.  

Quilting with Nancy

Nancy gets a lot of ideas from the following site Paper Paintings, only Nancy uses fabric not paper.

Check out Elizabeth St. Hilaire

Nancy did all of that and more at our meeting on Friday Oct. 20, 2023

Folowing are examples of her work and of her printing technique on fabric. She used just a high grade of muslin or PFD (Prepared for Dyeing Fabric), Dylusions Paint, Liquitex Iridescent Medium, foam stamps and stencils.

She gets most of her supplies from  Joggles but if you use the following address when you order she gets a little of affiliate sales.  Use this to order

So many fun ideas, so little time.

Her first using paints, easy to sew through, permanent colors.

Close up of the Gel Press

Several techniques used

Nancy painted, sewed together into a quilt and quilted the above quilt all in one day.

Lots of leaves for designs in this one.

This is one of her patterns

Using Leaves

This is Nancy's Fractured Glass Pattern.

Show and Tell

Nancy

Susan

Great basket but she did not make it. Susan did weave all the pieces below.

  

Suzanne

Priscilla

Mieko Mintz, a Japanese trained fashion designer, uses kantha throws, made from recycled saris in West Bengal to make coats and jackets and other clothing inspired by traditional Japanese kimono design. Her high end clothing can be found on her website - http://www.miekomintz.com or at the Santa Fe Dry Goods store in New Mexico or on the Artful Home website. She sells her dressmaking scraps in her Etsy shop and these are what I use to make my pocket bags.
Priscilla

Judy

Judy got a new felting machine and she is loving making new things out of old.

Ava

Ava made a back pack out of a tote bag she had dyed.

And she is teaching herself to knit, her enthusiasm is wonderful.

Kim

Kim, on the left, is relearning how to weave.  Beautiful piece.

Wendy

Wendy took a class with Sally Manke and learned to use DerWent pencils on fabric.

Heather

Heather is making these wonderful neck scarves on a rigid heddle loom.