Moving Day!

Well I have decided to move my blog to typepad. Please visit my blog at my new address:

http://suebleiweiss.typepad.com/

Remember to update your links, I'll see you over at my new home!

another box...

Remember several posts back I talked about the round robin that Terri, Joanna and I were doing? We all got our original fabric back last week and my fabric that started as this:


Came back to me after Joanna and Terri were finished with it looking like this:


Needless to say I was very very happy with the results! Now the second part of the round robin is to create three boxes from the fabric and then send them off to each other for embellishment. Here's what my boxes look like:



I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking whoop de doo another box. Ahhh but I did something a little different to the inside of this one:

I added some pockets on the sides and a little box on the bottom. I think this would make a nice little sewing kit box or something. Now I'm off to make two more!

Silk purse and a silk box

And the silk projects continue....

A silk clasp top purse:


and a silk box. The top of this box flips up.

Silk projects

I've started cutting into all the silk I've spent the last couple of weeks painting. Here are a couple of the smaller projects that I've finished.

A silk covered journal:


A silk lamp:


A needle/tool roll embellished with silk applique:

That has plenty of room on the inside for knitting needles, brushes or whatever you like:


And here are the last two pieces of painted silk that I just pressed this morning:

Piece 1:


Piece 2:


These two pieces are both pretty large at about 1 1/2 yards each so I think one will get turned into vest. Not sure what I'll do with the other one.

My new bag!

My friend Terri is a very talented fiber artist and she makes these wonderful bags. I fell in love with her bags when I saw them posted on her blog and decided I had to have one and it arrived today!



and not only is the front wonderful but take a look at the back side:

When I first started making bags I took a lot of commercially made bags apart to see how they were constructed on the inside. I even took apart some very expensive designer leather bags, you know the kind that run in the triple digits, because I wanted to know what the professionals used on the insides of their bags. So I consider my self a bit of a bag aficionado and can spot a well made bag from a hundred paces and I can honestly say that this is a beautifully made bag. The stitching is perfect, the construction is flawless and the composition of the fabrics is wonderful. And that hand painted girly face! I love it! If you want a bag like mine then pop over to Terri's Etsy shop and get one, I promise you that you won't be dissapointed!

More painted silk....

Some more silk painted using a dyed shaving cream technique...









And this next piece was done using a pole wrapping technique.


And now I'm headed to the sewing machine to turn all of these pieces into something...

Painted silk

A couple of new pieces of hand painted silk examples from my silk painting workshop...


This piece above was done using a fold and paint technique. In this picture the piece is actually ironed flat but because of how it was painted it really gives the fabric an interesting surface doesn't it?



I'll have several more pieces to share with you tomorrow. Everything else I've been working on for the last several days is still drying.