Marie Curie is back home

My entry for "She Made her Mark" arrived home this morning from Indiana. It's been away a while and I was excited to see it again.

I wanted to share with you the "ribbon" I received with my quilt. Isn't it beautiful?

I thought I had decided on the colour to paint my 2007 Journal Quilt but I was busy doing something totally different and wondered what the fabric/quilting would look like painted blue. Instead of painting a sample on it's own I decided to paint one with all three colours - red, white and blue. I have decided on blue. I painted the whole quilt top with the blue acrylic and it looks good. It was a little scary after spending a whole morning quilting the piece but it was fine in the end. If you haven't tried painting your quilt AFTER it has been quilted then you should try a sample it's good fun. I use the sample pieces as a warm up before I start quilting on my main quilt.

I spent a good part of yesterday adding beads to the Journal Quilt. It's time consuming and I have so many other things I just HAVE to do but I also want to get more beads stitched on it. Today I have been beading for a while then housework, beading and then housework ....... I often work like this and it's just amazing how much I can get done that way.

Here are some samples of Evolon I have been working on. This piece was dyed using some dyes I have had lying around in jars since my last dyeing session. All things considered it has turned out OK. I need to experiment a little more with different colours to see how they turn out. I also heated it with the heat gun. I definitely needed a respirator for this. I melts into holes rather than crumbling like lutrador or kunin felt. I prefer lutrador for burning I have to say but I will experiment some more with the evolon.

I coloured this piece with Ranger Distress Ink pads - vintage photo and weathered wood by rubbing the ink pad on the evolon and you can see I also stamped it using the same colour ink pad (sorry the photograph is a little out of focus).


I used System 3 acrylic for this piece - I should have waited until the base coat was dry before I stencilled with the red but you get the idea. I just love this piece. The photograph doesn't do it justice. I used the new Media Textile paint I bought recently - Turquoise and purple - with treasure pewter rubbed on top.

I had the Markal (shiva) paintsticks out for something else I am working on and tried them on the evolon. They have turned out well. The background is blue, brown and a touch of red. I added the yellow by rubbing over a stamp. I think I will try the irridescent colours next.


You can see from the photographs that I have added mini tags to each of my samples. I painted the little tags with the media I used on the evolon and wrote on the tags the media I had used. When I was making my books a while ago I was having real problems with eyelets and Tonniece told me about the cropadile. I bought one and I have to say it is fantastic.