A New Art Quilting Group is in Town

We are a part of Pieces and Patches Quilt Guild Jackson Michigan.  We wanted to start a small get together for people in the guild who are interested in art quilting.  We had our first meeting yesterday.  We decorated composition notebooks to use as a place to keep inspiration photos, sketches, swatches and keep notes for our art quilts.  We had a lot of fun with collage and paint, which some members had never done before. Now we all need to start filling our notebooks with ideas and start making art quilts.  I didn't get pictures of everyone's notebook, but I plan to get photos at the next meeting.  Then I'll share them here. In the meantime I'll share the notebooks that I created for examples.

Here is the supply list for this project:
 composition notebook

·        scrapbook papers two or three different papers- you don’t need a whole page of each

·         old book pages and music sheets

·         words from magazine or printed text

·         Stickers or other embellishments that you love

·         two or three colors of paint ( I like Liquitex Basics)

·         paint brushes

·         gesso

·         gel medium, Collage Pauge, or Mod Podge

·         stamps and stamp pads

·         heat tool or hair dryer

·         freezer paper

     

      Here are the basic directions for decorating the notebook:

·         Lightly sand both covers and wipe off with a damp paper towel.

·         Put freezer paper under the covers with the book opened to the middle to protect the pages

·         Brush a layer of gesso over entire cover and let dry or dry with heat tool.

·         Cut and tear the papers that you want to use.

·         Brush a thin layer of gel medium onto part of the cover.

·         Lay down papers to cover gel medium.

·         Brush gel medium over the paper and smooth out to get rid of bubbles

·         Continue this way overlapping papers until the outside is covered and all the papers have gel medium covering them.

·         Let it dry completely or dry with a heat tool.

·         Brush a thin layer of paint onto papers using all your colors and mixing them where they overlap- make sure that you let bits of the paper show through.

·         Let the paint dry completely or dry with a heat tool.

·         Add stamped images, stickers, and embellishments until you are happy with the result.

·         Brush on another layer of gel medium or varnish to protect the cover and let dry.

Use this notebook to draw quick sketches for inspiration, write notes, attach color swatches, fabric swatches, and anything else to help you along on your quilting journey. 

Here is the supply list for our October meeting:

We hope to learn and share our quilting knowledge thorough this group, so that we can all grow as quilters. 

Thanks,

Janelle