Fibervoices Workshop GTQG March 2018

Creating a Fantasy Floral...

Fibervoices members led students in a workshop on vegetable, fruit and leaf printing to produce a Floral Fantasy.  I created the sample work (fig. 1), printing mint leaves, an apple (the butterfly), mushrooms, celery, bell pepper and Acacia leaves from our tree.  The vase was free-hand cut from paper then used as a pattern to cut monoprinted fabric.  Members remembered my Flowers for Elizabeth (fig. 2) which won a judge's choice award at our quilt show 2013, and the idea grew from there.  Workshop photos: (fig. 3- 9).  One of our students, Nasreen Saeedi, was the first to finish her Fantasy Floral (fig. 10).  It is gorgeous!  Can't wait to see the others.  The challenge is on, ladies!

I don't know that we would ever get a call to do this again but we all agreed it sure was a lot of fun!

Fantasy Floral                           fig. 1    

           

         

Flowers for Elizabeth                                    fig. 2

       

Mary Ann and Nancy ready to Print  fig. 3

Print Demo                                                  fig. 4         

                   

Linda Printing                           fig. 5

   Lisa and Jennifer                                        fig. 6

Practice Prints                                              fig. 7

Samples from Right: Nancy, Nancy, Nancy,                     fig. 8

                                                               Connie,Connie                                        

Samples by Connie                                                            fig. 8

Nasreen Saeedi                                         fig. 9

Susan Cornell                                               fig. 10