Unseamly Collage and Next Meeting April 1

The next meeting of Unseamly in Boulder is April 1 at 12 noon at Sharon's home. Sharon is providing pizza, Cynthia is bringing hot wings, others can bring whatever else they want.

We are planning to talk about our show at Presbyterian Manor and the artists night at BOMA, have show and tell, have lunch and the usual....and do some photo transfers of our Unseamly photos! Some of us are going to do individual quilts or collages with the various photos. Bring your photos to scan or on CD or email to Cynthia to put on a combined CD. It might be fun to have the kiddie photos as well as photos of us as young women and recent photos.

We will have both an Ink-Jet printer and a Pigment-ink printer to play with.

Bring Fabric to print the photos you want.

• The Ink-Jet printer requires pre-treated fabric like Printed Treasures (or check out this cool website to order a wide variety of fabrics pre-treated for printing http://www.colortextiles.com/products.html ) or Bubble Jet treated fabric with a paper backing.
• The Pigment-ink printer use untreated fabric with a paper backing. The backing and fabric should be cut exactly or a smidge smaller than 8.5 x 11. The backing can be freezer paper, whole sheet labels, or Steam A Seam 2. Best results are usually with tightly woven white or light colored prewashed cotton.
• Here's an article for more info http://www.gloriahansen.com/inkjet.html

If you are interested in collaging your photos along with other fabrics, motifs and images, here's an couple examples from Cynthia using this cool book called The Art of Fabric Collage by Rosemary Eichorn http://www.sewjourn.com/navset.htm We'll have the book at the meeting.

Supplies for Collage:

Quilt sandwich (backing, batting and top background fabric) in the size you want to work with

Motifs cut from commercial fabric or photo transferred scans from magazines images & photos

Scraps of fabrics to layer on the background and tuck in between the motifs and images

Scissors and pins

Thread, hand needle and/or fabric glue stick to baste scraps, motifs and images onto the quilt sandwich in a pleasing arrangement

Sewing machine to quilt it all together (we won't have time to do this at the meeting)