This is my 2nd time painting fabric – I painted t-shirts and jeans and sneakers 30 years ago with thick acrylics that dried quickly and were not very forgiving in the process. But I loved them anyway!!
This time I had a small piece of white Kona cotton that I painted with Seta – Color. I thinned them significantly and just let them move on their own. I was very nervous initially and then realized nothing could go wrong as it would be what it would be. This piece was just to see what the paints would do……..
After the piece was dry I hung it up on the wall, took it down, stuck it on the top of a pile of other fabrics, rolled it up and put it away, took it back out and started the entire process again. This piece of fabric has many miles on it!!!
I decided after all this looking, that it looked like a bag to me so I layered it with a piece of batting – very dense (Quilter’s Dream Green) to give it shape without stiffness. It is lined with a scrap of pink cotton from the leftovers basket. A little embroidery, a few buttons…..
I finished the edges with many runs of zigzag in colored thread first and then topped with a multicolored metallic for just a touch of shine.
where my heart is 