Working with sheers - revisited

At today's meeting, several us of we're working with sheer fabrics and here are a couple of pieces that are 'works in progress'. The first is by Phyl, who has added small areas of colour to a piece of paper lamination she made at an earlier meeting.

The second started with a piece of silk painting. Hilary has added colour with pieces of nylon organza and added extra colour with a further layer across the whole design.

I shall look forward to seeing both these pieces after further work.

February meeting - Using sheers revisited

After the last session on using sheers, I continued experimenting with nylon organza and the soldering iron and will be able to demonstrate a few alternative ways of using this fabric along with other fabrics. I will bring examples of combining the organza with acetate, wool felt, devoré velvet and satin, as well as using layers of nylon alone. Feel free to bring other fabrics to experiment with.

Suggested requirements:

Sheer fabrics. I will bring nylon organza, but you might want to use silk, fine cotton or something else.

Thicker fabric to use as a background (if required). White fabric will give a pastel effect (see example above), while coloured fabrics will modify the colours of the sheer fabric.

If you have them: Soldering iron, heatproof surface, metal ruler/straight edge.

Thread for hand or machine stitching.

Sewing kit and/or sewing machine.

As usual, please bring along something for a shared lunch and things for the show and tell.