What happened?

I had am uplifting and inspiring post ready to go and when I pushed PUBLISH the computer and internet ate it.

So here is a less than inspiring post with some great pictures.

I was personally inspired to rust some fabric by (click here)Carol of Quilted Fabric Art......I always want to say Quilted Fiber Art because I think of her as a great fiber artist.

So I pulled the first one out of the vinegar package last night.

Here is the second one I did.  You can see the sawblade I used for the overall color and I poked nails through the fabric.  I think the sawblade sort of overwhelmed the whole piece, but I am not complaining AT ALL!!!!!
 

The rust always thins a bit with the stopping process then the wash with Dawn process.  And then it lightens as it dries.  So you can begin to really see the nail marks on the wet piece I have hung out to dry.  

Suzette of Swooze's Quilts And Tall Tales (yes, she is actually one of the few women taller than me!)  inspired, or rather GUILTED me into finishing some of the 20 quilts I had in the To Be Quilted pile before I strated any new ones.  So here is the tribute I am paying to her, a quilting finish.  

This is from oh, 10 years at least.  The doilies are from Frank's mother, she was a prolific doily maker.  And this quilt will go to our Nephew Shannon's daughter.  His father Gene was Frank's brother who died when he was 49.  

She needs a bit of her Great Grandmother's stuff.  This will be exciting for her to have.

Single Photos of the Rustings

Is this better?  (I thought the collages were cute, but hey, they want what they want!)

In other news:  I came across a method to MAKE rust on things that are not rusty yet.  I sacrificed a brownie pan.  Who needs the calories.  


The squares each are 22 by 22 from dupioni silk that was a light ecru, barely off white color.  The hand of the pieces is still very soft.  One would think that rust might be stiff.   But it is not.

Dupioni is a plain weave ilk made by using a find thread in the warp and an uneven thread on the weft.  The uneven thread is often two tangled cocoons.  This creates a luster to the surface interspersed with slubs.  I love the slubs. 

This is the chain.  It was very heavy and the links were more than half the width of my palm.

I was hoping to have more of a chain effect, but there are several places that came across.  It actually looks like a giraffe body.

This is the bucket.  It look just  like the bucket, too. 


 I showed it to the crane guy's son and he was fascinated with the process and the result.  I said several times that I always look for rusty things, but I don't think it registered with  him that I WANTED rusty things.

I am going to link this post to Nina Marie's Off the Wall Friday, even though it is Sunday......I know, I know.  

Rust, Of Course!

Thanks, Swooze!  Sometimes I don't have all the good ideas!  You can click on the photos to make them larger.

Here's the bucket.......

And here is the chain they left just scattered about.......

Off The Wall at Nina Marie's!

I am linking this up with Nina Marie's Off the Wall posts.  Check out her space and see what wonderful stuff all the other people are doing this week.

I have had a difficult week working on getting my mother into hospice and visiting with Suzette from Texas.  So not much has been done.  But there are some interesting things that I have done.

Rust:

Several people have suggested that it looks like something from the Southwest.  Frank thinks it looks like something from Arches National Park.

He hiked to the first arch, but that was when I was jut beginning to have problems with my knee.  And I waited in the lot for him.  Not so much fun.

But it does look like the arches in the park.  So that is what it just might have to become!

I have been playing with hexies at night when we sit and watch our crime dramas.  NCIS, CSI and NCIS New Orleans.  Now I need to find someone who can take me to the next step and put them together.

I have put them together in bundles that will eventually be flowers of some sort.





I did not do my green foxes yet.  I have learned not to scoff at any color fox that might come out of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  I have already laid out some fabrics that will become fox face!

I have big plans for them!

Rusting Results

I decided to open the rusty stuff this afternoon.  I was rewarded.

(my keybord has decided not to type a's tody)

And I decided to do  second post to Nina Marie's Off the Wall.  

I love rusting things.  In this package I had a saw, a wiper blade part, some rebar and a few bottle caps.  Oh and  random bent wire.

You can see everything here in the finished piece.  Now I need to decide what to do with the last few pieces I have done.

the whole cloth- about 1/4 yard of the Ecology Cloth

Saw blade and wire

saw blade that was in second fold

this looks so wonderful, this is the serrated edge of the saw

One half

The other half

I can see the bottle cap and the metal piece.  

That dark piece is the wiper blade piece.

It is a wonderful piece of fabric!

Lutrador, Hexies an Rust

Remember that house that burned down just before Christmas??  Well, they finally began tearing it down today.  At about 8 pm there was all kinds of comotion with police, ambulances and fire trucks.  Flashing lights, sirens, all sorts of people.  I have no idea what happened.  When we walked the dogs we saw an Entergy truck  there, so I am thinking the house was still electrified.  hope no one was hurt.

I am linking this post up to Nina Marie's Off the Wall post.  there are a lot of other talented people showing there as well!

I was a busy bee tonight and this afternoon. 


I painted up some Lutrador.  With some Rose Tsukineco Ink.

And hung it out to dry.







Pale color that will most likely lighten as it dries.   But  there is no limit to the number of coats!

 I made a small  stack of hexies!  I made a bunch of templates out o a couple sheets of cardstock.  Fran was nice and he punched out a hole in the center of each one while he watched TV.

 One is a cat

one is a pretty coral color 

 and one is purple and teal.

I found this fabulous saw at a resale shop for $5.  I thought I would give it to Frank as an old tool, but he wanted to de-rust it.

So I decided to keep it for myself!









And it is resting nicely, steeped in vinegar and wrapped in Ecology Cloth.

A much better future is planned for it!

Eco-Bundling

I have some silk from a while back, for some project long forgotten.  So I thought to use it for my Eco-Bundle.  So what is an eco-bundle and why would you do it?

Because!

And Eco-Bundle is a piece of natural fabric wrapped up with a bunch of natural objects like leaves, nuts, rusty things.  And you  know how much I love rusty things!

I started with that piece of silk.  Found things like:

Oak leaves and some walnut and gum leaves.

magnolia leaves and a seed pod.

Dirt.

Some purple wandering jew leaves.  The freeze got them so they are in the process of drying up.

Rusty things!






 Here is everything laid out on the silk piece.  And some St John's Wort tea that is dried. 








I used some cotton twill tape Frank had in the garage.  He didn't tell me he had this wonderful tape!  I think he tried to sneak it in on me.  He knew I would lust after it.

Here is my bundle rolled but not tight yet.

 I wrapped it like a little mummy!  This is like what the Egyptians did with herbs and ointments and naards.  After I wet the whole thing, I buried the mummy in a very dark dirt flower pot because I didn't want the idiot child to dig it up.  I will try to remember to keep it moist and see what grows.

I couldn't decide whether to put it in a soda ash soak or pour some vinegar on it.  I think the rusting process will happen over time and moisture without the vinegar, but if not I can rust it after I dig it up.

I want to keep it buried until spring when I replant the pot.  This might be a new use for over-wintering pots!