Marbling Gallery

Here are some of my favorite pieces that Mom and I made while marbling over the last couple of days.  We taught a class downstate, then did some more marbling at home :)  Generally, I tend to do pictorial pieces, and she does more traditional ones, so we get a nice assortment of fun stuff.

I figured out how to make dragons!  This one is my favorite:

Lost your marbles?

How to Marble

Mom and I taught another class on marbling! Well, actually, Mom taught it, I was just there to help.  Then, we came home and used up the supplies we didn't use in classs. It was great.  Marbling's always fun.  

So, how exactly does one marble fabric?  Well, first, you start with a carageean base.  It's basically a super liquidy gel.

Then, you take some special acrylic paints and splatter/float them on the surface of the carageean.

...add more colors...

At this point, you have a "stone" pattern.  You can stop here, or you can use a skewer or a rake to pull the paints around.

When you're done raking, you can stop there, or you can add specific drops of paint and turn them into flowers.

There we go, design's all done.  Now, you lay a piece of fabric on it...

...and then you pull the fabric off!

Lunch Bags

My brother and sister-in-law came back to MI for a little bit, and Allyson went home with some regular fabric, some waterproof fabric, and a lunchbag book.  So far, she's made some really fun sandwich wraps and placemats!

Samples!

Here we have some fun samples of various things :)

First, here's one I made.  It's just a simple, cute strip quilt.  We already have one like this with jungle animals, and then we got farm fabric in!  This is the very first quilt I've machine quilted.

The back is fun, too :)

This is Jerri's sample for the Rapid Fire Lemoyne Star.  It's not hanging at the store right now, but it was here while she was teaching the class a few days ago.

...and this is Judy's new sample for the beginning quilting class.  Mom used to teach it, and Judy's taking over.

This is the "Chubby Charmer".  Jerri's teaching this class on Wednesday, September 21, 10-4.

Remember that Quilt of Valor quilt I posted earlier? (http://delphinesquiltshop.blogspot.com/2011/06/quilts-of-valor.html)  It's finally done!  Kathy Hughes of Brandywine Design quilted it on her longarm.  She did a great job!  In the store, we have business cards and quilting samples from several longarmers in the area.  They all do great work.