Setacolor

For a long time I've wanted to try something new. A couple of years ago I watched one of Georgia Bonesteel's programs about painting fabric. It looked fun, easy and doable. But I never got around to trying it.

The first thing to do was find the paints. Setacolor was available at Michael's, so I purchased a kit that had several different colors.


I then found a book in the library about painting fabric. Such beautiful results. But alas, I needed to return the book, and still did not crack open the paints.

Well my dear friend Kelly Jackson over at I Have a Notion issued a challenge using a new type of material by RocLon. I hesitated, and hem, and haw..... and finally Kelly just said..... awww, just try.

So here I am, trying something new on something new!

First the gear and set up ............

paint, paint, paint.......

adding some images that hopefully will shadow.....

I also painted a piece of muslin and added rock salt.........
And then you leave the fabrics out in the sun, and wait................

This is the piece of muslin. The sun faded the colors a bit, but the salt made some cool designs.

And this is the piece of RocLon.

The features of the Roc-Lon Multi-purpose cloth is that it will not fray when cut, it can be sewn, can be glued, and can be hole-punched. My first thought was to make a Journal cover. However because of the limited size of my sample (8 1/2" x 11"), I ended up using a DVD slip case as a pattern.


I'm sorry about the stitching. I thought I'd try some kind of locking stitch, but after doing one side, decided to just do a longer regular stitch, and I liked that better.

This multi-purpose cloth was easy to work with. And because it will not fray, I think it would work great to make a journal cover.

Thanks for staying with me on this process. It was a fun project. Hey Kelly, is this okay??