A little while ago my friend Janet set us Liverbirds a challenge, to decorate a John Lewis canvas bag, which she kindly supplied. This bag has been sitting in my sewing room for weeks and I have been stumped as to what to do with it. I have just returned from the Festival of Quilts and whilst there I discovered a stall that sold fabric pens and books, all about doodling. The lady on the stall was using a Micron pen on paper and I was shocked because they are fabric pens but she said they worked far better on paper than they did on fabric. She recommended another fabric pen that had a roller ball nib that was better suited to writing and doodling on fabric. I bought one of these pens and today I doodled all over the challenge bag. I did what ever took my fancy. The pen was everything the lady said, smooth, easy to use and I had almost finished when sadly it ran out. I have to confess that the hare on the front of the bag is not my design I tried to copy Johanna Basfords hare, not very successfully I may add.
Hi Gwen It was so lovely just doodling away. To be honest its addictive and the time flys so you have to be careful or nothing else gets done. Cant wait to see you all feels like its been months since I been to Liverbirds xxx
Its so beautiful and wow I have just finished a quilt with the same design as your blue one. It was in the Jelly Roll book.. I used Moda's Wildflowers.
hi Chris thanks for dropping by. Yes Blue Lagoon is from the book jelly Roll Quilts by Pam and Nicky Linnot. All the fabrics came from my stash. Hope you will drop by again. :)
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I like the doodling,,,, are you going to colour it all in????
Thats so nice! Like a dream.
Hi Caz I was initially going to colour it but changed my mind. I added bits of blue and red to be a bit patriotic colours of the union jack :)
Hi Kath yes I suppose it is I just did things that popped into my head. So it could be interpreted as day dreaming. :)
WOW! that's FAB-U-LOUS! Such imagination! Can't wait to see it (the 1st week in September) I've done mine, but nothing like that! x
Hi Gwen It was so lovely just doodling away. To be honest its addictive and the time flys so you have to be careful or nothing else gets done. Cant wait to see you all feels like its been months since I been to Liverbirds xxx
Its so beautiful and wow I have just finished a quilt with the same design as your blue one. It was in the Jelly Roll book..
I used Moda's Wildflowers.
happy quilting
Chris
hi Chris thanks for dropping by. Yes Blue Lagoon is from the book jelly Roll Quilts by Pam and Nicky Linnot. All the fabrics came from my stash. Hope you will drop by again. :)
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