Fabric/Textile Postcards

For those of you that may not following me on Facebook I have been also making fabric/textile postcards.  I love to send them to family and friends in place of a regular card one gets at the drugstore.  I also belong to a couple of Facebook Postcard Swap Groups where we are given a theme to work with and a swap partner to send to.  Hope you enjoy them. 

 

Quilting Cotton, Upholstery Fabric, Tulle, Fuzzy Yarn and Dried Grass

 



 

Up-cycled Jacket Fabric, Burlap, Yarn, Charms & Embroidery




 

Batik Cotton, Hand-dyed Lace Trim, Acorn Ribbon, Paper Leaves and Charms



 

Coffee-dyed Motif, Flat Beads, Linen Fabric, Cork Fabric and Embroidery




 

Up-cycled Jacket Fabric, Wool Yarn and Fuzzy Yarn, Burlap Trim and Up-cycled Pendant Charm



And here are some postcards from the past:

The Pumpkin Patch was sent to Charmaine in France (swap group)  

 

 

 

The above Sunflower was gifted to my mom on Mothers Day 2017

 

 

This sunflower went to England - pc swap

 

 

The Vintage pc was sent in a pc swap - forgot the destination

 

 

 

 

This Chickee Bird was a Birthday Card for a friend.

 

 

This Vintage pc went to Ineke in The Netherlands - pc swap 2017

 

 

This Makers Choice pc was made for pc swap

 

This wildflower pc was an experiment which I kept.  I had hand dyed some lace and did some embroidery on it.

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Made this Indigo pc for a swap with Penelope Q.  in 2017

 

My attempt at a Canadian themed pc swap.  I think this one went to The Netherlands as well.

 

This Wildflower pc was made for a swap and also went overseas.

 

 

This is my very first pc which I have kept and framed.

 

This pc was my very first one sent in swap ... can't remember where or the theme for this one.

 

 

This postcard theme was Back to School and was for a swap.

 

This pc was sent to Maria in Costa Rica ... Theme was first letter of their name. "M" for Maria

 

This pc was a Maker's Choice design for a pc swap.

 

The theme for this one was "Fantasy Trip"

 

The theme for this one was "1950 Nostalgia"

 

The theme for this swap was "Kites"

 

The theme for this one was "Colors of Winter"

 

This was my attempt at "Vintage Shabby Chic" and was sent to Lorraine in Australia as a private swap

 

The theme for this one was "Colors"

 

This "Under the Sea" pc was fun to create. Got a chance to use my collection of charms here.

 

This was sent to the UK to Janet, theme was "Crazy in Red, White or Blue"

 

 

This ones heading to Ineke in The Netherlands for a swap.

 

This ones heading to Winsome in England for a swap.

Color Theory CQ Course 2018

I haven't been very good with step by step posting ... I'm just a lazy blogger ... but do love to share my finished blocks and projects.   Anyways, I will try to remember to share some step by step with this project... I'm really loving how it is coming together and the autumn colors are so wonderful to create around.

 

This is my canvas....I tried to remember the rule of three here.

 

Pulled out some lace pieces that appealed to me and the block.  If I use part of the yellow doily I will see if I can redye it more gold then butter yellow.  I really like the long row of green/yellow/orange leaves, so they will stay, the wispy falling leaves are staying and also the dragonfly which will not be in that corner. As I envision this block to be full when complete, there might be more to add yet. 

Wait and see ;)

 

 

Gotta have charms ... love all these choices so we'll see which works.

 

 

 

Not a really good photo here, but ribbons and trim.  Haven't

made any choices yet.

 

 

 

 

A sneak peak of my progress overall.

 

 

This is my favorite ... a row of corn on the cob... lol!!

 

 

A row of tiny roses.

 

 

One lonely pumpkin ... more to come.

 

 

Brown leather flower trim with burgundy French knot center and silk ribbon leaves.

 

 

Variegated fern to fill this corner and you can see the penciled in acorn off to the side, yet to be stitched.

 

 

Cretan Stitch ... in progress .... What to do ... what to do here.  Any suggestions?

 

 

This seam is in need of some beads .... seam in progress

 

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What do you think about my scarecrow?   LOL  I removed the dark green braid in the top right corner and am thinking of using a ribbon and creating a cluster here. Nothing is firm yet as I just have this pinned on right now.

 

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Now to tackle that top left corner.  My first idea had been to do something with the pale yellow doily, so I tried to dye it gold and succeeded in dying it orange so tried to bleach it and finally just gave up.  So I finally decided to try my luck at silk sunflowers and my ribbon that I dyed did actually turn out gold so here's what I came up with:

 

The beads are actually gold as well just the photo doesn't do them justice.  Next up was some more bead work.



 

 

 

Also, worked on the spider web and placement of some lace motifs.

 

 

And the overall look

 

 



 

When I get the bead work finished I'll add the charms and ribbon cluster with the owl.

 

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Finished at last

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CQJP 2018

 Yippee I am finally and officially a crazy quilter...lol!!  I have signed up for my first Journal Project.  One block per month needs to be created and here we go..............

January 2018

 

 

February 2018

 

 

 

March 2018

 

 

 

 

April

 

 

 

May

 

 

 

June

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



CQ Postcard Calender /Notecard Project

My recent passion is making these Crazy Quilted Postcards and my plan is to make at least 12 for a 2019 Calendar and Notecards.  Alas, I have gifted the yellow one so need to make a new yellow one.