Sections of painted Bondaweb ironed onto black cotton As I said in the previous post, this a back to front post as we played with the painted Bondaweb on the first afternoon but I hope you will forgive me, it made more sense (to me) to present it in this order.  Bondaweb is still my favourite product to work with. It so versatile, it can be used for applique, dressmaking, repairs and for putting up hems, and of course, it is wonderful when it is painted. Sometimes you iron off a piece of painted Bondaweb intending to decorate it with all kind of glittery and sparkly things and it is so beautiful you can leave it just as it is and stitch into it just to enhance it's beauty.   When students begin to paint their Bondaweb I always say " don't paint stripes, let the colours merge, you are making a background" then one of the students paints stripes and it looks FAB!!!!! It was very interesting working with this particular group as they were mostl

Painted Bondaweb ironed onto a turquoise background fabric, decorated with dried seeds and leaves, jewel dots and strips of the backing paper from the Bondaweb  The first day of this 3 day course was spent showing the students the basic layering techniques we were due to cover. Once the students have got to grips with the basics they can then start zapping and stitching or whatever they fancy. First of all we painted Bondaweb and Tyvek - The Bondaweb we started to work with today (as you will see) and the Tyvek will be played with tomorrow. While the Bondaweb was drying the students ironed some plain Bondaweb onto a piece of pre-coloured Vilene Spunbond CS500. A soldering iron was then used to cut out shapes which were the ironed onto a second piece of Spunbond. Here are some of their samples -         We then experimented with transfer printing onto white CS800 - the heaviest weight Spunbond. I have my heat press here so the students had the chance to try tr

 Bondaweb painted with diluted Colourful Thoughts paint and then printed with the same paints at full strength. Never say never!  I have always said I will never sell paints or dyes - just products that will do something with heat. However - due to the encouraging growth in sales of my Play packs, particularly the Hot Spots! I am now gong to incorporate Colourful Thoughts Paints, Gilding Flake and Jewel Dots in two new Play packs that I will launch mid January ready for the new Creative Stitches Show at Bluewater at the beginning of February.   These multi surface paints are the best I have found for painting all my products but particularly for Bondaweb and Tyvek where you need to dilute the paint but you still need some colour. They have a high metallic content which is great as many of you know I like a bit of sparkle . . . Which  brings me to the Gilding Flake and Jewel Dots -  I just LOVE this stuff is makes my happiness complete when I am layering with