SEnd me white!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am going to be doing some serious digging in my rubbermaids of fabric, after seeing these-------OMGOMGOMGIWANTTHESEFABRICS!!!!!!!

Patricia has really been turning me on to the rustabilities of this technique!  Actually, i'm going to try these with all kinds and colours of fabric and all sorts of rust, dirt, grime and grease :} I've bought the biggest bottles of vinegar and huge boxes of salt, have stockpiled some buckets from the Flower Mines, and am just waiting for a long stretch of time. I'd love to score some space from the local junkyard to bury and strew fabrics, throw some in puddles for them to drive those big manly crusher thingies over and drip battery acid, oil and carguts all over them.

Yeah, it's wierd. Yup.

In the meantime, i have been "colouring" today---just noodling around with scraps and colours and ideas. Here are two results that i will translate further once the above insanity has been accomplished.

The first is a base of some of my rust dyed fabric with scraps of coconut fibre (from Karen in Vanuatu) and a piece of birchbark from one of our road trips last year. Some text on paper, a bit of copper and black tulle. Meh. Crosshatchy, eggy, and intense-------but i love the texture of the applied raw edged twisted strips and the definite dots of the quilting. File these ideas.

Next i tried that quilting bit on some strong colour----hand dyed cheeseclothy gauzecotton, slivers of copper foil, some loose angelina and a bit of saffron shading into orange shading into hot pink roving that i am jonesing for more of, all again with copper tulle over. LOVE the texture and hand it gives. Useful base for something--cuff bracelets? Bag? Box? Still just a developing idea.

But if i use this/these with some Rustabilities???????????OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comments

[MA]

OOOOO, is right! Talk about inspirational eye candy. I wanna go play in the rust and I haven't time at the moment...waaah. However - my favourite BIL brought me rusty springs...just because he loves me!

[deb]

RUST NEVER SLEEPS!

[Jackie]

You never told me you were a mad textile scientist.......

[arlee]

You might as well go to Flickr to see these photos...........over there in the side bar........

Thanks all! Mad, i tell you, i'm maaaaad!

[material witness]

I just love your new header.
MAke sure you get your tetanus shot ! You crazed ruster you!