Shine & Shimmer - retreat
Spend a day working with fibre and creativity. Enjoy a workshop, learn new fibre art techniques, visit other fibre artists and enjoy the many sites and sounds that Salt Spring Island has to offer.
Shine and shimmer: Learn how to add a little glitz to your art quilts using foils, metals, copper shim, metallic paints and glass beads. Explore ways to produce luminescence using angelina fibres, shiva paint sticks, organzas and other shimmery fibres. Students will complete a wall hanging that uses a very simple theme, but b adding embellishments, will produce a unique piece o art.
Our first and third samples show how copper sheets can be used to create the interesting effects in art quilts. In our second sample, nylon scarves were needle felted onto a piece o hand made paper. Gold details added b heat setting embossing powders with glue. W then added the glass beads with a clear drying fabric glue.
Our final sample is taken from the home page. Here, Susan has cut strips of metal shim and woven them together. This sample also features glass beads, couched yarns and free motion stitching.
