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Shiva-ing

Had a bit of fun on Sunday…. I need to make some Christmas gifts, so decided to make them. I took some of my hand-dyed fabric:

And then played with some rubbing thingamadobobs that I bought at Festival in Houston a year ago…what are they called? Made of plastic, used by elementary school kids to make crayon rubbings? Anyway, I have a package of “animal skins” and one of “leaves.” If you use the back side of the animal skin, this was some sort of reptile skin, you get a bark-look, so I used that on the teal with ultramarine Shiva paintstik.

I wanted to pull the two colors together, so I also used an iridescent blue on the purple fabric. The leaves are done with those doo-hickies, and used a bit of rug gripper (the rubberized stuff you put under carpets to prevent them from slipping all over) for the grid. Now I just have to MAKE something out of these. Plan A, a “swirl” bag, isn’t going to work. Made one out of different fabric for my mom, and the pieces are too short. Drat. Working on plan B–will let you know what happens.

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