Playing With Velver

Bredon Crafters has come round very soon after Quilting Arts so today I have worked hard preparing the project for next week.  At least now I am certain about what has to go into the kits and I will be with Kay and Chrys on Tuesday putting them together.

I first experienced this technique at a workshop with Angie Hughes and ever since have been promising myself another go using my own drawing rather than Angie's


To illustrate this post I will be using my own design and I have printed off enough for everyone.  However if you want to draw a design of your own it should be A4 size and drawn in such a way that it can be sliced into about five sections horizontally in a similar way to mine which you can see here.

Here the design is shown drawn on the paper side of Bondaweb and already sliced into sections on top of the black velvet..  You will see that I have cut a little more paper away in a couple of places because I want to use 'Hot Spots' there instead of Bondaweb.


Hot Spots are little pimples of glue on brown paper, rather than the glue mesh we are familiar with in Bondaweb.

This illustration shows them in close-up.  Hot Spots give a different result when foil is used so it adds variety to the picture.

In this illustration you can just see the iron at the side.  I am using it to tack the Bondaweb in place as I lie the strips on the black velvet and before ironing them in place fully.  This is to help get the image lined up properly with even gaps between the strips which outline and create the picture.


 Once the picture is ironed on to the velvet you can start working on it starting from the top.  Just remove the top paper only and work on that before moving to remove any more Bondaweb.

Always use baking parchment when gluing and decorating.  Cover the ironing pad with parchment and use a piece in between the iron and your work.

If you can remember the foiling we did way back you will soon be producing the first part of the picture.  Here though we are using Bondaweb and using a hot iron rather than waiting for glue to dry before applying the foils.

Always use foils COLOUR SIDE UP.

One colour on top of another gives interesting results and using second-hand foil is better than a brand new piece as the gaps in it make the work more natural.  When it is a completely new piece of foil the iron has to be used artistically to avoid big flat areas of colour and to keep away from the straight edges of the foil

I have used something called fusible film for the river, the moon and the church.  It has a shiny surface and does fuse to Bondaweb as well.


More to follow on all this bur for now here are some images of the partly finished and fully finished picture.

To be continued .....