Fabric/Fiber Art ATCs

My favorite fabric technique is is confetti collage- layers of bits, snippets, and strings fused down with a top sheet of tulle stitched down to sandwich it all together. For an open ATC swap, I made a sheet and cut it up to make four cards. The best thing about this technique is the final fabric is so unique that every card comes out different. Here is a before and after.

Metallic ATCs

Dang! I finished the two cards for the Metallic Fiber Art ATC swap and sent them out yesterday, but forgot to take a pic. The one rule was it had to have at least one piece of metal on each card. In the middle I sewed on a brass key with gold metallic thread and also used a few "liquid silver" beads mixed in with the glass beads, sequins, and a bit of free embroidery. I had also used a super shiny gold fabric, found on clearance after Christmas, to frame the keys.

No Sew ATC and a Clean Drum Carder

Just finished a couple ATCs for the No Sew swap in my group on Swap-bot. The idea was to use fabric and fibers to make cards, but the only rule is to not use any kind of stitching to make them. My other swaps have had a No Glue rule, so this was a challenge for me since my fabric cards never have any glue.



My old Patrick Greene drum carder has been working overtime carding up a large batch of a fiber blend. It definitely needed a thorough cleaning! The pile on the left is wool/fiber cleaned out from the teeth of both drums. And the nasty little pile on the right is what came out from around the washers on the sides of the drums! I couldn't believe how much fiber got caught and wound up on the drum axles. 8O Some of it is black with oil, but there are some pathces of color I recognise from years ago!