Embossed Velvet

Ok, so today in Fabrics we embossed velvet! It's SUPER EASY and comes out really nice. Basiclly you pick out a rubber stamp or stamps you want to put on your velvet, place the stamp rubber up, place the velvet face down over it, place a buffer fabric like cotton/muslin over that and place your iron over it and press for 10 seconds NO STEAM! And when you take it off...BAM! It's in your fabric and looking very awesome.

Now, if you find you get holes when you remove it then you might need to get a cheap iron that doesn't steam because it's the steam holes coming through.

Also, you can do this with a lot of pile fabrics. Corduroy, Velveteen, etc. Just keep in mind that you can't wait velvet so your embossing wont come out, but if you wash your corduroy after embossing your pattern will come out. Which is kind cool if you want to change it up!

Pictures of mine coming soon, probably after the weekend.

Ok, not an awesome picture by my phone, but it'll work til I get back to my room after the weekend.

Marble Dying

So today in Fabrics class we did marble dying. First impression: omg that tray is full of goo. I don't want to do this. But then Prof. Chids demo-ed for us and I was like...holy crap that's awesome. Let's rock this. So after getting over the goo I made these two designs. The pink/black one first and the green/black one after. You can see a little of the pink got on the green one too from the first batch.

If you've never done this before but are interested definitely look up how to do it and what you'll need to make water into this goo, and where to buy the correct dye. I just wish we had more than one sink to clean up with because we could have done more but wasted a lot of time waiting in line. OH! And since the fabric is specially treated to take the dye, once you place it in the solution it sucks up the dye and you can go right over and wash it off and the dye wont come off. It's magical!!

I would totally do this again. We got a hand out of instructions so that was a bonus! If anyone wants a copy of my handout and I scan it and send it to you.

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Got the directions scanned if anyone's interested.
Front of Handout

Back of Handout

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Katie