Quiltcamp at Ripley: Fun with Painted Textures", October 2022

Ripley WV, was at it's most beautiful the second week in October, as about 150 excited quilters gathered to be part of the annual Quiltcamp.

The focus for my class this year was "Fun with fabric paints". We covered several fabric paint techniques, creating many pieces of fun textures to use in quilts or other textile art projects.

Painting with metallic colors. Lots of creativity here, and lots of experimenting with unusual color combinations. The result is a fairly soft fabric htat you can easily cut and sew, but looks like metal plates, bent and rusted.

Just beautiful how the colors work together here.

Next on the list was painted landscapes. Again lots of very fun colors. Wetting or damping the fabric will make the paint spread and blend.

Nice blending going on here.

Fabric drying on the bench gave this very nice criss/cross pattern as it was drying.

A beautiful landscape . Not much need to be done to this one.

Third technique was paint and salt. Mostly solid colors or two tone colors,  sprinkle with  different salt. 

Let dry and watch all the awesome patterning that develops. 

These are very vivid, like an explosion!

Rock painting is not really with rocks, but two layers of fabric where one is painted and the other layer is twisted. It creates some fun random color patches, which again can be painted to add a second color.

Last, just a little play with spray paint. Scrunch up fabric pieces and randomly spray paint with whatever colors you like. Some of these turned out really nice, and since all these paints are colorfast, they can be used in any quilt project.

This was 4 very fun days with a large group of women from all over the country. Check out "Quiltcamp at Ripley" for next October. There are classes offered for all levels and interests.

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