Wednesday, October 31, 2012

More fabric bowls

I have just begun!  But I wanted to share more... here are the 3 I have completed so far:

 I love the shape of this one... it's a wider diameter at the bottom, and I made it taller as well.

I'm almost done with this one using Christmas fabric, but I'm about out of clothesline, so it will need to wait until I get home from the store later today.  I learned yesterday that it is possible to splice the clothesline... I trimmed the frayed ends, then using a heavy duty cotton thread and needle, I stitched and wound to anchor both ends together before wrapping with the fabric.  Another thing I have learned... DON'T FORGET TO PUT THE CAP BACK ON THE GLUESTICK, SILLY!  They do tend to dry out if you leave them open... duh!
I must admit that I am totally smitten with making these, and my brain is working overtime to come up with other color combinations I would like to use.  If you are wondering why I suddenly veered off into making fabric bowls from my multitude of other projects, maybe this will help you to understand:

This is just part of my accumulation of fabric that is threatening to take over my studio and the guest room next door!  I have to do something with it, so why not these wonderful bowls?  More to come...

2 comments:

Cate Rose said...

These are awesome, Judy! xo

Kim Barron said...

They look great.

What about braided rugs? I bit bigger than bowls - good or bad.

And off topic, a person commented on my blog so I had to check out her work.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/94954191@N00/sets/
She has some really nice items. On one of them she mentions taking an online class from http://www.candiedfabrics.com/
Not that you need any more ideas or blogs to follow. (where is that evil looking smilie?)