Here are some pix from a workshop I attended last week. "Fabrication Fantasia"
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tutor was Australian, Lisa Walton of Sydney. Her website isdyedheaven.com It was great fun and a wonderful technique of making your own fantasy fabric using threads, ribbons, sparkly fabrics and wash-away fuseable stuff. I shall definitely use that technique in some of my future work! I made the piece sampler size, and may use it as a pretty table topper. I also accomplished the technique many of you smart quilters already know -- decorative threads in the bobbin and quilting the reverse. Not so scary after all .Cheers Bronnie