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This evening I took part one of a class on textile surface design. One of the projects we worked on was marbling fabric using shaving cream and acrylic paint! It was fun. My friend Isolde took the class too. Hope she’ll post hers!

To make these, we spread cheap shaving cream on a plastic bag (surface protectant), dripped thin acrylic paint on the cream, and then swirled it around using various implements (fork, chopstick, spatula…). Then we took a piece of cotton muslin and patted it down over the whole mess. Left it to soak/set for about 5 minutes, then peeled it off and rinsed it under running water. I liked making swirl patterns! These aren’t quite dry yet.

I think I’ll do some cool random stitchery over these later on…

Cross-posted at Thing-a-day

Due to my Superbowl party yesterday, I slacked off on the first day of Thing-a-day, but I made two things today to make up for it!

Thing 1: A crystal ball made from seed beads and Swarovski crystal beads (4mm size). I’ll probably make another one of these on another day, so I can make a pair of earrings.

Thing 2: My husband is off on a business trip for a few days and I miss him a helluva lot. He’s a hardcore retro gamer, so I thought I’d do a little pixely cross stitchery in his honor.

Itsa me Mario! With fire power!

Cross posted at Thing-a-day