Artsy Tote Bag, Gelli Plate Painting
Learn to create your own fabric prints, using Gell-Plates and acrylic paint. Work with linen and Shape Flex fusible interfacing.Quilt with your walking foot, and embellish your tote!
Class Requirements:
1. Black linen. 1/2 yard, cut two squares 13”x13”and cut 2 straps, 4” x 20” OR
any fabric of your choice. Keep in mind that a solid or a fabric that reads
as solid is preferable.
2. Lining, cotton fabric, 3/8 yard of your choice, cut two squares, 13” x 13”
3. Cotton batting, cut 2 squares 14”x14”
4. Shape Flex SF101, 1 1/8 yard, cut two squares 13”x13”
and cut 2 strips 4”x20”
5. Embellishments: Your original Gell plate prints 5”x7” - at least three of these
Large Button of your choice or a custom covered Dritz Button Cover Half
Ball Size 1 7/8”, plus any other items you wish to use.
6. Glue such as Roxanne’s (handy if needed for embellishments)
7. Disposable gloves (for painting)
8. Sewing machine and typical supplies
Walking foot
9. Hand sewing needle and thread
10. Various colors of thread
11. A few small clips
Supplies Provided by Instructor:
Original pattern
Gell plates
Acrylic paints
Breyer
Marking tools
Palette
Card stock for Gell plate
Plane paper for
| Materials Included: | Use of Gelli Plates, Acrylic Paint, and tools to create your painted fabric. |
| Instructor: | Catherine Lavoie |
| Instructor Bio: | Catherine Lavoie is a Connecticut native, photographer, quilter and fiber artist. She is also a retired Nurse Practitioner with 50-years in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing practice. When not in the studio her favorite place is walking in the woods listening to the wisdom of the trees. Amish quilts were Lavoie’s entry into quilting. Doing everything by hand was a joy until the rotary cutter came out and that changed everything. She studied fine art photography with Tom Hricho in New Haven and eventually found ways to put photographs onto fabric. Around the turn of the century, Lavoie embraced a new movement called “art quilts”. At this time she began experimenting with paints, stamps, photographs, natural elements affixed to quilts and other experiments that are better off kept in silence. Lavoie is a member of City Gallery in New Haven; the Studio Art Quilt Associates; and the Textile Study Group of New York. Her work has been shown at City Gallery, Kent Art Association, Keller Liddell Gallery in New Haven, Hera Gallery in Wakefield, RI, El Barrio in East Harlem, Guilford Arts Center, and the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury. Currently, Lavoie is exploring gel plates to create mono-prints on fabric. She is also crating various soft sculptures and large abstract quilts for the wall. She sometimes mounts her fiber art onto stretched canvas and she is beginning to teach what she has learned. For more information you may visit her website at: www.catherinelavoieartist.com Or Instagram: @catherinelavoieartist |
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