SLLU - Stitch a Little Landscape - undyed fabric scraps for painting

This is a curated selection of lightweight, semi-sheer and slightly textured fabrics to accompany my online course, 'Stitch a Little Landscape', which you can find by copying and pasting the following link into your browser:
https://karen-turner-stitching-life.teachable.com/p/stitch-a-little-landscape

In the first section of the course, I demonstrate some basic techniques for painting your own fabrics, and this little taster pack allows you to paint a variety of fabrics in your preferred colours. The more textured or open-weave fabrics will probably be best using the paint-dyeing technique, where wet/damp fabric is pressed into a shallow dish of slightly diluted paint and then left to dry.

You don't need to purchase the course to buy the fabrics, and you don't need to purchase the fabrics to buy the course.

These are the fabrics I use most in my own work, and they are supplied here in small pieces for you to paint in your chosen colours, before stitching into your own landscape scenes. The fabrics are mostly shades of white, off-white and cream and will all take fabric paint really well. For best results you would normally apply paints to wet or damp fabrics. The natural fibres (cotton and silk) can also be dyed rather than painted if you prefer.

The pieces are very small, but there's enough here for several 4" square landscapes; a little does go quite a long way. You can cut up the pieces even smaller before painting so that you can have a few different colours for each type.

I've included some mini skeins of silk and cotton thread in the current batch so that you can try some thread painting as well.

Fabrics and sizes are as follows; all sizes are approximate and may differ slightly between packs; there is one piece of each as follows:

1. medium weight cotton calico 5" x 8" (13 x 20cm)
2. organic cotton calico 7" x 10" (17 x 25cm)
3. soft cotton scrim 4" x 7" (10 x 18cm)
4. cotton mulle, a fine lightweight cotton gauze 5" x 8" (13 x 20cm)
5. cotton sheeting 6" x 8" (15 x 20cm)
6. fine cotton (cream), very lightweight 4" x 6" (10 x 20cm)
7. cotton voile, semi-sheer 6" x 8" (15 x 20cm)
8. cotton muslin (sometimes called cheesecloth outside the UK), lightweight and gauzy 6" x 9" (15 x 23 cm)
9. dress net (tutu net) 4" x 7" (10 x 18 cm)
10. fine tulle, finer and softer than dress net 4" x 6" (10 x 15cm)
11. fine silk chiffon, very floaty 4" x 9" (10 x 23cm)
12. silk organza 4" x 9" (10 x 23 cm)
13. fine silk/cotton blend, nicely textured, very lightweight and gauzy 4" x 10" (10 x 25cm)
14. vintage silk sari strip 3" x 22" (7 x 55cm)
15. silk sari ribbon, about 1-1.5" (2-4cm) wide, cut from vintage saris, about 50" (1.25m). Both silk strips (14 and 15) have raw edges and may have marks, holes, tears and seams.
16. textured chiffon from vintage/secondhand scarves 5" x 7" (12 x 18cm) plus an extra scrap. You can paint this with fabric paints to change the colour, or you can layer under or over another sheer fabric and alter the colour that way
17. Vintage starched-cotton builders' scrim 3" x 36" (7 x 95cm). Quite stiff and scratchy when dry, but softens when wet - you can wash the stiffener out of it before colouring, or just dampen the scrim to apply paint and let it dry as it is. This is excellent for adding to mixed media collage work too.

Threads are supplied as mini skeins on a card and are as follows:
DMC - DMC 6 strand cotton 3 yards
FC - Fine cotton 5 yards
C8 - Perle 8 cotton 5 yards
S12 - Perle 12 silk 5 yards
SB - Silk boucle 3 yards

I'll include a printed list of fabrics in each pack so that you can identify the pieces before unpacking.

UK postage will be via standard first class; all overseas post will be via Royal Mail International Tracked.

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