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Comment by Joy Vale on September 11, 2009 at 10:01am

Nola, a beautiful piece of work. Typical of the era and very Aussie..... Joy

Comment by Joyce Ann Garner on September 10, 2009 at 12:47am

Adorable! This looks like a fun place to live. Love the mixed mediums.

Comment by Nola Roberts on September 9, 2009 at 9:30am

Hi Kate, I use Thin Acrlyic or fabric paint. My therory is Whenyou get Acrylic on your clothing as when I was teaching kids to paint, it is permanent. I do set each section as i paint with a hot iron to stop bleeding into the other colours but if you just want a soft blended background you wet your calico ( which is my choice of material) first. I shared my way of doing paint and stitch with an art friend years ago. She choose water colour paint on silk as she was awatercolour artist but unfortunately some of her work is fading. Water colour pigment is a powder an sits on the top of the fibres . Were as acrylic or fabric paint goes into the fibres as a dye. It can be an exciting experience painting fabric then stitching on the top for texture. I say I paint to add colour only and not doing a painting on the calico then add the stitching for texture.

Comment by Kate O'Hara on September 9, 2009 at 7:35am

Hit the "View Full Size", and see it is actually smaller. Beautiful. May I ask what kind of paint you use?

Comment by Kirsten on September 9, 2009 at 4:30am

That's beautiful, I wish I could see it in person!
To try the combination of painting and stitching is definately on my to-do list.