free motion quilting designs were this students inspiration for the peice with the leaves
My third class in St. Paul was Heavy Metal Play Day, I was so excited to finally have the opportunity to teach this class after planning it almost 2 years ago.
The first half of the class we concentrated on working with aluminum; embossing it by sampling the various tools in the kit, there are 10 different tips and embossing wheels, embossing the aluminum by rubbing over a leaf texture plate, coloring it with alcohol inks and alcohol based markers, then embossing pre-colored aluminum and sanding it to reveal the silver color on the raised design.
In the second half of class we worked on copper, creating a more detailed image. Because the copper squares are a heavier gauge, they are sturdier and able to handle a lot of elaborate texturing and embossing, giving the images a lot of dimension.
After the embossing was finished the copper was painted with alcohol inks and finally the embossed design was stabilized by adding a self hardening filler to keep it from getting crushed or dented.
I’ll be teaching this class at International Quilt Festival in Long Beach, Friday, July 29th. There are still a few spots left in the class if you’d like to join in the fun.
5 responses to “St Paul Day 3: Metal Workshop”
Love this 🙂
I love these and it looks like so did your students. I wish I were in your class.
It was a lot of fun Trish, maybe we should try and set up a local class.
Hi Judy,
I would like to try my first embossing project at home. What Brand of alcohol ink do you use. Your class looks amazing.
Hi Shelly, thanks, that was such a long time ago, but it was fun! I like Time Holtz or Ranger maybe they are the same but I do not like the Pinata color by Jacquard as much I found them to be kind of sticky.