Gold Foil and Misty Fuse - Part Two

Once again I painted the white Misty Fuse, but this time with Jacquard Dye-Na-flow paints. This photo shows the webbing after it had been removed from the freezer paper – the colours are so much more vibrant than when using acrylic paint.
I did find that these fabric paints took an awful lot longer to dry than the acrylics and the underside, the side which had been next to the freezer paper, was very tacky - the webbing kept wanting to stick to itself, but I would certainly use them again for this technique.

In each of the samples I have laid the painted Misty Fuse with the tacky side facing up.

For the first sample I have laid a sheet of painted Misty Fuse on the bottom, layered with Angelina standard fix fibres and a plain white Misty Fuse on the top.This photo shows the coloured side uppermost.

And this photo shows the white side uppermost.
I bonded this piece to a dark coloured velvet and machine stitched in rows before bonding a copper coloured foil, quite liberally on top.
This is the same piece after a session with the heat gun
In this sample I have sandwiched a layer of standard fix Angelina Fibres on top of a sheet of Irise foil between two sheets of coloured webbing.
This is the upper side.
And this is the back.
As you can see, the front and the back always look slightly different all depending on how you layer the ‘fillings’.

This side has green foil bonded on top.
And was then zapped.
And this side has gold foil bonded on top.
And was then zapped.
This sample has a bottom layer of coloured Misty Fuse with Angelina Fibres and snippets of Irise foil on top. There are also gold sequins included by accident. I had a packet of something called ‘Angel Hair; which I thought might be nice to use. It’s a gold fibre with lots of gold star sequins attached. But when I took it out of the packet it is very coarse – pity the poor angel who has hair like this – and the sequins were loose so of course they went everywhere and no way was I going to pick them all out of the Angelina!
The top layer to finish the sandwich is black Misty Fuse. This particular piece looks very rich with the red showing through the black – well worth taking further.
Black side uppermost.

Coloured side uppermost.
Oops! I was a bit heavy handed with the iron when I bonded the foil. All you need is a very light touch and the foil will just adhere to the raised areas.
I stitched this piece to Kunin felt so I could see what would happen when I came to zap it with the heat gun.
I also used the heat gun on the back, the Kunin felt side, and this close up shows you how the colours peek through when viewed from the front.
This piece is black Misty Fuse with Angelina fibres and snippets of metallic thread.
I thought I would have a go at making the bowl as in the original article by Brenda Weeks for Workshop on the Web.

I machine stitched in a rough circle to give some stability to the base of the bowl and bonded gold foil on top.
After dissolving the Solufleece the piece of fabric was moulded to the inside of the bowl and left to dry. Once dry the heat gun was used, still with the fabric inside the bowl.
And this is the result.

Hmmm! I think I really need to have another go at this - it was such a lovely piece of fabric to begin with :)
For the final sample, which I forgot to photograph before using, I used white Misty Fuse with trapped Angelina Fibres and metallic threads inside then used a zig-zag machine stitch on top. On this piece I used a wonderful turquoise coloured foil - available from Fibre in-Form.
I cut strips from this one to make beads.
Each strip was wrapped around a knitting needle then held in place with a pin before using the heat gun on it to secure the ends.
Once they had cooled I rubbed them lightly with Treasure Gold – well, I just had to use it somewhere didn't I? :)