More Alabama Chanin

The gored skirt saga begins....

 First step is to lay your pieces out. Luckily my husband has large sheets of cardboard laying about. I washed and ironed my pieces. Then I stretched them a bit with tape.

 Here are some of the tools. I used the spray adhesive on the back of the stencil to secure it to the fabric. I used the painters tape on the fabric. For the paint, I used a combination of white acrylic paint (.50 at Walmart) and Golden Fabric painting medium, GAC 900. I mixed the paint and the fabric medium until it was the consistency of heavy cream.

Anna's Garden Stencil I downloaded this from the website. However, I didn't realize the download was sized at 18"  x 22".  My first stencil was super tiny. I opened the download in Illustrator and tile printed it. I think it was about 8 sheets of paper. I transferred the design to a large sheet of mylar and then cut it out with an exacto knife.

Here is the skirt laid out after the stencil. I wanted to make sure to move the stenciled fabric off of the cardboard. I didn't want the wet paint to stick to the cardboard.

detail of the stencil

While I was at it, I went ahead and made some wrapping paper. I used construction paper and silver spray paint.

So the next step is to let the fabric paint dry for 24 hours and heat set it with an iron. Then I will attach the gray backing fabric to the stencil tops and start stitching....