Success

Since we had another snow day where everything got cancelled, I took advantage of another day inside and finished my second cube.  If you didn't read my last blog entry,  do that first so that you can see what I'm talking about.

I found this luscious snow dyed fabric in my stash and took a few pictures before I covered it all up with stencils.

I had pinned a piece of paper to the corner, telling me that I had used Olive Green, Azure Blue and ?, so if I ever want to duplicate it, I have at least two of the colors I used.  I think it is much more interesting to use a very mottled fabric as a background for the stencils.

And here is my finished cube.  I made each square bigger that the last time and when I sewed them together and draped them over the box, I thought it looked messy and that a slipcover was the way to go. I Googled "how to slipcover a cube" and found a good tutorial.  The first time around it was a little big and I had to take it in, but I like the fit and am glad to have it finished.

I use Shiva Paint Sticks with the stencils in blue, bronze and metallic gold.  I layered stencil on stencil.  I like working with paint sticks because you can vary the intensity of the color and  I like the way the colors of the fabric show through.  

One more thing.  I didn't have enough fabric to print my time sayings on, so I took a piece of the fabric and copied it onto a piece of white fabric with my printer.  It looked exactly the same as the fabric I was copying.  Then I printed my words from the computer onto my new fabric. After seeing this picture, I thought that the pieces of fabric with the words were too dominant, so I went over each of them with some Shiva paint on a stencil brush so that they blend in more.  Much better, I think.

I'm linking up with Off the Wall Friday.