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machine fusion fabric - step 1

by Chloe on March 10th, 2007

I’m using a lot of different materials for this project:

I’ve got 100% cotton fabric, heavy-duty interfacing, water soluable fabric, hand-dyed raw silk & wool, silk floss & yarn trimmings.

For your first step, cut a rough square out of your fabric and fuse the heavy-duty interfacing to the back:

Now for the fun part!  Tease the raw silk & wool apart and start laying it on the fabric to form a background.  Don’t try and cover too much - part of the this is being able to see a little hint of the fabric peeking through:

Part two of this post coming later :-)

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