WOVEN GIFT CARD JOURNALS

WOVEN FABRIC GIFT CARD JOURNALS

BEGINNING 3-D ART

cotton fabric, indigo bucket, tye-dye buckets, solar printing fabric, cardstock in various colors,

multi-colored sewing threads, sewing notions,beads, buttons & other embellishments

Earlier in the year the kids learned how to create a journal with fabric & stitch,

so I thought it would be cool to have them make a whole new decorative piece of fabric

 to cut up and weave with for another journal.

This would be their cover,

and their would be revisiting a former assignment that I didn't have to re-teach

because we were running out of time as it was the end of the year

They had enjoyed the paper weaving so they were excited to give this a try as well..

OMG,

my art room was buzzing with energy as the kids got these journal covers underway.

Because this was their 4th Quarter Final,

I wanted them to revisit and reuse their favorite printing/dyeing or shibori technique

to create a very beautiful piece of fabric 

that was to be cut up and woven into their journal cover page.

The results were spectacular as you will see.

Junior Connie Wu created the most glorious piece of tye-dye to work with.

I brought in my own multi-colored quilting threads for the kids to use as warp string

which they threaded thru a sturdy piece of card stock.

You can really see those multi-colors in the close-up below.

Then they wove their cut weft pieces thru. 

The hardest part for many of them was carefully and exactly cutting 

an opening into another piece of card stock to frame out their weaving with.

This piece of paper was to be the front and back cover of the journals

with an extra flap that covered their knots on the backside of the cover.

Very complicated and had to be demoed many times.

Of course next came the handmade signature papers for their journal pages

which they strung in with waxed linen in a figure eight pattern.

I also required the embellishment of beads on the string ends.

Junior Margaret Yiu also came up with a spectacular piece.

She made 2 tye-dye pieces to work with and alternated them.

So very beautiful wsa this more subtle one by junior Rachel Kannampuzha.

Can you figure out her clever alternation pattern

which makes this look so terrific?

Senior Sarah Woo reused a practice piece that she had made for the Solar Dyed Pillow project.

I love that she chose to weave it with orange paper for more of a mixed media effect.

I also really liked her diagonal lines.

These next two belong to seniors Vicky Hur & Daphne Wang.

Let's see what they did.

I believe Daphne used 2 pieces that went into the indigo bucket.

One light the other more dips for a darker value.

And below is a close up of Vicky's.

Looks like she used a piece of her stitched Shibori fabric thru the center,

and a tye-dye strip on either end.

I really like that effect!

Makes a nice border around the special Shibori piece.

Also note that both Daphne and Vicky are warping on the horizontal rather then the vertical.

Nice!

Below is a close-up of the inside of Vicky's journal pages.

I like that she has used different colors and different sizes of paper 

for more interest.

Also note below on the cover backside

 that there is a flap of card stock that covers all the inside knots and strings.

We used a glue stick for that so it didn't warp the card stock paper.

This little cutie belongs to senior Julie Ahn.

Looks like she also alternated a couple different tye-dye fabrics.

And note that her journal cover opens on the horizontal rather then the vertical.

for that the beads flow over top.

Senior Saba Fatima also chose to have hers open horizontally.

I love her tye-dye fabric as well as how her beads hang thru the middle.

This next one was made by English Teacher Donna Hall,

and she wrote inside it and gave to me as a thank you card/journal at the end of the school year.

What you can't see real well in the photo 

is the tiny pair of scissors that hang with the beads,

 and the metal tag that says "Made with Love".

And let me show you the love and effort that she put inside this journal.

We all loved the effect that junior Lynette Lee got with this piece of paper towel 

that went into the tye-dye bath.

And when she wove with it,

notice the perfect alignment with itself.

So gorgeous!

8th grader James Lara turned out a super cool journal as well.

He dyed thicker cotton string then wove a difficult "Ying-Yang" symbol.

And the buttons looked great over top.

I also appreciated that he incorporated several of his Polymer bead creations from earlier in the year.

Oh my,

look at these pretties by juniors Britney Hong & Samantha Tan.

Both girls made new tye-dye pieces 

and it looks as if they both off set them rather then perfectly lining the strips up over top each other.

It gives both pieces a really op-art type of look.

And then we have 8th grader Yusra Azmi.

Always an outside of the box thinker,

she usually comes up with some very clever,

 never done before ideas.

We all really liked her design and how she wove it.

Instead of setting up he warp vertically or horizontally,

she warped in a circular way like we did on our dream catchers.

I believe she dyed some yarns in our tye-dye buckets,

but it's what she did with pen & ink on her cover that I really enjoy.

A bit of Zentangling.

Ok,

 are you ready for this one by 8th grader Dylan Lin?

It is an absolutely remarkable creation using the stitched Shibori method we learned.

But instead of going into the Indigo bucket,

he went into the black tye-dye bucket for a super cool effect.

Since the black bucket was loosing it's potency,

instead of showing up solid black,

Dylan manged to get lots of purpely grey values

 which made his stitched bug look even scarier.

We end with para-educator Couch Milan.

First he made a lovely piece of tye-dye cloth,

but it's what he did with the cover that we all respected.

Using an x-acto, 

he cut out a nighttime landscape.

What a great idea!! 

So what started with simple paper weaving 

turned into something incredible with these creative young minds.

Thanks all of you for a really wonderful year.