Comments on: Minimalism and The Small Door of Your Death

By: Sheryl St. Germain

Sheryl St. Germain — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 15:19:39 +0000

Thanks much for this, Penny. I have used Wonder Under before but I never thought to use it in this way. I’ve never tried stretching the canvas on stretcher bars, but will look into that!

By: Penny Gold

Penny Gold — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 14:34:05 +0000

There are other ways to display the piece, too, and I’m thinking Claire has done these as well. If you would like to preserve the raw edges of the fabric, think of the cloth as a piece of paper. It can be affixed to a mat for background support (with the equivalent of double-stick tape) and put in a picture frame (or not). If you’re OK with straight edges, one finish I’ve done a couple of times and really like is to stretch the cloth on stretcher bars (like it’s canvas to be painted), either as is, or by adding an extra rim of fabric that will be around the side and back of the bars. When I’ve done this, I’ve layered the piece with another layer of plain fabric, just to give it extra strength over the bars. About double-stick tape: there is a double-sided fusible tape for fabric that I’ve used. You can also get sheets of double-sided fusible if you’d like to use larger pieces. Wonder Under, by Pellon I think, is good.

By: Sheryl St. Germain

Sheryl St. Germain — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 12:56:00 +0000

You’re probably right, Penny. I have been struggling with how to finish these pieces that I made with Claire. It’s hard to put a hanging sleeve on them (although I did with one of them), because it’s difficult to hide the stitches because there’s no backing. With another one I used the “pillow case“ method, and that was OK but since there was no quilting it still didn’t seem to hang right. I could use Velcro sewed to cotton and then sewn to the back – that is how Claire sometimes does hers – but again the stitches would show, even if I was very careful. So I decided to try very minimal quilting in black following a few of the wrinkles to see what that would do. Will post when I’m done.

By: Penny Gold

Penny Gold — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 02:45:01 +0000

This cloth is such a beautiful, haunting composition all on its own. I’d be tempted to leave it as it is, an abstract painting. The wrinkles in the cloth give it texture as well as line. Is it possible that stitching distracts from it rather than adds? I don’t know.