FABRIC ART and GARDEN CLUB
The Fabric Art and Garden Club
We are a community of crafty nature-lovers, growing our artistic skill through painting on fabric using Inktense; attracting pollinators into our gardens.. Membership supports habitat restoration. No prior experience required!
Transform your Art and Garden
BENEFITS FOR YOU:
- Growing your Gardening Knowleadge
- Getting really skilled at inktense painting on fabric
- Grow your artistic skills and knowledge
- Making a difference by helping the environment in our own gardens; giving habitat to butterflies
- Educate others with the nature themed fabric art you produce.
- Transforming your fabric art into more unique, colorful and artistic creations.
- Comradery, social, new friendships with common interests
- Fun!
Bringing Nature into Your textile Creations and Garden
PATTERNS
You will receive free, whichever pattern we are working on in the monthly workshops.
WORKSHOP
Every month we will offer a workshop over zoom, 60 to 90 minutes. You will learn how to paint on fabric with Inktense, Art techniques that will help you with all your fabric art, Garden knowledge, especially about butterflies!
And you have will have access to previous months Workshops!
PRIVATE GROUP
Opportunity to join our private Facebook group moderated by a scientist to verify the information is true.
Transform your Art and Garden: AllPast Lectures included
Along with ongoing Future Lectures
COLOR CHART
Start here with a Pre-recorded Workshop where you will learn the different tools and materials used in Painting on Fabric with Inktense.
You will receive this Color Chart Pattern as soon as you join,
A $5 Value!
About:
Are you frustrated by not knowing exactly what color your pencils are going to make on your fabric? Are you tired of having to paint something multiple times to get the right color? Would you like see what other colors your pencils can make by blending them? I was tired of this too, that's why I made this color chart and matrix to solve these problems! It allows you to know exactly how your colors are going to look! Saving you time, frustration, and money.
You'll even have different values of your pencils to reference.
Gardening Talk:
Gardening Talk:
Pollinators are in trouble due to:
-habitat loss
-pesticides
-climate change
-parasites
-disease
How we can help and why:
-Plant native plants acclimated to our climate, growing season, soil
-Pollinators co-evolved with their native plants
they feed on specific plants
-Butterflies only lay eggs on their host plant
Example: Monarchs need Milkweed
BLANKET FLOWER Pre-Recorded Workshop
and Template ($35 Value each)
About:
Blanket Flower - Gaillardia
Learn:
Analogous Colors
Color Blending to create a gradient
Using Derwent Inktense pencils on fabric
Gardening Talk:
Feeding Birds and Butterflies:
Baby birds need caterpillars
Nectar plants for Butterflies
When picking nectar plants, choose species that bloom at different times of the year, to give butterflies year around food.
Blanket Flower : Gaillardia spp., blooms in Summer
Goldenrod: Later summer to Fall
Clover: Spring to Summer
December 14th, 2023 Workshop
Blue Flag Iris video
Learn:
- how to make a Trivet/mini ironing pad
- How to make this Iris pillow
- What is negative space
- about Biodiversity in your yard
Live Workshops every Month
You'll be able to attend a live (or recorded if you cant' make it) Workshop every month, a $100 value!
You'll be walked through patterns and finish Inktense sheets, learn how you can use them and, be able to ask questions.
You will also learn a different topic in Butterfly Garden each month from a Scientist. You'll be helping to save the pollinators!! Priceless
So, for $15/ month you get over $100 in value!
Club MembersReviews
Truly enjoy learning!
I have truly enjoyed learning about Inktense pencils.
It’s fun, relaxing and everyone is very encouraging.
I love the things I’ve made and look forward to making more.
I also enjoy talking about butterflies with the club members.
Shirley Lohman - 11/20-2023
Glad I Joined!
I am really glad that I joined. I am learning things about nature that I did not know and I become more fascinated every day. The pace of the fabric art/ inktense class is perfect for a newbie and I am fascinated by the range of colors I can get on fabric with one pencil. It is a real JOY to get together and create and learn with Laura's class.
Ellen Brady- 11/19/2023
Workshop Reviews
RELAXING AND ENJOYABLE
Laura is very knowledgeable and helpful to people trying to learn the techniques of fabric painting using the Inktense pencils. She has a lot of examples and is always willing to expand on a topic.
Culiece Nelson - 3/22/2023
FRIENDLY, NON STRESSFUL!
You made everyone feel comfortable/accepting with their skills (or lack of perceived talent!) in a friendly, non stressful environment. The examples were awesome!
Nancy Dean - 3/22/2023
BUTTERFLIES!
Laura, Thank you very much for instructing our SAIL class about Florida native plants, butterflies and our Wetlands. We then learned to paint nature on fabric adding embellishment with embroidery
Sharon Latimer - 3/1/2023
CREATIVE
I took Photos to Landscape class in the hopes of figuring out how to transfer photos to fabric successfully and it delivered! Laura showed a few different techniques you can use for the process inclu
Marta Horlick - 9/2/2020
Workshop Reviews
REALLY FUN!
This Iris Pattern was really fun. I haven't done a flower like this and your directions were great!
Kaye Collins - 8/2/2022
PLEASED!
I’m quite pleased with the results. Ordering pencils from Amazon today. Thank you for a wonderful workshop!
Karmel Sowers - 8/7/2022
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