I meant to post this sooner than this — it’s now a week since I was at the Festival!

There’s a vendor who is always at the Creativ Festival called Len’s Mills Stores. I hardly ever go into their area as it is usually mobbed. One could get hit on the head by the flying bolts of fabric! Well, okay — not quite but you get the idea.

On Saturday, I found an aisle in the Len’s Mills area with next to no people in it and decided to take a good look. I am SO glad that I did. I found two batiks that are absolutely perfect background for the two-fabric applique patterns! Although this fabric didn’t photograph well it will, I think, be just right for the Seahorse background.

This next one is rather interesting. It has got a gold metallic coating on it — rather a lot of it, actually. I’m thinking a fair bit of the metallic will wash out so am undecided right now which side of it I will use. This is the side with the gold dust. This is for another of the two-fabric applique patterns. My choice is between this (and it is much darker in person than this photo shows — I think the metallic is affecting how the camera reads it):

and this, the side with no metallic:

For some reason, the camera will not take a good picture of the batiks. The first one has much more of a blue cast to it than the photo is showing.

The second appears much much lighter in the photograph, even though the flash was turned off, than it actually is. I’ve now washed it once and the amount of gold metallic that came off was incredible — and there is still a lot of it left on the fabric. I think I’ll let it soak for a few hours tomorrow and see how much more of the gold comes off. I have a feeling that it will be substantial. I love the fabric no matter what happens as far as the metallic bits go, so this is more a matter of getting it off the fabric now rather than having it coming off on my fingers when I’m working with it.

I have read about these Bohin mechanical chalk pencils, but wasn’t expecting to find one! When I did, I immediately grabbed it. I tried it out on a bit of fabric and I’m impressed. The chalk definitely comes off the fabric without a problem.

It was a very rainy, dark day Friday. What do the kitties do on rainy dark days? Sleep. I couldn’t resist getting this shot of Lester.