Glue Gun Stencils: What Fun!

Making hot glue gun stencils was an absolutely fun time inspired by Traci Bautista's "Printmaking Unleashed" book (North Light Books).  That is MAKING the stencils was so much fun.  I actually use the "stencils" as rubbings.   In making them, just make sure you connect the glue line enough times to keep the lines together without falling apart. (My original post was on Dec. 14, 2015.)

Glue gun stencils - be sure to connect the lines
often so the stencil doesn't fall apart

Here are some images of the rubbings I made:

Embroidered Collages: Small is good!

I have been working on small pieces, as well as dolls, and love the ability to take pieces from my tubs of handprinted, dyed and painted scraps to make what I am calling Improvisational Embroidered Collages.  Taking one piece that looks inspiring and adding it to another with stitching satisfies that part of me that can't through away anything, especially fabric that I've worked to hand dye, print, paint or embellish.  These are my most recent pieces:

Jennifer Gould "Purple Clouds on the Horizon,"  8" x 6", synthetics, cotton; deconstructed screen printing (DSP), rubbing, printing, stamping, embroidery

Jennifer Gould "Radiating Spiral," 5" x 7.5", Indian dyed/printed cotton, synethics, sheers; stenciling, fine line printing, hand and machine embroidery

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Jennifer Gould, "Out There," 6" x 11", cotton, synthetics; hand printed,
stamped, drawn, embroidered