Chapter 12
Mixed Mediaand Letterforms
Design Technique Explorations
Mixed media and collage are exciting and accessible forms of expression, whose discovery has given birth to an exciting new craft movement in this country and beyond. I discovered collage when I misspelled a word on a fabric piece I was working on. I layered a piece of fabric over the typo and lettered it again, leaving the frayed edges and topstitching. No one was the wiser, and I loved the freedom the process gave me to work with multiple layers. It is difficult to make mistakes that cannot be corrected in collage.
On my AIDS project quilt piece, I transferred my friend Ed’s picture onto fabric and sewed the piece onto the quilt. But, this was only the beginning. I then added ...
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