August Challenge
The theme is PLAY!
Notice that this is in capital letters, underlined and has an exclamation point.
So, mandatory to August Challenge is a new technique tried with fabric, without self censure and too much judgmental constriction.
Children playing just DO IT, using whatever comes to hand. They streamline and elaborate on the game and the results as the process goes on.
So preferably do not purchase something new. There is plenty around to play with that you already own. But you will have to maybe stretch you creativity muscles.
Print a photo on fabric then cut it up, haul out that old packet of dye you bought two years ago. Or cut up a nice summer beet and use that as a stamp on a fabric. Paint your fabric with bleach thru the bag your onions came in. Color fabric with crayons and iron the results. Use weird fabrics like fake fur and satin together. Use nail polish or acrylic paints on your fabric. Take your leftover small scraps with heat-n-bond on the back and glue them down in a weird order, then embellish. Draw around a leaf with a marker. Whatever! PLAY!
There are lots of oddball techniques all over the internet for this......Try something new on, or with, fabric just for the delight and frustration of trying it............then put it together into some kind of block.
Just to do a block for the sheer fun of it.
And hurry up and let us see it................
(You can of course add whatever else you like in terms of theme or the creation of final piece if you like, or just have the fun of doing the single block.)