Friday, June 19, 2015

Prayer Flags

My flags are usually created in an intuitive way and whatever happens in the process is the result, it sort of develops on the way.















These last flags I created were for a specific reason.  A new mother-to-be in our family celebrated this coming event not with a baby shower but a blessingway ‘party’ and the woman in our family created a prayerflag for this spiritual event.

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  1. Love these prayer flags~and really want to make some of my own. I have so much fabric scraps that I have gotten hold of from other friends that it would make the flags even more precious. I am sure, the scraps will tell me what they want to be. :) You have inspired me to get going on this project! Truly small works of art!!! I have enjoyed looking at them, great job!
    Victoria, BC
    Canada

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  2. imaging someone finds these lovely flags decades from now !
    what joy they would still bring!!

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  3. These flags are amazing! I love them Caroline! ❤

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  4. I always wonder how they do the printing on the bias tape, scraps of fabric and ribbons. I have looked but you have to order a roll of the same word or phrase repeated and only on ribbon - I would like to customize some of my jewelry with unique words and phrases as shown here. Anyone know how?

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    1. Hi Sandra, I have use lettered rubber stamps and paint for printing on fabric.
      Let me know if you have any questions...
      Carolyn

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  5. Sandra, do you mean on the twill tape? I'm not sure I see any bias-tape on these. (Won't the creator of these answer your question? Curious that you asked if "anyone" knows how. Hmmm....) Anyway, you can put fabric thru' a printer. It just needs something to stiffen it, so it'll go through without getting jammed up. Do a search and you should find instructions on how to do it. Probably even using an interfacing on some muslin would work. You could also use a spray-ink/paint/acrylic paints with a stencil for words. It actually looks like some of these were done that way. These are lovely!

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  6. Making prayer flags, faith flags, statement banners, & junk journals during the past year was my way of coping with the isolation.

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