Cotton Bag: Poppies

Who'd have thought it, eh? Poppies on a cotton bag... it just had to be done. No hill, no sky, but still it turned out a little more complex than my initial idea. That's the trouble with including backgrounds, y'see.

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Cotton Bag: Driverwolf *Special*

This is a special bag, made as a raffle prize for the Driverwolf Quiz Night at Kingsclere Primary School in September. Driverwolf are a British Formula 1 Sidecar racing team (as in motorbike and sidecar). The guy at the back - he's the passenger, although his role is anything but static - is a friend. Which is why I did this bag.

                                                                                       
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Cotton Bags: Two more Lego Minifigures

Two Lego figures for the petrolheads; here are the Biker, and the Champion Racing Car Driver, rendered on cotton bags.

Another motor-related bag is right ahead of you...

Cotton Bag: Eager Companions

This is a "special", done on request for a friend, who has a friend, who dotes on her pets. Well, soon she will have her pets on a tote...

Cotton Bag: Red Admiral

I feel that I've been neglecting the "real" butterflies. Here's one familiar to many - the Red Admiral. This large, distinctive butterfly is a summer migrant to Britain; its favourite food is nettles.
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Cotton Bags: 2 Lego Minifigures

Apparently there was a tennis thingummybob on today, but I think my tennis player is the wrong gender. The fellow in blue - well, he was Brick Bond in a former painting. I suppose he still is; he's just changed his waistcoat. And maybe he's watching the tennis. The lady has been painted but this was done straight from the figure.

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Cotton Bag: Yin Yang Dragons 2

And here is the second of my attempts to twist these flexible fellows into the Taoist symbol for light and dark. I wasn't quite satisfied with the first one; while it did work, it had too much space in it. This time, the dragons (a different pair) are trying really hard - you can see that they are both having to hold their tails in place!

Cotton Bag: Yin Yang Dragons

I had thought that I had done with the dragons for a while (they're great fun to draw and noodling with the Celtic-style knotwork and borders was fun, too, but after a while you just need to do something else...) but then I had the idea of using the dragons' vaguely comma-like shapes to make a yin-yang symbol. Or something rather like it.

Cotton Bag: Dragon Knot 2

Here's another tangled dragon, a development on the dragon knot design. I thought it was going to be the last - for now - but I had a new idea for the dragons.

Watch this space blog...

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Three Cotton Bags: Five Dragons

Double trouble! These two dragons are rather tangled up in the single strand border... maybe they ate the other strand(s)?

Cotton Bag: Dragon Knot

It looks happy enough, but this dragon seems to have got a bit tied up in the border - maybe it's pretending to be part of the border. Whether it's lying in wait or hiding from someone (or something), I wouldn't like to say.

Cotton Bag: Red and black dragon, entwined in Celtic border

Is this one more gothicky?

Cotton Bags: Ice and fire, together, with glitter

I added a spot of glitter to the fire dragon, and here it is with its deadly rival, the ice dragon.

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Cotton Bag: Black Spiral Dragon

More glitter! This started off as a gothic dragon - all black and purple and red - but then I added some yellow and orange in the background to enhance the contrast and I wasn't quite so sure about the description. "Black" will do.

Cotton Bag: Celtic Ice Dragon

If there's a fire dragon, it's perfectly reasonable to expect there to be an ice dragon.So here it is. I'm not sure that you can tell from the main photograph, but I added some glitter to enhance the icy effect - and because the glitter fabric paints I had ordered arrived in the post yesterday. It might be easier to see in this oblique close-up:

Cotton Bag: Celtic Fire Dragon

Everybody knows that dragons (sometimes) breathe fire. This one certainly does! I think it might be a bit annoyed that it's got its tail caught in the loop of the Celtic border, actually.

Cotton Bag: Blue Spiral Celtic Dragon

The second stage in the (r)evolution of the spiral dragon design. This fellow is largely done in ordinary wax crayons - apart from the paler green background, which is fabric wax crayon simply because I liked the colour better. I added a few loops to the border to make it more interesting.

Cotton Bag: Spiral Celtic Dragon

The dragon has got longer and acquired wings... he's also moved out of the butterfly house and into a circle (or should that be a disc?). I have plans to sell these bags at a local fete and it occurred to me that the butterflies might be ever so slightly challenging to the masculinity of some potential customers (and other customers might just prefer a disc). Plus, it's always nice to try new ideas out. This one might (r)evolve a little over the next few iterations.

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Cotton Bag: Red Celtic Dragon Butterfly

I don't make any claims for the authentic Welshness of this one, but it will soon be on its way to Wales, to be put through its paces by one of my friends.

It was done with "ordinary" wax crayons, as per my last post. The results are indistinguishable from the fabric wax crayons at this stage.

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Cotton Bag: Celtic Dragon Butterfly

I was thinking of doing another fantasy butterfly, but I wasn't sure where I'd go with it. Fortunately, I was struck with inspiration at work today. This is based on the Common Blue template.

Only one bag left to decorate...

EDIT(1) And this one is SOLD.

EDIT(2) However, I do have a few large, plain handkerchiefs; here's one that almost matches the bag. I decorated it in pen, because the idea of trying to blow your nose on a waxed surface is just plain wrong. Just in time for the end of the hayfever season...

>Atchoo!<

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