New Wild Gears Video: Wheel-Within-a-Wheel
I made a new video about making three different wheel-within-a-wheel designs using Wild Gears. It’s my personal number one cool thing to do with Wild Gears. I haven’t figured out how to predict the results yet. Just experiment.
For more examples, see this older post.
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Has anyone tried using wild gears to drawn on fabric? Would love to try this and then free motion quilt the design.
Yes, actually I’ve done it. That’s an article I haven’t written yet. I haven’t quite finished the experiment. I got fine point fabric markers (Tee Juice brand) at an art shop and drew designs all over a t-shirt. I stretched the t-shirt over a piece of styrofoam insulation and used glass-headed sewing pins to pin the gears to it as best I could. I still need to heat-set the ink, which you do with an iron.
Thanks for your response. That is useful information to me. I think I will try experimenting.
I should think that a woven fabric would be easier to draw on than a knit one like a t-shirt.
How do you use the larger holes?
They are for making parallel lines, using the donuts that fall out of them (keep them!) as described in this post: https://spirographicart.com/2014/09/06/wild-gears-parallel-lines/
The larger holes make a more rounded version of the same design made with a smaller hole.