As usual, I really enjoyed my recent dying session. I was trying out a new color, Tangerine, so I did a lot of swatching to get to know how it worked.
The swatches above show what happened when I mixed tangerine with each of my other 7 colors, in 3 ratios, and 3 values. Yes, it takes a while, but the results are worth it. I’ve done this with each color and have them all sorted, and LABELED, in a book.
When dying fabrics, I often repeat colors and motifs, so the pieces will work together well. This time, I did quite a few pieces with large, squarish meandering. Some of them were in high contrast colors and others were more subtle.
A few more examples, (with one exception.) Several of these were mono printed, and I’ve written an article about that process.
These are fabrics I dyed that will probably go together in the same quilt. As you can see, I also played around with a “bean” shape. I think these will work well together.
More dyed fabrics in the next post!
Ellen Lindner
P.S. See the earlier swatching I did with my other colors.
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