My friend, Ruth Anne, once invited a group of us to her “barn” for a messy project. This time it was dyeing. Our first project was to dye 8 different gradations of black. All with the same dye, just in different saturations/strengths. Since black dye is made up from other colors, it will sometimes separate…
I’m very comfortable using commercial and hand-dyed fabrics in my creations, but I have a few quirky fabrics that I have to treat differently. Things that ravel, ones that melt, and thin silks. I recently pulled out a few of these to think about how I might use them. The yellow-green fabrics are the result…
My sister and I had a great time attending a recent scarf dying class. Taught by my good friend, Jo-Ann Jensen, she provided me with plain silk, knowing that I’d want to use it in quilts. Of course! She first taught us how to do a tie-dye sort of thing. She calls her geodes. Well,…