Using Quirky Fabrics

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 of a deconstructed screen printing play day.  A recent scarf dyeing class produced the blue and blue-green fabrics on the right and top.  The remaining fabrics were scraps given to me by Judith Content.  All of these are silk, most of them very lightweight.

I was hoping I could use them all together, but I quickly abandoned that idea.

But, what about using just the blue-greens, with a healthy dash of burnt orange?

Yes.  That has potential.

What can I do with the yellow-green fabric?  Can I play up the red squiggly parts?

Yes, that shows promise.

Now, where to go from here?

Ellen Lindner