One thing I’ve learned while blogging about my dyeing adventures is how to correctly spell the word. 🙂 Thanks to all you readers who pointed out the need for a letter E in the word dyeing. I think I’ve got it now. And I hope you’ll excuse my misspelled pun in the title. 34 fabrics,…
I’ve created quite a few butt-ugly fabrics during my dying experiments. (No offense to butts!) However, I know that I can save most of them, so they’re only “problems,” until I can get around to rescuing them. In the meantime, they’re teaching me what NOT to do. Like screen printing with liquid dye instead of…
Well, once I got going with the dying I really got busy. These are my results at the end of week 1. It all took longer than I imagined because of doing multiple things to the same piece of fabric. Initially, I was washing the fabric after each step, resoaking it with soda ash, and…
Imagine my surprise when a friend told me that she had voted for me “in the quilt blog contest.” What? I had never heard of such a thing. But, lo and behold, she showed me this. Apparently my blog is a finalist in the “Best Art Quilt Blog” category. Well, that’s certainly nice! (Even though…
I spent all of last week learning about dye painting and other dying techniques.  Once I used fabric that was properly treated, my color wheel turned out as I expected. One of the things I was anxious to try was drawing a black line with a syringe. Here, I’ve done it on berry colored (fuchsia +…
After painting fabric and seeing how much it stiffened the fabric, I knew I wanted to learn about painting with dyes instead. In anticipation I got a good tutorial book and asked for dyes for my just-around-the-corner birthday. Living in Florida, I KNEW I wanted to dye inside, something that very few people do. I…
You readers are really great! When I posted my quilt at this stage several of you had good suggestions about how I might improve it. The most common suggestion was to add some orange back in. Something I had considered but rejected. Another tip was to break up the white and to extend the “splashing”…
I got this far on my current quilt, before I knew it needed something more. Clearly, the white needed some texture. So, I decided to fling some paint onto it! I practiced first on a piece of muslin, then I just went for it. Amazingly, I did this without any fear! I was READY to break…
Well, after painting those (challenging) fabrics I had to figure out what to do with them. Since I wasn’t crazy about some of them, I knew I’d need to cut isolated portions and motifs for use. I had NO IDEA what my composition might look like, but I started cutting out sections and MINDLESSLY sticking…
Once I had my fabrics painted, it was time to select the colors I would use with them. Orange was a given since it was in one of the fabrics. So what about blue-green with orange? Although this is one of my favorite color combinations I immediately thought “no.” I guess because I’ve used it…