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Wow!!

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

As of 10:30 tonight, 95 people have left a comment, hoping to win Jane’s book. It was so much fun reading all of your comments today. On Friday, I will use a random number generator to announce the winner. So if you are just reading my blog today, you still have time to leave a comment on yesterday’s blog for a chance to win Jane Dunnewold’s new book, Art Cloth.

I was so tired after dinner tonight that I thought I could not possibly do a fiber sketch. I printed out my leaf templates on freezer paper and played some solitaire on the computer. I went into the studio to iron the freezer paper to the painted lutradur and I suddenly wanted to use some of the lutradur for a sketch. I titled it summer. By the way, I cut out some leaves and the lutradur is going to be perfect.

This morning, I washed out the dyeing that I did yesterday. Got some great results with the t-shirts. The fabric was less than spectacular.

I used a cool black dye for this shirt – you can see the blues that have shown up.

For several of the shirts, I used chocolate brown and teal — I really like this combo.

Here is another version of the teal and brown for Mia.

This is some cheese cloth that got dunked in the black dye. I like this.

This is another piece done with teal and chocolate brown. I think this will bee really cool for discharging.

I love this wacky piece. I hung the fabric on the clothes line and poured various leftover dyes on to the fabric ala Robbi Eklow. I love a piece of fabric like this that can be cut up and used in compositions. There are many fabulous elements to this.

Joining  me in the studio was my faithful assistant, Scooter. He remains calm, cool and collected through it all.

Dyeing, Painting and a Chance to Win Jane’s New Book

Monday, July 26th, 2010

I have had a busy day and am feeling great. I made a trip to Target this morning to buy more t-shirts. I had some left over dye and decided to dye some shirts for my M and M and Mr C hinted that he would like one, too.

I scoured the shirts and got everything dyed by early afternoon. I had enough dye left to use up on some fabric. I had mixed up some chocolate brown, teal blue and black in addition to the red, blue an yellow that was left from Saturday.

I bought some light weight lutradur at Fabric Depot on Saturday which I think will make nice leaves for my latest aspen piece. I painted it with Jacquard Dyna-Flow this afternoon. I love the colors. I will make leaf patterns with freezer paper and spend tomorrow night cutting and cutting.

Tonight, I am feeling rather tired and achy from all the standing and walking the dog so I decided to start working on Allegro, by next organza pocket piece. Since I need to make the background quilt before I attach the pockets, I have to know the exact measurements. For the 12 by 12 piece, that was easy. Here is my start. I think it might be easier to work it out on graph paper.

The darker pockets will fill in around the white pieces. I am trying to decide if I need to paint more of the white pieces.

Now, I have an extra copy of Jane Dunnewold’s new book, Art Cloth. It is a fabulous how to book from the queen of surface design. Leave a comment and I will do a random drawing on Friday.

That Was Fun!!

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

I had fun washing out the tie-dyed shirts. Considering how many I dyed while under the influence of drugs, I think they turned out really well. I hope the kids like them.

I bought six white cotton sun hats for myself. I do not go out in the sun without a hat. Now, I have a colorful array to choose from.

The onesies are so cute. I have 3 mos, 6 mos and 9-12 mos. I will be giving some of these to my friends who are expecting new grandchildren this year.

This one is for the newest addition to our family, Gwen. Her big sister loves pink and purple so I made this for her new sister.

I always wondered how to do that spiral thing. So glad I could google it. It really is easy.

And, finally, I made this one for myself!!

I am feeling much better today. Headache is almost gone.


Recovering and Tie-Dyeing.

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

This a bag of plastic wrapped t-shirts and onesies that have been folded, scrunched, twirled and tie-dyed. Here is the other batch:

Not very pretty pictures, but I wanted to show you what I have been doing today. That nice red plastic container and one of my bags must have sprung a leak:

Not to worry, it is all cleaned up.

I am tie-dyeing stuff for all my great nieces and nephews. I wanted something special to give them when I go home for the reunion. For the youngest girls, I used hot pink, purple and turquoise. For the other shirts, I used mixing blue, mixing red and lemon yellow. I will post photos of the end product tomorrow. Even though it is quite warm here, I am pretty tired and so I will let them batch overnight.

I saw the Dr. yesterday and we decided I had a full blown sinus infection and so I am on the Z pack (Azithromycin). I felt quite a bit better this morning, but still had a nagging sinus head-ache. I forged ahead with my day and I am feeling much better tonight.

I received notification of another quilt accepted into a show today. High Desert Aspens was accepted into the Oregon SAQA show, our first ever. 32 of 50 quilts were accepted. I didn’t really think my other two quilt would make it.


Dyeing Day 3

Monday, April 26th, 2010

The silk black dye worked its magic. These two scarves were underpainted with the dye soup. The scarf of the left was clipped with some bag closers that look like barrettes. The larger scarf was pole wrapped. I just love these two. Click on any of the photos to see it enlarged.

These were underpainted with a turquoise to green gradation. The smaller scarf was accordion folded and held with rubber bands.

This was the yellowish orange shibori scarf from yesterday. I overdyed it with rust and then pole wrapped and it went into the black dye. Silk has fewer dye receptive molecules so by the time this got into the black dye, it was just about done in. Still has a subtle beauty.

These were dyed with the chartreuse dye first. The piece on the right was folded and held with rubber bands.

These were underpainted fuchsia to cobalt blue. The scarf on the left was tie dyed with rubber bands.The tied circles are all different colors – very cool.

I am really happy with these. I had a problem with the wrapping coming off the poles so some of these have one end that does not have as much of a pronounced shibori pattern, but it all works.