This is the last installment showing the work I did in Jan's class.
If you look at 1-8 you can see how much I accomplished in this one week class.
We actually only dyed fabric for 4 days as the last day was set aside for design work.
If you think I created a lot of pieces, I want you to know I was one of the slower students in the class and many created a lot more than I did.
So without further ado - here are the last 5 pieces.
If you think a lot of these look very similar it is because I was trying to create a coordinated group of fabrics with the pieces in My Work 5-8. They definitely have a coordinated look. But, they ended up too busy to use together with nothing else added for a place to rest your eyes.
Since my design was already in my head and waiting for my fabrics to be washed out, I used the time that last day to roll 7 more pieces to dye when I was at home. I did complete them this week and you will see them in due time.
Once I started dying fabric it got me in the mood to do more so I have been rolling more fabric and when all my poles are used I will do another batch of dyeing - on a day when it is warmer than today!
I've fit this rolling of the poles between my quilting and knitting. (Of course occasionally I also clean, straighten the house, do paper work, cook, socialize, shop and spend a little time on the computer - not necessarily in that order!).
5 comments:
Kay, these pieces are lovely. Did you dye the base color first and then do the pole wrapping?
I love that background color - makes them so much more interesting than just the pole wrapped pattern.
Ann
I sorta did the base first!
Not a comlete answer I know.
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Beautiful Kay! :)
a nice palette; have you tried over-dyeing commercial fabric? A purist would dye the base color first and then do the wrapping but maybe using a solid as a starting point might be rather interesting.
When I look at your fabrics, I think of sherbet
Sylvia in cloudy Beaumont
When you do these, do you paint with a thickened dye (Procion with sodium alginate to thicken) or do you just paint with the dyes at a regular "waterey" dye concentrate consistency? Thanks.
Johanna in WI
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