The nice weather has allowed some outside discharge work. I pulled some existing fabrics out of the van to work with; I think they have been improved. All three pieces utilized screens made with house paint.First is a piece of muslin that was dyed with turquoise, fuchsia and I think, navy, then stenciled with fabric …
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This is a piece of Testfabrics black broadcloth that I discharged with Thiox and over-dyed with MX. It was folded in half and wrapped around a pipe, then bound with thread. I’d love to do this again with a really sheer fabric.
Here are a few more discharged fabrics that I have produced lately. I think they look different than the other ones I’ve posted recently. The first one is a 44” square of broadcloth dyed a fairly dark blue-green. It was then accordion-folded in two directions and clamped between 4 CDs. Then it was discharged in …
Well, spent a lot of time yesterday doing discharge. That’s in the washer right now, but I wanted to post a picture of this fabric. It turned out really neat, and I’d like to do more with it. I could make a whole-cloth wall hanging out of it and it would be just cloth and …
These fabrics came out a lot nicer than the Kona. Part of that is because the fabric is thinner, and part is because I like the more organic nature of the patterning on at least two of them. The third, while more geometric, is a whole-cloth piece that hangs together well, IMHO. All three were …
Have gotten some more discharge done. Here are some pictures of some ho-hum items, compared with some of the others at least. Each of these were done on Robert Kaufman’s Kona cotton, purchased black. (Click on the link at right to shop DippyDyes.) Follow-up: a couple people have had questions: these were all dyed in …
Finally! I have scheduled classes in dyeing, discharge and appliqué and posted them on my website. Appliqué is a monthly evening class held on the second Monday of the month. Well, this isn’t the usual picture of a quilt in progress, but I couldn’t resist. The quilt is done now, and the dog is gone, …
Last weekend was my first big show as a vendor. I thought I’d post a picture of the booth taken before the show opened, and some pictures of discharged pieces that sold. This is the booth, complete with the ‘Casbah’ look. The floor is actually the ballroom carpet, but it adds to the look, I …
If you’ve visited before, you might notice a new look. I also added labels to everything, and was a bit surprised to note that the category ‘Discharge’ had the most entries, by 10 to 4. And I enjoyed looking back at my earlier work. It’s supposed to be in the 50s tomorrow, Thursday, so I’m …
Hi – not lots of time, just wanted to post this picture. It’s black radiance fabric with some shibori binding & capping, discharged in Thiox and overdyed. The cotton side is on the left, silk is on the right. Thanks to Carol Soderlund for getting me to this point!
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