Pictures of Dyeing Attempts!
Monday, October 23rd, 2006
Pictures of my dyeing . Pictures of failed attempts at patchwork. Pictures of what looks like it will work.
Tips & Techniques (Dyeing)
Dyeing to get to quilt
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006I’ve been drawing, I’ve been gathering patches, I’ve been clearing a table, I’ve moved the sewing machine, I’m set, hep and ready to go on my newest quilt. So what am I really doing? I’m dyeing a jacket.
My daughter has a wonderful black jacket with red embroidery she’s worn for 2 years straight. So now the black is more a charcoal grey and not so good looking. I thought that re-dying the entire jacket in black would be a bad idea since the embroidery would be lost. But re-dyeing it red would deepen the grey to , well something closer to black while revitalizing the embroidery.
I’m boiling the jacket on the stove. My kitchen looks like something out of a haunted house, red liquid and unidetifyable black stuff in the pot, red drips everywhere….
What we don’t do for our kiddies.
On a different note, I’ve been researching quilting on the web looking for ideas for the stash and found a set of really interesting articles and pictures on Dutch patchwork. There was a brief explosion of Dutch women making “Celebration” or Festival skirts out of old fabrics saved from before the war. There were instructions on how to make these and a registry for them. I’m attaching thel inks since they tell the story better than I ever could. Neat stuff.
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