If you’ve been following me for the past two years you know that I’ve been involved with a group of artists. Every month one of the members, “the queen,” would choose a topic and the other members would make a piece of fabric for her, and a 6 x 6 piece to be given away…
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Printed Fabric Bee: Found Object Marks
This past month’s The Printed Fabric Bee challenge topic was Found Object Marks. Leslie Jenison the Queen Bee, chose this topic, requesting neutrals with a pop of color on an 8 x 18 piece of fabric. Before I show you the collection that will be given away, here is my piece and my process. I started…
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Rust Dyeing
After seeing some lovely rust-colored fabric I finally tried my hand at rust dyeing. I used this old rusty chain that has been sitting outside the garage for a long time. Every time I have walked by it I thought about rust dyeing. So let’s get started. Here is what you need: fabric, dyeing container,…
Read MorePrinted Fabric Bee: Molas
This past month’s The Printed Fabric Bee challenge was Molas. Julie Basseches Booth, the Queen Bee, chose this topic requesting colors of red, black or other bright colors. Here is the collection of giveaway fabric. See information on the giveaway below. If you don’t know what molas are, they are the colorful appliqué patterns of…
Read MorePrinted Fabric Bee Giveaway #10
With this giveaway, we at the Printed Fabric Bee are completing our first year! I can’t believe it’s been a whole year. For me it has been a great experience to stretch myself – to force myself to use different colors and work with the monthly themes. As the months have passed I’ve seen my…
Read MorePrinted Fabric Bee Giveaway #9
Giveaway Closed – Bethany Garner of Canada was our winner It’s time for the Printed Fabric Bee Giveaway! I was so excited to be the Queen Bee this month. For my challenge I’ve asked for my piece to be 8 x 18 and it’s all about INSPIRATIONAL WORDS. For those of you who don’t know…
Read MoreSun Printing: Textile Paint & Screen Printing Ink
This is an article I posted on the Fire blog in June. I thought I’d repeat it here in case some of you did not see it and are interested in my experiments with sun printing. I’ve done quite a bit of sun printing and am partial to a couple products (Setacolor Transparent and Dye-na-flow).…
Read MoreSaturday snapshots from my studio
Happy Saturday! Just a quick post to give you a peak at some of the projects I’m working on right now. No beauty shots – just quick photos of my mess. And my helpers. Thanks for dropping by.
Read MoreA Parfait of Color
A couple years ago I blogged about iced dyed parfait and the results. It was such a fun experiment and you can see the results here. It’s a great way to use up old dyes and get surprise fabric designs. So this time I tried it without the ice and I really love the results.…
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