Current Creative Endeavors

By: Lynda
art, body care products, collage, crafts, fabric, fiber reactive dyes, stencils, watercolors, wax pastels, , , , , , , , , , 3 Comments on Current Creative Endeavors

Believe it or not, it’s not all marbling around here! I’ve been taking a couple of classes – a bit out of my comfort zone. One is an online class, Story Threads, with Cat Caracelo. This is my first collage for this class.  The cat is my Sidd who came to me in the guided…

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Mixing Fiber Reactive Dyes

By: Lynda
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Even though I’ve been using fiber reactive dyes now for about two years, I’ve never mixed “pure” dyes to make specific colors. I always just bought the premixed colors. After taking Jane Dunnewold’s Craftsy class, The Art of Cloth Dyeing, I thought I’d try to mix some with her formulas. On this day I dyed…

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Craftsy Class Review: The Art of Cloth Dyeing

By: Lynda
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I’ve been dyeing fabric now for almost two years. Just before that time I received Jane Dunnewold’s Art Cloth to review. With review books I can choose to give them away or keep them. I gave Art Cloth away on this blog because I thought I’d never really get into dyeing. I was wrong! So…

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