Congrats to Laura (the 8th comment) who wins the Discover Shibori ebook! Thanks to everyone who stopped by and entered. Today’s blog is a review of Debbie Maddy’s new book, Discover Shibori: Creative Techniques in Natural Indigo Dyeing. C&T Publishing Company contacted me about participating in a blog hop. Of course, I jumped at the…
Read MoreI saw a piece of ice dyed fabric recently that just made my heart do flips. Well, not really, but I absolutely loved it. After studying it multiple times I decided I’d try to duplicate it. This whole process reminds me of my mom. She was a great seamstress. We’d go shopping for prom dresses…
Read MoreWhile cleaning up my studio yesterday I found these pieces that I forgot to blog about! For this dyeing experiment, I wanted to use a couple different kinds of resist objects. Here is a light switch cover. This is my favorite piece. However it and the whole set of fabrics were much lighter than I…
Read MoreI don’t know about you, but I love indigo. However, I wanted to spice up some of my previously-dyed indigo pieces with some overdyeing. I tore each piece and just dyed half of it so I could see the difference. Then I folded, clamped, and scrunched the fabric. Here are my results of each dyed…
Read MoreI’ve really enjoyed trying some new (to me) techniques with my dyeing. Itajime, a shibori technique, involves folding fabric and then sandwiching it between two pieces of wood or other material and holding the shapes with clamps. I bought these plexiglass pieces for this technique. You can get your own set from this Rossie’s etsy…
Read MoreIt was so much fun to get out and sun print this past weekend. I’ve done a lot of sun printing with botanicals, but this time I wanted to try a shibori technique. My friend, Lisa Chin, demonstrated this on her webinar, Creating Prayer Flags with Sun Shibori and Stencils. It’s on sale right now!…
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