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Soy Wax Revisited

By: Lynda November 8, 2021November 8, 2021

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I’ve not written a tutorial for soy wax batik for years, so I thought it was time for an update. So let’s get started.

Soy Wax Batik and Fashion Spray

By: Lynda February 10, 2019October 27, 2021

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Today I wanted to show your my results with soy wax and Marabu Fashion Spray. In the past I’ve used Jacquard Dye-Na-Flow and fiber reactive dyes with this technique (and they work great!), but I wanted to see how well these sprays would hold up. If you’d like to see how I used these sprays…

Printed Fabric Bee: Ice Dyeing With Soy Wax

By: Lynda April 11, 2016October 27, 2021

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This is the second in my series this month on using resists with ice dyeing. This is also posted on The Printed Fabric Bee blog. As I mentioned in the first post, I’ve been ice dyeing since 2011 and have really loved the surprises from this fun dyeing technique. But as I’ve grown as an…

Best of 2015 Tutorials

As we end another year, I am again looking back on my favorite tutorials, or what I consider my best of 2015. I hope you liked them. If you missed them, here are the links. I started the year with a soy wax batik tutorial on my Back-to-Basics video series. LINK Dyeing with ties was…

Dyeing Soy Waxed Fabric

By: Lynda July 10, 2015July 10, 2015

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I decided to do a little experiment the other day. First I wanted to show you how I made those circles with a tin I found in a $1 bin at Target. I just had to add this after I received a comment from Jaime. We rarely eat anything or buy anything from a can…

Back To Basics: Soy Wax Batik

By: Lynda January 27, 2015December 11, 2021

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UPDATE: Check out this new soy wax tutorial from 2021. This year I’m started a new series of monthly “Back to Basics” posts which will include introductory information on different surface design techniques. I love to teach both through my blog and “live”, and thought these might be helpful for those of you out there…

Soy Wax Play Time

Last Saturday I spent the day at Making Ends Meet in Shelbyville, Kentucky where Darci McKinnon taught us about soy wax batik. I took a picture of my friend Marilyn’s skillet because of her cool tools. The large spiral one I used on several of my pieces. Leslie is the owner of Making Ends…