My last free week-end

One of my favourite blogs is by Melody Johnson. She has been blogging for years and is an incredibly interesting lady. Not to sound too stalker like, but I read her blog every day. She is like a friend I have never met. OK—that sounds very creepy…

Anyhoo—Melody has generously shared her technique on what she calls “Special Edition” fabric pieces. I adore these hand-dyes. As it is my last week-end before I go back to work on Monday, I decided to give this a whirl since I wont need my cutting table for awhile.

Here is my first try:

 

 

Yah, its OK. But I learned some things and then did the second piece:

Obviously its still wet, but I like the movement it made across the piece. Delish!

I laid out a 1 yard piece of damp cotton that had soaked in soda ash solution for about 20 minutes. I used blue, red, green, yellow and purple dye. Melody Johnson uses pour bottles from a hair supply store, but I had syringes' so that is what I used.

Then I just put the dye in strategic places, moved them around with my gloves and voila! Now Melody’s pieces are less wet, I don't know how she does them without getting them so ‘blended’, but I’ll keep trying this technique. Who knows what I’ll do with them  :-)

Today is sign up at our for quilting classes, and although I always get this way, I get nervous that no-one will take my classes. This semester I am doing a ‘Sunday challenge’ every month with fibre artists and one  landscape embroidery class.