I finished the last exercise in Module 2 of the C&G course this weekend. It was further exploring transparency with transfer printing. I ordered the transfer dyes right at the start of the module. I only managed to get the polycotton fabric after Christmas. It had to have a minimum of 65% polyester content [...]
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Well as promised here are some of the results of my printing at the weekend. First 2 pages from my sketchbook with acrylic paint printing. These are the results after I worked out the correct amount of paint to use. And then the results with dye paste printed on fabric. The leaves [...] I’ve started the second module of my C&G course now. Last weekend I was taking pictures of lines. It’s amazing how many lines there are around about when you start looking for them. I took all my photos in the house and in the garden. No need to go further afield. This weekend I’ve [...] I’ve been a bit quiet on the blogging front. Last weekend I exhausted myself with a marathon dyeing session. The reason for the dyeing was two activities for my C&G course. I had to dye a 6 section colour wheel. You were allowed to skip the activity if you had taken Level 2, where [...] I was signed up for a second shibori class at QU, which was scheduled to start this coming weekend. Unfortunately it got cancelled. So I treated myself to a book on the subject instead. It arrived on Monday. I was only able to really start looking at it in any detail last night, as [...] This week there has been more progress on my blue and green quilt. I have sewn all the blocks together to make the quilt top. And I have also dyed some fabric for the backing. I tried out one of the methods in the book “Color by Accident” by Ann Johnston. It is a [...] About 2 weeks I took delivery of three books by Ann Johnston, two about dyeing and one about quilt design. I have already browsed extensively through the two dyeing books and am sure that I shall have lots of fun trying out the things suggested in them. I like the fact that the books [...] We went to IKEA this morning to buy a cushion inside to put in my Ulu Fruit block that is destined to become a cushion cover. (BTW the quilting is all finished now and the block is washed to remove the chalk marks.) And this is what we returned with: 2 bolts of [...] yellow/ochre gradation green gradation yellow and green scrunching I’ve been doing some gradation dyeing today. This is still part of the class Quilter’s Palette, that I’m taking at QU, but I changed one of the recipes. The yellow/ochre gradtion was one of the recipes supplied for a 4 tone gradation. I made up my own green shade to do the [...] |
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