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Technique:Dyeing

I’m Over It

25 November 2006 Filed Under: Technique:Dyeing

I declare my brief but intense infatuation with shibori resist dyeing is over. I spent several hours this week carefully stitching two larch pieces (see Erica’s blog for some directions) and left them batching in dye while I travelled to the city today for a guild committee strategy meeting. Upon my return, I was eager […]

The Morning After Dyeing Day

17 November 2006 Filed Under: Technique:Dyeing

While we didn’t dye great meterage, Erica and I had such fun mucking around with the colours. We bypassed the primaries and concentrated on saturated secondaries. Here are some of my oranges, greens and purples (and a black, another “bright” for good measure): For some reason, we both did a lot of orange: And, of […]

Play Day

16 November 2006 Filed Under: Technique:Dyeing

Today Erica is coming to my house to play. We have “booked” the wet area in David’s workshop and plan on doing some shibori and other dyeing – who knows what havoc we can wreak. Here is the “before” shot: And here are my pristine shibori-style pieces:

By way of background

6 February 2006 Filed Under: Technique:Dyeing

Armed with Melody Johnson’s guide for The Lazy Dyer , I spent a wonderful day playing with dyes and fabrics in my garden yesterday and here are some of the results: I’ll spare you any photos of my shoulders which I sunburnt to a particularly vibrant shade of pink. Ouch! I also took the opportunity […]

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