If you joined my recent virtual tour of my studio, you may have noticed a scrunched up bundle of orange fabric sitting on my ironing board. It was a stitched resist shibori work in progress. Here are some before and after photos: I started this piece for the Twelve by Twelve 2012 Map Challenge after […]
Technique:Dyeing
Putting my feet up
THANK YOU! to everyone who stopped by my guest artist stand at the Craft & Sewing Shows in Sydney, Auckland and Brisbane and/or attended my Beneath the Southern Sky curator floor talks at the same events. Your enthusiasm and interest has made the whole experience a lot of fun for me and I hope you […]
Day 3 @ Brisbane Craft & Sewing Show
The rainbow is complete: Now it’s time to use up the ret of the dye solutions with Serendipity Shibori As is often the way, the throwaway pieces done without much thought turn out to be favourites!
Day 2 @ Brisbane Craft & Sewing Show
Day 2 brought lots of interest about image transfer with Orange Power; part 2 of the colour wheel; a little shibori and lots of fun with textile paints. Thanks to Lisa and Peter Walton of Dyed & Gone to Heaven for this snap of me in action.
A touch of colour
There’s been a lot of rain around Brisbane and the Gold Coast this week but my Serendipity Studio at the Brisbane Craft & Sewing Show has plenty of colour. On Day 1 we dyed the first part of the colour wheel. Today I’ll be dyeing yellow through to blue ans all those luscious greens in […]
Serendipity Shibori in Auckland
For all the visitors to my Guest Artist studio at the Auckland Craft & Sewing Show last week, here are some of the final results of the shibori dyeing: Textile paints and procion fibre reactive dyes are available from New Zealand online supplier www.zigzag.co.nz and free tutorials can be found under the FREE STUFF tab […]