Dye Date

 My friend, Sylvia, drove up from her home in southern Utah for her granddaughter's birthday. Since she was in town, and we are both fully vaccinated, we decided to have a dye party together. It's been at least 2 years since we've seen each other in person! I think we spent more time talking than dyeing, but that's okay, it was time well spent.


I taught Sylvia how to create resists by pinching the fabric, and adding rubber bands.
We used small hair rubber bands to create a resist. This is similar to Kanoko Shibori.
A one yard piece tied up with rubber bands before dyeing.
Sylvia swirled and tied up her one yard piece.


We did a little parfait dyeing too. Only appropriate that we do it in ice cream containers!

All of our tied, twisted and clamped pieces after adding dye.

Sylvia took her pieces home in a bucket, and we both ended up letting them stew in their juices for 48 hours before rinsing, washing and drying. Here are my completed pieces:
Tiny hair rubber bands on pinched fabric created these very traditional designs.

This star pattern is creating by folding and clamping with popcicle sticks and rubber bands.

One of my favorite patterns created with fan folding and rubber bands.

The three pieces to the left were created in the parfait dyeing, and the other two were squished in a zip lock baggie.

This is the one yard piece after it was dyed.
Jump over to Sylvia's blog at Bunchberry Studio to see her washed and dried pieces, as well as a few additional photos of me mixing dyes.

Comments

Sylvia said…
I had so much fun! We need to do this more often!

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