Something About Nothing

I tied up some t-shirts to dye for my grandsons. Of course I forgot to take photos of the shirts once they were rinsed and washed. I do have a couple of photos of the boys in one of their shirts. They were a lot larger than I anticipated, but they enjoyed them just the same. I like both styles but was really surprised at how much I love the horizontal stripes.

 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 pi...

My friend Lynn Dell Swapp is a wonderful fiber artist. Back in the day, she sold tie dyed t-shirts and tapestries out of the back of her van along Highway 101 in Oregon. This past weekend Lynn Dell (center), Diane (left), Bev and I went up to our friend, Timmy's studio to learn a few of Lynn Dell's tricks. With Lynn Dell's help, Diane folded two large 100% cotton sheets. Here is the critter she ended up making with the first one. We thought it looked like a mutant turtle - it just wasn't very ninja. ;) Diane used a dish drainer turned upside down in a tray as a base while she added the dyes to her fabric. I took an awkward selfie to prove that I was really there. I only folded some smaller pieces of fabric. Deformed camel? Dog with an excessively large tail as well as a small tail? What do you see? This the folded chevron snake - the backside is about to get more dye. The next day we put all the creatures onto the ground and spr...

It's that time of year! Time for the annual Quilter's Holladay quilt guild dye party.   Always a lot of fun! Anne  (in yellow) always does a great job of teaching at our dye parties.  She had everyone's undivided attention. As I looked around I realized there were lots of familiar faces but we also have a lot of new members this year.  I love that we were able to share our passion with new people. Anne asked me to demonstrate ice dyeing again this year. I taught how to do regular ice dyeing and. . .  . . .parfait ice dyeing.   I really like using this glass containers for parfait demonstrations because everyone can see the pretty colors.  During Anne's presentation she recommended NOT using complimentary colors in the same ziplock bag because you get lots of browns.   So what did I do?   I used complimentary colors. I'm a rebel like that. I'm really not sure what I was saying in this next photo when m...