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Other: First Try
kudoz

First Try

All eleven pieces

Copper headpins between layers
Cover plate with a circular hole
And the winner is...!
All eleven pieces
Tied & poured, orange clothespins
Plastic drain strainers

Learn It

This project was made as part of a Craftsy course:
The Art of Cloth Dyeing »

Instructions

I did a fair amount of planning before mixing any dye, and I kept track of my manipulations as well as my dye colors for each of the eleven pieces (in a notebook). For me, that will be helpful to understand what works, what colors I actually get from different mixtures, what kinds of objects are more or less effective as resists, etc. That said, I wasn't trying for anything in particular, just ...
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Difficulty:

Category: Other

Type of item: Functional

For: Other

Style: Whimsical, Funky


Materials

PFD cotton broadcloth

What was your inspiration?

Jane Dunnewold!

What are you most proud of?

They all work on some level, even if they are nothing like I imagined they'd turn out.

What advice would you give someone starting this project?

Keep track of your manipulations and dyes and resists, just in case you get something incredible and want to do another.

 

5 comments

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Jim Vander Noot on craftsy.com
Jan 06, 2013    Flag as inappropriate
Very, very nice! Love the blue flag fold with the grid. It has so much dimension!
mckennalinn on craftsy.com
Jan 06, 2013   Flag as inappropriate
That's my favorite, and wasn't a flag fold, rather was a square fold, but I folded in triangular as well as square pieces of the garden grid. That's what created the triangular ghosting. I'm definitely going to do more with that resist material!
Maryann on craftsy.com
Jan 05, 2013    Flag as inappropriate
Beautiful work! Congratulations!
Sherri Rene on craftsy.com
Jan 04, 2013    Flag as inappropriate
great i have wanting to do this -- i have done some fabric dying but I will take this class in the future
mckennalinn on craftsy.com
Jan 04, 2013   Flag as inappropriate
I highly recommend it. I've had fabric-dyeing on my to-do list for twenty years, and this was just what I was waiting for!