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Quilting: gradation - yellow to turquoise
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gradation - yellow to turquoise

1st gradation

light 'tints' rainbow
1st gradation

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This project was made as part of a Craftsy course:
Color Play for Quilters »

Instructions

Also did JaneDunnewold's course on fabricdyeing.I followed the idea of course making gradations, but with dye you can't tell what you have till its dry.Never-the-less I did do some extras to my orriginal list to get chartruse.
Difficulty:

Category: Quilting

Type of item: Toy

For: Other

Style: Traditional

Materials

cotton homespun - bbasic quilting cotton

What was your inspiration?

Rather my motivation - I have wizzed through two courses - And now I am going through each exercise as I find the time.

What are you most proud of?

That I did it.

What advice would you give someone starting this project?

Have persistance! I think it would be easier useing paints as suggested. however after learning how to dye small samples I will continue to get a full colour wheel in tints, shades and gradations of complementaries.

 

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Thread Head
Dec 14, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
How inspiring! I have taken both courses and have had fun experimenting with colours, but I think I will have to give this a try. Thanks!
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everlastindaisy
Oct 26, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
Thankyou for your interest Seri and Susan. Sorry I misspelled your name Emmely.
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Seri
Oct 26, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
lovely gradation!
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susany128589436
Oct 26, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
beautiful gradations
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everlastindaisy
Oct 25, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
HelloEmmerly, I do just play with the dyes as well but wanted to know or understand them too. To make small samples I had to work out all the quantities more carefully because I am in Australia where we use metric as well we get American cups and teaspoons along with English cups and teaspoons. So I have worked out metric strengths and ratios to get these grades of colour on small samples. Once that is all done it is easy and clean dying them all in plastic bags or small containers.If you want all these measurements and ratios I will write them up for you. I am going (in time) to do it for each primary. Don't forget to play as well. I think this is where I rely as it disapeared from thr lower box. regards Rosalie
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everlastindaisy
Oct 25, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
HelloEmmerly, I do just play with the dyes as well but wanted to know or understand them too. To make small samples I had to work out all the quantities more carefully because I am in Australia where we use metric as well we get American cups and teaspoons along with English cups and teaspoons. So I have worked out metric strengths and ratios to get these grades of colour on small samples. Once that is all done it is easy and clean dying them all in plastic bags or small containers.If you want all these measurements and ratios I will write them up for you. I am going (in time) to do it for each primary. Don't forget to play as well. I think this is where I rely as it disapeared from thr lower box. regards Rosalie
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Emmely
Oct 25, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
I love the idea of dyeing my own fabric like this, I am also enrolled in Jane Dunnewolds class but I haven't done much dyeing yet. How did you do this? Did you start with a large batch of yellow dye and did you add gradually more blue dye as you went along, taking out some of the dye to dye your fabrics in between each step? Or did you do something else?

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