Nos. 35 and 37 -- Decolourant

While cleaning up a mess of fabric, I found some pieces that I had dyed years ago - pieces just waiting for a bit of discharge. I used Decolourant gel on four pieces of dyed fabric. Only two were somewhat successful.

I used a bamboo stencil on the bottom and several texture 'stencils' on the top.

This has some promise for a small quilt.

This fabric began with a red and dark green surface. The Decolourant removed quite a bit of color, taking it down to the soft green shown here.




Hope you have had a lovely Thanksgiving and starting a relaxing weekend.

Thanks for stopping, Karen

Nos. 33 and 34: A Bit of Tie Dye

Well, sorta tie dye, sorta a bit of shibori. So, two 'ish' pieces. I began by folding and tying with rubber bands. 

No. 33 was done in the traditional way using slightly damp fabric in a plastic bag and pouring the dye mixture onto the fabric, then adding fixative later. I like the definite pattern here.

No. 34 was done as an ice dye with the fabric soaking in soda ash mixture before folding. I used Pro Chem's mixing red. I really like the texture of this piece. Curious how differently they turned out.

My next exercise is to use Decolourant to discharge some color from two pieces that I dyed some time ago, but do not like them. Thanks for visiting. Karen

Number 32

Sample Number 32 uses a technique I read about on And Then We Set It on Fire blog using cups, lids, etc. to create a bit more texture. I started with soda ash soaked fabric. I used some corks, a couple bottle lids and a couple small plastic containers and wrapped the wet fabric around each using rubber bands to hold the fabric over the objects. The fabric was placed in my dyeing colander and covered with ice. I sprinkled small bits of Dharma's #29 bright green and #22 cobalt blue dye on the ice, covered it with plastic wrap and waited til the ice melted. After rinsing and washing, this is what I found.

This photo shows an area that had been wrapped around a cork.

 Just having fun here in Westminster. Thanks for reading.

Karen

Number 31

I think I can change my goal for this project "70 and Counting" as I am almost halfway toward 70 pieces. This ice dye was done with creamsicle and mocha dyes from Dharma using the colander arrangment. The mocha could be too old - it wimped out here actually becoming grey in some places.

If you are interested in snow and ice dyeing techniques, check out the blog And Then We Set it On Fire at http:andthenwesetitonfire.blogspot.com.  Ice and snow dyeing are the focus this month.

Thanks for checking in. Karen

So much to learn

As I am having fun. Below are the prints from my second venture with deconstructed screen printing. I like all the prints and am learning lots. In some of these, I think I 'squeegeed' too many times. I added some yellow dye for the 8th and 9th print, just to see how that would work. Nice enough. I added some red for the final print - it came out with tiny little spots because the red dye powder did not dissolve completely. I certainly want to do more of this technique -- hopefully next week. I love how the prints change. I haven't even begun to think how I will use these. Right now, I  want to play more.

Thanks for visiting.