My Hand Dyed fabrics part two

There were two more techniques left that I didn't get to show you yesterday.  The first one, I failed at miserably!  It was supposed to be wound up a bit like a cinnamon roll.  I just couldn't seem to manage that.  The fabric turned out....let's say, interesting.  The pink and yellow was the second one I did in this manner.  It turned out a little like it was supposed to.  The other one, not so much.

My favorite technique was folded in squares.  I had finally gotten the hang of being sparse with the dye sometimes!  The red, white and blue was the last one dyed this way.  So happy to see the white didn't get swallowed up by the other dyes! 

 

That's all for today!

My Hand Dyed Fabric

I recently took a class from Carol Morrissey on dying fabric.  It was a simple introduction to the art without all the chemicals, mixing and breathing apparatus.  The dyes were already mixed and in bottles.  The class was held at Quilt Country and was loads of fun!  I'm going to be sharing my dyed fabric here with you today.  I wasn't great at the techniques Carol attempted to teach me, so my fabrics don't all have the look I was going for, but I'm happy with it all regardless. 

The first three photos show an accordion folding technique.  That was easy, but I tended to be heavy handed with the dyes on each technique. 

The next two were scrunched up and wound around a PVC pipe and held with rubber bands.  My heavy handed dying messed up the look.  If I remember correctly, we started these two with blue fabric.  All the rest were dyed on white. 

As usual, I'm having problems with Blogger.  I'm going to end this post here and write another one for tomorrow.