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[Before bed] I had an incredibly productive day of creative stuff. I am so glad that the previous day's ill health did not linger. HUZZAH! What follows are notes on the fiber activities of the day:
Washed the rust dye pants and shirt. The pants look pretty good, patterend. The shirt is a little blotchy,
Pasted up the cardigan with flour paste -- video notes.
Finished painting the back of the t-shirt with the acrylic design.
Finished the MayDay tablecloth. HUZZAH. Lousy straight line hems, but practice. Getting back into sewing machine skills.
Began alterations of t-shirt. First practiced quite a while on scraps. Sewing machine wasn't shifting gears for zig-zag or shifting stitch patterns: eventually got it going. Button holes! Practiced. Then tested stitching edge of raw t-shirt fabric while stretched to make ruffled edging.
Did edging stitch on collar and sleeve hems of t-shirt. Note: don't cut generous neckline if doing that. 12 button holes: one failure.
Mixed green dye paint & experimented with elmer's school gel resist. Video notes on formula. This ran more than i would have liked. Later mixed up blue with essentially same formula but just a bit more of the alginate gel. This was thicker and while it also dispersed, it was much less dispersive. Painted shorts, painted lousy shibori, painted twisted pants. Then began mixing dyes without the alginate and with the soda water to try the tray dyeing method with an overnight soak: blue, green, and bluegreen. I did the sweater completely with squirt bottles and no manipulation. (I sure hope the red stain ended up in a high intensity dye location.)
Twisting the pants did not produce a pattern of interest: most of the pants were interior and didn't get patterned. The lousy shibori will be sort of interesting: hopefully the tray dyeing method will produce interesting patterns.
Ack! I can't recall if i dyed the ribbons for the altered t-shirt.
Washed the rust dye pants and shirt. The pants look pretty good, patterend. The shirt is a little blotchy,
Pasted up the cardigan with flour paste -- video notes.
Finished painting the back of the t-shirt with the acrylic design.
Finished the MayDay tablecloth. HUZZAH. Lousy straight line hems, but practice. Getting back into sewing machine skills.
Began alterations of t-shirt. First practiced quite a while on scraps. Sewing machine wasn't shifting gears for zig-zag or shifting stitch patterns: eventually got it going. Button holes! Practiced. Then tested stitching edge of raw t-shirt fabric while stretched to make ruffled edging.
Did edging stitch on collar and sleeve hems of t-shirt. Note: don't cut generous neckline if doing that. 12 button holes: one failure.
Mixed green dye paint & experimented with elmer's school gel resist. Video notes on formula. This ran more than i would have liked. Later mixed up blue with essentially same formula but just a bit more of the alginate gel. This was thicker and while it also dispersed, it was much less dispersive. Painted shorts, painted lousy shibori, painted twisted pants. Then began mixing dyes without the alginate and with the soda water to try the tray dyeing method with an overnight soak: blue, green, and bluegreen. I did the sweater completely with squirt bottles and no manipulation. (I sure hope the red stain ended up in a high intensity dye location.)
Twisting the pants did not produce a pattern of interest: most of the pants were interior and didn't get patterned. The lousy shibori will be sort of interesting: hopefully the tray dyeing method will produce interesting patterns.
Ack! I can't recall if i dyed the ribbons for the altered t-shirt.
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