Happy New Year 2011

Happy New Year!!!

Hello Quilting land! I am still here and still gestating! I guess with three small kids and waiting to birth another really takes it all out of you! I even have the BEST supporting husband! I am so tired these final months that I have NOT Sewn and I am so bummed. But we also are in a temporary location and not in our home so things are not 'set up' to sew and there really is no room to do it. So I had to submit to that and move on. Sure I am bummed but I know God has made it an obvious priority to take care of myself and my hubby and kids. Sewing will always be there.

I will say I did get to a JoAnn's and take a crochet class! It was great and I am not the best at it but I am enjoying some kind of craft/hand work! Yeah!

So, since I don't have a show and tell or anything, I will post this GIVEAWAY by "We Love Quilting"... so get on over to: http://welovequilting.com/january-give-a-way-2/ and WIN!!!!

*hugs*
Jackie

More fabric dyeing

Fabric dyeing is rapidly becoming a fascination of mine. Here are some photos of the results.

In this photo the fabric is waiting in front of the washing machine to be washed.

This is a photo of my second attempt - the colours are much better than the first attempt.

The next exercise I had to attempt was to dye pieces of fabric using 2 complementary colours ie Red and Green, Blue and Orange, and Yellow and Purple. I also learnt that the stronger the Soda Ash solution, the brighter the colours. These dyed fabrics are much brighter than the first 2 attempts at dyeing single colours.

This is a photo of the Red and Green fabric. I am battling to mix the dye to make a green other than olive green. It is getting a bit frustrating......

This purple and yellow fabric is quite bright - I wonder where I can use this fabric.....


This orange and blue fabric is also quite bright. You can see the neutral colours appearing where the 2 colours have mixed.

In this last photo I used up all the left over dye..... These fabrics are almost too pretty to use.

My kids and I also dyed some t-shirts. They are still being washed and photographed. My son David has helped a lot with the rinsing out and ironing of the fabric.