Fun

The Mobile, AL quilt show, called the Azalea City Quilt Show, is fast approaching and I've been busy dyeing fabric for our vendor booth and over-dyeing some pieces that were not selling. Here are some of the over-dyes...



Love these yummy colors.

Jane, my beginner quilt student, just finished her quilt top and is ready to spray baste it...



...and my husband and son have been making these fish in the garage out of military surplus items...

Creativity is a whole-house event lately.

Double Dye or Over Dye

Okay, I know that seeing the fruits of my fabric dyeing labors every other day gets old. On the other hand, if you like the photos, here are some I over-dyed yesterday...

Dyeing over another color gives a wonderful depth of color to the finished piece.

Over-dye Day

Today I have been over-dyeing some hand-dyed fabrics that I was not pleased with. I used to think that over-dye was a last resort to save fabric, but now I know that it's a wonderful way to add depth of color to fabric. The piece above was a flat turquoise and quite boring until I dyed it in indigo.

Some of the lighter pieces were over-dyed with Wedgewood. You can't see them in this photo, but each piece has an undertone of the original color.


It's also fun to rubber band resist these fabrics so that the original color is preserved. It can be mighty messy removing rubber bands from dye-soaked fabric, but the results are worth it...


This piece is still in the rinsing stage, but the color is just what I hoped for.

This is a great way to revive fabrics I would not otherwise have appreciated.