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The Haul

Today I had an unexpected day of dyeing. EJP and I were supposed to go to a friends house to have a Fiber Revolution meet up. Things happened, alarm clocks didn't go off in time, EJP was very late. We ended up staying here and dyeing. In the dungeon.

The top three pieces were parfait dyed. I think I need to overdye the left most piece, it bores me. The right most orange piece make my mouth water! Yum!!!
The heavy black animal spot type design I did last year but washed and dried today. I am going to welcome it into my stash tonight, introduce it to it's mates-in-organized-boxes!
The lettered print is a bleach discharge, overdye that I completed today. I discharged it about two weeks ago, the lettered stamps are my own.
In my own defense, I have to say that the colors in all of these pieces are much richer in person.
Overall a very productive day, made all the merrier by happenstance and friendship.

More and More!

I did this little ditty last weekend. I am really enjoying working in my dungeon. It works out well that I make my fabrics in the summer months as the basement is super cool right now. This piece is stenciled with a store bought stencil and the overall color was monoprinted in several layers to get that coloring.

Lots of folk asked me to further explain the technique I used to do the piece in the last entry. That piece is COTTON, screenprinted through an interfacing stencil. I don't want to describe the technique in detail because I think you should support Jane by buying her book! She is an incredible person and artist and deserves every last cent of recogition, as do we all, as artists in this crazy world!
I can say that I used thickened Procion MX dye to print with.

To follow up on some other topics I love to talk about...

After our last baby hatched and flew the coop, we cleaned the birdhouse out. Someone has moved back in and has seemingly had more babies! We get to watch the process all over again! YEAH!!!

This weekend we will be hanging with my fab (art) friend Day and her man. We will be going to the Kingston Biennial.
I just had to buy a cute little outfit for this event! 30 bucks at J. Jill, if you must know.

I bought it in a pale teal blue that they do not show on thier website. It is bias cut, with groovy seam lines and a raw edge hem at the bottom. Love the hem! Being a cloth person the finish is FABU!
Hey! If people who love food are foodies, then people who love cloth should be clothies, no? hmm.

Speaking of food, Frozen Bananas! The popsicle of choice right now!

I will also be hanging with my mom, going to the Guilford Handcraft Fair. That is the best link I could find, the Handcraft Center's web site is down. We have gone every year for prolly 30 years! Some years I was just old enough to be a pain in my mom's butt!

Bumble Star!

This is one of my favorite techniques learned at the Jane Dunnewold workshop, it is called Interface Stenciling.

This is wet and so is not a good example of what the colors will look like when it is batched, washed and dried but I couldn't wait. I had to post. Here is a close up:

I love what this technique does with color. The layers stack up and play nice with one another. Yum. Yum. Yum.

I will be playing with this technique. I would like to see what I can to outside of the square shape of the print itself. Squares on top of squares are nice up to a point.

Enter My Laboratory...

Velcome.... MWa-hahahahaaaaa! These are the deep dark depths of my madness.
This weekend was a low-key one by design. I worked in my dye stuo (A.K.A the basement). I have begun to explore the processes learned in Jane Dunnewold's class.

This one is just stamped, no screenprinting here. The color is a bit saturated in this photo- it is lighter in reality. I good and gentle start. I like it alot.

This is a screen printed one that I would like to push further. I like it though I would like to ground it a bit.

I hated this when I made it. It is starting to grow on me though. None feel finished yet, maybe that is this issue, but I made headway. One of the things I am enjoying about working in cloth right now is that I have begun to work on one yard pieces, sometimes larger. I had been working on fat quarters and I find working larger to be freeing and expansive.
I am focusing on making cohesive design motifs. That menas if I have handmade stamps with leaf motifs, I am trying to make screens with complimentary motifs to expand and play with the ideas I have already explored.