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Yesterday was the second day of
Ann Johnston's two day workshop and these are some of my favorites from that class. As I said in my last post, I was trying to get more than one color on a piece and that's what I concentrated on today.
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I think that this looks like a land mass with water to the right. My private country?
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This was achieved by wrapping the fabric around a smooth rope (thanks to Benedicte), then bunching it up and rubber banding it. Then green and blue dyes were poured over.
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I twisted the fabric on the diagonal and applied pink at one end and yellow at the other.
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The fabric was accordion pleated two ways, then clamped with a heavy duty clamp and the edges of the folded fabric were dipped in the dye.
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The fabric was put down flat, then slightly scrunched and different shades of green were dribbled on.
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This is the result of accordion pleating fabric and putting clothes pins along one edge and standing it up in the dye bath.
Ann gave us a demonstration of dye painting and mono printing with thickened dyes. It was VERY interesting and she had some great quilts to show us using that method. I will definitely want to try that. I had lots of prepared dye left over that I brought home. It will keep for a couple of weeks in the refrigerator, so I will have to spend some more time on this.
Ann was a great teacher! I bought one of her books, "Color by Design". I'm sure I will have fun "working" (more like playing) my way through it.
Oh, yes, the repair man came this morning and my washing machine is back in business. Hooray!!