Fabric Dyeing

During Open Studios i demonstrated a different technique everyday and on one of the sunny days I demonstrated using different types of dyes, Procion and Dylon. I did this in a sandwich box and trays show how you can get gradients of colours and have a good dye texture pattern. I also discussed the colourwheel due to the close colour mixing. As you can see by the clothes dryer at the end of the day, I have a good stash of newly dyed fabrics.
See more inspiration on my website at www.art2inspire.co.uk

Embroidery Guild waxing Lyrical

On Wednesday evening at The Kings Lynn Embroidery Guild

Marion Barnett, who is also an artist @ The Gallery Dereham,

came and gave us a talk on 'Waxing Lyrical'.

She showed us lots of ways of using Wax, crayons, transfer techniques

and heating encaustic wax on a heat plate

to make a mono print textile.

(See the wax on the plate above in the middle).

Marion answered lots of questions and we all

had a feel of the different types of waxed printed fabrics.

Love, Marion's dyed fabrics.

See more of Marion's work on her blog

www.artmixter.blogspot.com

Gallery Tuesday 18th October 2011

I love teaching @The Gallery in Dereham on

'Textile Tuesdays', as I am able to help students

create with lots of different medias.

Ann has been very busy and wanted to get stuck into some real

art creating on fabric.

She had brought several different types of fabric

and some squares of silk and got painting

with a mixture of fabric paints.

Making textures by using different tools to

apply the paint as well as salt to extract the colour.

When they were dry or almost it was out with

the heat gun and soldering iron to melt and

'cut out' the flower shapes.

see more of Ann's work over the

next couple of weeks as it builds into a wall hanging.

See more of what goes on @The Gallery

www.thegallerydereham.co.uk

Dyeing Fabric Day

After doing a few jobs in the garden I decided to do

some fabric dyeing. I had been thinking about it for

a few weeks and had got all the things together.

I had use Dylon Dyes, that I had some from previous

dye day along with a couple I had been given.

I fix them with salt and soda, so it is really easy to do.

I used old cotton sheets and some dyed fabrics which

were a little pale from last time, these were

all dyed in plastic bags.

Each bag has some dye put in and the salt and soda

and given a good mix, you can either add the fabric or

mix in some cold water to dilute the colour.

Leave to cure!

I love rinsing the fabrics out and hanging on the line to see

the colour range.

I dyed blues, reds, yellows, green and purple

with a few mixed shades in between.

On the line above you can see the yellows going into

orange and red.

See some of my quilts that use my fabrics

on my website

www.art2inspire.co.uk