Saved a Shirt

This was my favorite colored shirt. Then I got pink dye on the bottom of it. It covered nicely with a dip in brilliant blue. So glad to have my shirt back.

Interesting piece

This is a piece of sateen cotton that I decided to experiment with this summer. I put it in a jar of water and added avocado pits. It sat all summer. It didn't do anything that exciting, but turn grey. Then I rusted it to make it more interesting. Then I dyed it with safari grey. It looks pretty good now. A long process, but fun to have a challenge.

A new project finished

Took another patch of grass out to accommodate a fountain. Arranged some planted pots and added some glass rocks. Have some old twin bed foot and head boards behind the fountain that I found at a garage sale.

Christmas is coming

My six grandchildren will be happy with these Christmas tye dye shirts. This one was wrapped around a large nylon rope and it makes it look like water or bubbles. One of my grandchildren has a tye dye shirt for each day that he wears to school. He spent the night last weekend and made his own. I delivered it to his house today and I am sure he will be explaining to his friends tomorrow at school that he did the shirt himself.

Napkins and Table Clothes

My wheels are spinning with ideas of what I can do with the pile of linen table clothes and napkins I have. This shirt has four napkins and one each for the sleeves. Notice the pockets are on top of each other. Thought that created a different look. Some nice vintage buttons seems to set them off.

The back is a table cloth and the design of the table cloth really stands out.

Back in the Garden

I enjoy doing these little minature displays. This is a stone house that has a frog on top of it. A nursery near us went out of business and this was one of the things I was delighted to get. The Goodwill had the little rabbit that fit perfect into the scene I was creating. The bright shiny glass pieces were from a estate sale and so was the pot. I am learning to put together all that I collect and create a new atmosphere in the garden.

Cooking Oatmeal

I bet you thought that I was making my breakfast. This was a lot more fun. I spread a layer of oatmeal on 1 yard of fabric that I had dyed with procion dye and then soy waxed and then dyed again. I don't know if you remember but this was the piece that needed something more from my soywax workshop. That is where I decided to use some oatmeal for a resist. Here it is setting out in the sun drying. It was the first day of sun. It was suppose to have dried in a couple of days, but it took seven because it was so cold.

Once it dried I cracked it and then put dye and thickener on it. This was in Quilting Arts Magazine. I like the way it has a nice cracked look now.