Dyeing Fabrics

I have been dyeing cotton fabrics for quilters and sewers with procion dye and selling them. These are some from my last dyeing session. See any you like? Let me know if you would like any fabric.

Devore Silk/Rayon Scarf Class

On April 17 I had a dyeing class and we used procion dyes to dye devore silk/rayon satin scarves. We had a good time. This is the scarf that I demonstrated.

This was the inspiration for my scarf. I had watched this jacket at Chico's for a couple of months and it came down in price so that I felt that I could purchase it. It was a $100 jacket for $28. What do you think? Does it compliment?
The other part of the story is that I have lost 37 lbs and was needing some clothes that fit and felt very lucky that Chico's sale came along so I could get more for my money.

I will be holding another class on May 8th doing Blue Gel Glue on silk and also thicken procion dyes. Let me know if you are interested.

Book

Just bought this book on Amazon. It really has some interesting ways to dye fabric. I am going to have my noise in this book for a few days. I can tell.

More Experiments

This is  a piece of silk with ginkgo leaves done with a stencil and a shiva stick.

These are a spiral made out of paper towel and then adding the dye on the paper. I like the way the spiral image came out.

Purse

The purse is sewn out of hand dyed fabric with procion dye. The lining fabric is some commercial batik fabric.
The beaded button was made by a friend of mine.

Silk Scarf

I have been experimenting with different types of silk content scarfs. This one was stonewash crepe de chin 16mm and I really liked the texture of it and how it took the dyes.

I laid a cheese cloth stripe across the scarf to see if it would show the mesh of the weave. It didn't, but it held the dyes and made a very dark dye in that spot. I liked the look of it.
I put some salt in some places and nuts and washers. I got some rust effect and images as you can see. I used perwinkle, navy blue, gray acid dyes.
Then at the bottom of the scarf I used a stencil and with shiva sticks.

Dyeing Yarn

This was a fun experiment. I have been having fun filling some of my time with knitting socks. Knitpicks.com has what they call sock blanks that are knitted with a machine. You dye them with acid dyes and then you unravel the yarn. There are two strands so you can knit two socks at the same time. It will be interesting to see how the socks come out.