Tie-dye t-shirts

I dyed t-shirts for my brother, sil, their 6 children and the exchange student living with them this year. The children picked the colors without knowing I was going to dye t-shirts for htem. When they picked blue, green and red, I decided to do a spiral with red in the middle with blue and then green on each side of the red.

Here is a picture of the family with their t-shirts on.

Displaying dyed items

Saturday I had the opportunity to display some of my hand-dyed items as part of an art display at my church. The picture is one I took of the display. The bottom left is some silk scarves. The pink on the table is a silk scarf and some rayon I low water immersion dyed. The turquoise/royal blue and the while/purple are silks I shibbori dyed. The top at the back is a clothing blank from Dharma I low water immersion dyed.

Hand Dyed Fabrics

These fabrics are impatiently waiting to be sewn. The pink fabric is rayon challis, the aqua fabrics are silk charmeuse and silk noil, the purple fabrics are silk noil and sandwashed habotai.

New Clothes

Last weekend I bought a pretty cotton print for a skirt. When I got home and started looking for material to make a blouse to go with it, I found a turquoise linen/rayon blend top and skirt I cut out several years ago.

I then had an idea (dangerous I know) and took a picture of the print and digitized a leaf from the print. I used the embroidery machine with some thread that is almost the same color as the turquoise material. The turquoise top has several leaves across the shoulder/neck area. The turquoise skirt has several leaves up one side.


The leaves show better on the top than the skirt in the photo.

New Blog

Just started the blog to record the fiber stuff I am doing. With fiber hobbies of dyeing, spinning, weaving, surface design, sewing and designing patterns, I have many more ideas than I do time.