Fabrics needing a pattern/design

I went stash exploring last weekend and found these fabrics. Unfortunately, they don't know what they want to be yet ;-) though the floral and the purple want to stay together. All are woven lightweight cottons or poly/cotton blends.

The floral is 40" wide. I have a 1 1/4 yd piece and a 3 yd piece. The light purple is 60" wide. I have 3 1/2 yds.

The navy on white print is 58" wide. I have 2 1/4 yds.

Success with pleats

I finally have a blouse pattern with forward shoulder seams and pleats that I like. The best part is it fits. Last fall I tried making such a pattern with flat pattern drafting with no success. Enter Matilda, my too small dress form with a padded cover that is the same size as I am. I draped the pattern on Matilda and cut the blouse with large seam allowances. The collar I took from a commerical pattern. I made a matching 8-gore skirt.

Apology

Until tonight I didn't realize there were comments waiting for me to approve them. I changed the blog so comments aren't moderated. I apologize to those who posted comments that were then ignored. Thanks for the feedback!

Show Entries and Rayon Chenille

My weaving guild has a show “Utah Fiber Celebration” this spring. Here are pictures of the scarves I entered. For more about the show, check out the article in a local paper.

The scarves in the basket are square silk scarves I dyed. The other scarf is a rayon chenille shadow weave scarf. This was my first finished chenille piece. It is so soft after wet finishing.

I have since woven 2 plain weave rayon chenille scarves. The first was woven with the silver used in the shadow weave scarf. I didn't take a picture before I gave it to a friend.

The second was woven with white chenille. After wet finishing, I plan on dyeing the scarf. I have a shawl on the loom and warps wound for another shawl and 2 scarves.

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.