Fabric Dyeing

Blue gradation

Well, I've decided to attempt fabric dyeing.  These are a few photos of my first attempt.  I only bought the three primary colors, and tried to blend them myself.  They look pretty good for a first attempt, but I did decide to buy more colors.  Who knew that the primary colors for fabric dye are, fushia instead of red, turquoise instead of blue, and then yellow?  It was an experience, but I think I got a pretty good color gradation, but the second and third from the bottom were very close in color, but there is a slight difference, which should be enough for what I plan to do.  This was supposed to be a blue / green gradation.  Next I guess I'll try a Red / orange.  Then, I would like to try my hand at batik or something with more than one color.

This is when the fabric was still wet.  There was a little more difference in the colors before they dried.

Here they are in the "dye vats".  I used easter buckets.  LOL

Happy Belated Mother's day!

I can't believe it's been almost a month since I last posted!  I get so caught up in business it's crazy. 

First of all I hope everyone had a great Mother's day.  I got to talk to all my kids, and my little Hannah made me a gift with the help of her mommy.  It's really a cute idea.  

Her Mommy spelled the words out with tape, then Hannah painted it using her hands. I just love it don't you?

  

Here are some recent customer quilts I've finished. 

This is one of Pat's quilts.  It's the same block of the month that I recently finished for myself.  Jamestown BOM.  She did a great job.  It's quilted with edge to edge in the center, with a little custom on the borders. 

 Here is a close up of the borders on Pat's quilt.  You can't really see it well.  It's got a curling scroll in the blue border, and large feathers in the red and white border.

A T-shirt quilt I did for a friend LaTisha.  It's from her sorority days.

A close up.  They had strawberrys as a theme, so I found a strawberry pantograph to quilt it with.  She loved it.

Well, that's all for today.  I'll be back soon.  Ya'll have a blessed day!