I have made great progress testing the new lessons for the next Quilt University class on how to use dye thickeners. Lesson Three will involve stamping and stenciling projects. Above is the fabric I printed today using wooden stamps. Love it, love it, love it. Easy to do once you get in the groove.
Here is a detail of the printed fabric. Hope you are getting as excited about it as I am to write it up and get it going!
Turned the fabric into a tote bag. Easy! Used the printed fabric for the binding and as an accent and hand dyed the other fabric using the left over dye from the printing process.
So- three lessons down; one more to go. Then the writing begins. It's not going to be hard but there are some fine tuning experiments yet to be done to ward off the "what if" demons that like to sneak up on me via the fertile minds of my QU students. If I don't try all the loop holes, someone else will and I want to be ready for any and everything that comes my way.
Happy dyeing everyone!
3 comments:
Hi Marjie,
I love your stamped fabric! Where did you get your wood stamps? I guess I can google it. I tried to find some wood stamps for the batik class but didn't find any. cute tote bag, too. The class looks like fun. I will take it!
Kristin F. in SC
I got the stamps at Lillian Vernon mail order a few years back. See if they still have them.
Thanks, Marjie!
Kristin F.
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