It took me all day long to shoot, edit, and then post this 5 minute YouTube video. Yes....it's true....ALLLLLLLL day! The next one will be easier I am sure because the hardest part was trying to figure out how to edit the thing using some 12 year old boy's TERRIBLE video on the subject which may be what I tackle next- how to do this if you are 58 years old and clueless.
Anyway- here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HRzhXAIYJQ
This problem of poor results when dyeing comes up again and again in my Quilt University classes and total strangers, out of the blue, from all over the world, find me on the internet and ask what they are doing wrong so I thought I would run the video to help people over the first hurdles as well as do some advertising for Fabric Designs and QU as well.
The out takes were great. Someday I will show you a few of them. My favorite is when I didn't know the camera was still going and I was thinking about what I should say and how I should say it.....whoooohahha. It's "Crazy San Francisco Person" good, if you know what I mean.
Love you all. Anyone dyeing out there? I have about 80 belly dancing veils in need of dyeing coming my way. Wanna see? I'll take you along on the journey if you want to watch.
Online fabric designing classes I teach at Quilt University.com (www.quiltuniversity.com)-
- Three Unusual Ways to Dye- (spray dyeing, discharge dyeing, using potato dextrin)-4/26
- Shibori Dyeing-5/10
- Thick and Thin (using sodium alginate as a dye thickener)-5/31
- Dyeing Cotton-6/21
- Tea and Spice Dyeing-6/12
- Dyeing Wool-6/26
- Fabric Painting-8/16
- Dyeing Silk-8/2
- Quilter's Palette-9/6
- Batik-9/20
- Three Unusual Ways to Dye-10/4
- Thick and Thin- 10/18
7 comments:
Hello Marjie,
it is good to see you "in the flesh"!Great video.
I hope that life is good and full of fun and love,
Anna K (form Oz)
ANNNNNNNA! Email me! Tell me what is up in your life these days. I've missed you.
Loved the video!! Am ready to start dyeing again. Long winter here in Bishop, and lots of on-going sewing projects.
Penny
Hi Penny! Thanks for the comment and feedback.
Marjie - the video is great. Should really help those who are struggling with poor results. I love the blogs about dyeing with oxalis and olives, really shows how there are items all around us that we can use...if we're willing to experiment and have some fun. Note to self -- put in a BBQ pit, tell hubby it's for grilling... knowing it will be used for dyeing...shhhhhh!
Lee
hahahhaha. Lee. Saw "My Big, Fat, Greek Wedding" last night for the first time. There's a line in it about the man being the head but the woman being the neck which turns the head this way and that way....um hummmm.
ha ha ha -- I had to laugh (well perhaps chuckle silently to myself) because I can see me working similar magic with my DH!!
Lee
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