29 DAYS

A STITCHING AND DYEING ADVENTURE

Day 2

Because I never do anything in the order you are supposed to in an On-Line Workshop,
my Day 2 was different then everyone else's.
Plus I can't give away too much info.,
just show you the highlights.
After all,
this is India's class.
So Day 2 (for me) was something she calls a Diagonal Fold.
I had a couple of alright ones from this experiment,
but only the one at the top that I truly loved.
And of course I did a few more then I was told to do,
cuz it was hard to stop!

As I said,
I loved the very top one,
actually it's one of my best from the entire class.
The others are ok I guess,
but not as brilliant as the ones India was doing in her online demos.

One of the things I should have followed

 was using only distilled water instead of the hard water from my tap.

But I was so anxious to start I didn't want to take the time to go to the store to buy it.

Turns out water has a lot to do with how the dyes react to the cloth,

India explains it so much more scientifically then I.

And so does washing your fabric before you try this.

All my wool pieces were not washed beforehand,

I didn't want to chance felting them,

but next time I will launder all.

The good news is that in this Adventure we needed a lot of contrasting fabrics,

so the lighter marked ones will look good next to the darker ones.

In case you are wondering what kinds of fabric these examples are the top one is a crepe silk.

Next is cotton, then a silk/wool mixture, cotton, and then a thin silky mesh.