here is the first one...bright yellow and burgundy. i kind of lost the yellow
Second piece was with red violet and marigold. it's ok but the marigold got a bit muddy looking. think i need to do more of the yellows and less of the other colors.
Third piece was with cerulean blue and lemon yellow. this is my favorite piece. it reminds me of under the ocean (not that i have ever SEEN under the ocean..LOL). but i think it would make a great background piece for an ocean art quilt. gotta think and dream on that.
Next piece was sky blue and fire red. i want to call this one heaven and hell. haha what if i did an art quilt with angels in the top blue...regular people in the middle...and devils in the firey red at the bottom. i may have to dream on that, too. what if i put pictures of people i know...the ones i like in heaven and the ones i don't...in hell. hahahahahahaha
And this last piece was a smaller piece and i just used 1 dye..imperial purple. see how the red and blue of the purple separated? i guess the cold of the snow causes that.
These were all 2 yard pieces of PFD fabric..except for the last purple which was a piece of muslin i had laying around.
It is my first experimentation with 2 colors of dye in one dye bath. i think i want to try it again but in regular dyeing without the snow. these were put into their bins in the morning and sat all day till about 5pm..waiting for the snow to melt. had i been at the house and not at the studio all day i think i would have turned them over about halfway through the process. or perhaps not let them sit so long. they sat in the coolest room so it took most of the day for the snow to melt. perhaps if we get more snow i shall try it again and put them in the kitchen to melt and keep a closer eye. who knows....but experimentation is fun and these will all wind up in a quilt somewhere.
1 comment:
they look good Shirley! I'm with you though, the blue/green piece is my favorite too!
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