Dyeing!

Our Text'Art show is happening soon  (May 12-17 at Galerie Ouest in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue)  and I am dyeing scarves and socks to sell.  Here is a sample of some of them.  They come from Dharma Trading and dye up very nicely.  Some the scarf on the far left is devoré velvet and the others have a silk design on a rayon base.  They really slurp up the dye in a wonderful fashion.  

Phoenix Feathers are finished

Let's go back to the beginning.  This was very finely quilted on my Gammill.  I am quite chuffed with the way it turned out.  I think I practically had my nose beside the needle trying to see what I was doing!  It was done on white PFD with white cotton (Alex Anderson) and then it was dyed.  The first dyeing was a little too blotchy so I bleached it, then over dyed it.  Which is the result below.   It looked good up close but didn't really draw attention.

So I started to paint.  I put gold paint mixed with red and yellow on all the circles and flames.  Then put yellow on the suns.   Still not happy,  so out came the paint stix (markels) and the yellow showed up really well.  I then used a dark red on the feathers.  I feel that it has a little pizzaz now, but I sure would do things differently next time!