Our grandson is with us for a week and a half. (7 yr old)
Today is cloudy and cooler than normal.
Maybe some crafts?
Maybe skating? tried to do that yesterday but rink was closed.
We'll figure it out.
My projects are on hold until after Labor Day.
Sew see you later
Bette
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Dyeing continued day 2
Here is a close up. I used a fine point sharpie marker. It now needs to be washed again to get the hairspray out. |
On Sunday I had begun this scarf by dyeing the edges yellow. Today I added the wax. This time I used all paraffin wax. |
I mixed up a medium blue with a touch of Turquoise. I put the entire scarf in the dye bath and let it sit for almost two hours. |
Here it is after rinsing it out until the water was clear. I need to remove the wax next (another day). |
The scarf is stretched on a frame. Putting the wax on the silk. |
I was having so much fun batiking I had to start another scarf. This time I waxed the white scarf with leaves and stems, to be colored later. |
I decided to change my color scheme. |
After rinsing out the scarf. When dry it will be ready for the second layer of wax. Ahh yes another day. |
Sew see you later,
Bette
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
A little Dyeing
Last Sunday it was such a beautiful day outside. Warm low humidity and sunny. After church I thought what a perfect day to spend in the garage dyeing fabric. I had put some ideas down on paper a few months ago. I was going to work on the long thin silk scarves. However, when I looked in my stash, all I had left were square ones. OK so lets punt. I don't have pictures of the final results yet as they are not ready. I'll get back to finishing them tomorrow.
Sew See You Later!
I folded the scarf into quarters and put a rubber band on the lower part hopefully to keep it from wicking up the color to the center |
Mixing up the green procion dye, I feel like a chemist here. |
After mixing it, I put a piece of pantyhose over another cup and pour the mixed dye through it to screen out any bits of unmixed color. |
I put the lower part into the green dye and let it sit. |
The dye did wick up past the rubber band, but not too far. |
After drying the scarf, I stretched it on one of my frames, here you can see half of the batiking with wax. I used a mix of soy wax and paraffin. |
Here it is all waxed and the lower half back in a darker green the upper half in a medium blue |
The green didn't come out as dark as I wanted so I mixed up a darker batch and stuck it in. This time I left it in the dye for two and a half hours. |
Sew See You Later!
Bette
Sunday, August 12, 2012
August still sewing
Well, I took a break from sewing on the quilt. I felt I needed something I could actually finish in a reasonable amount of time.
My very good friend, who is temporarily living in England right now, found this fabric with my name on it... spelled the way I spell it! Imagine that!
So I got it out and a pattern that I thought would work and away I went. As of now it is finished except some hand work on it.
My very good friend, who is temporarily living in England right now, found this fabric with my name on it... spelled the way I spell it! Imagine that!
So I got it out and a pattern that I thought would work and away I went. As of now it is finished except some hand work on it.
I narrowed the width of the sleeve |
These are a fabulous idea, again given to me by my friend in England they are pattern weights and work terrific! |
Even though this is a knit I reinforced the shoulder neck corner and added clear elastic to the shoulders and the under arm seam in the sleeves to prevent them from growing. |
Serging the main seams. |
Done except the hems. Looking at the front. |
Looking at the back. |
Sew See You Later!
Bette
Friday, August 3, 2012
AUGUST????? YES!
I've finally gotten back to sewing. At the end of May I took a class in the Japanese Fan quilt (pattern and method by Judy Neidemeyer). This week I finally got back to it. In the picture above the three blocks on the top are what I did in class. I started 5 fan blocks in class so they could teach me how to "strip piece" them. They aren't really strip pieced but you do the same step for a bunch of blocks, then go to the next step so it does save some time.
Paper piecing |
After stitching, iron the new piece out |
Placing a piece of card stock on the next line to be stitched |
Fold the pattern back |
Put my add-a-quarter ruler on it and trim the excess seam allowance off. Just a note this add-a-quarter ruler is invaluable! I LOVE it!!! |
Add the next piece in the block and it begins all over again. |
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