After lunch we moved on to discharge dyeing with bleach and bleach containing products. We wanted to keep the discharge paste separate from the bleach as we didn’t know if combining them would give off any mushroom-shaped clouds of toxic fumes. (cough, cough).
Besides liquid bleach, which we mixed 50/50 with water in spray bottles, we [...]
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Next up was Kay’s session on marbelling. You fill a shallow tray with cheap-o shaving cream, then dribble on paints or inks. Stir the colors around with a skewer, comb through them with a hair pick, and once you have a design you like, lay your fabric on top. Press it down, pull it off, [...]
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Today was the day. Jeri and Kay were here for Art Quilt Group. (Maybe we should come up with a more creative name? After all, we’re trying to be creative.)
We started with discharge dying using discharge paste. We did that first because you’re supposed to wait until it dries, then cause the discharge to happen [...]
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My art quilting group is meeting at my home next Saturday. I’m supposed to be leading us in discharge dyeing. So I thought I should try some of it for the first time!
I bought 1/8 yard cuts of fabric to test and see which ones would give good results. Gathered my supplies yesterday:
To test the [...]
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