Finally, the bleach

  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 [...]

MORE fun with bleach (and bleach-like substances)

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 [...]

Fun with Bleach!

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:   [...]

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