Do you remember Captain Kangaroo? Even he got into Shibori/tie-dye.
Entries Tagged as ‘dyeing’
9 June, 2009
Handdyed Fabric Giveaway!
Remember back in May when we did tie-dye for the WEF and I said we also dyed some fabric? Well here, finally, are the pictures! I am very happy with the way they turned out, the best part it they are so simple to do and a great way to use up the last bits [...]
8 June, 2009
Solar Surface Design
This weekend Libby and I had some fun with Cyanotype sun printing. We used Blueprints on Fabric squares and a dried sea fan I got a while ago from Urban Indigo. Rather appropriate for Ocean Day.
18 May, 2009
Tied and Dyed
Some color for a Monday, these are the other tie-dyed shirts that we wore to the Whole Earth Festival.
My tank top. Raspberry, turquoise, golden yellow and avocado green.
Libby’s T-shirt. Golden yellow, avacado green and azure blue.
12 May, 2009
Whole Earth Festival 2009
We started with the first cherries of the season at the farmer’s market. We bought a big bag and munched on them all day in the warm sun.
There was music and dancing on the quad, we crashed on a blanket and ate more cherries and shared Carrie’s garlic fries.
There were booths with clothes of all [...]
4 May, 2009
Dye Me Mine
This next Saturday is the Whole Earth Festival at UC Davis. It is a giant low impact festival with lots of craft vendors, live music, vegetarian food, drum circles, solar panels, improvisational dancing, and it is lots of fun; a mini Woodstock if you will. Of course there will be lots of tie-dye being sold [...]
17 April, 2009
Madder then a Hatter
A few weeks ago I got some Henry’s Attic laceweight Alpaca and dyed it up with some madder. I promised folks pictures and now I finally got a decent one that isn’t too washed out. Pastels are hard to photograph!
I used an alum mordant and an extract that I made with about 4 oz (1/4 [...]
24 March, 2009
Blue Yarn and Wooly Batts
Another dye experiment in acid dye blues for Libby. She is keeping this one.
We played around with the drum carder that I rescued from my mom who hasn’t used it in years. We were pretty impressed how the random end bits of roving Libby had became nice fluffy batts. Can’t wait for Libby to try [...]
16 February, 2009
A Dyeing Experiment
A little while back, the same day in fact as the making of the stockings, my friend Libby and I decided we needed to to try a little experiment with some wool yarn I had gotten in a yarn swap. The yarn we wanted to dye is wound in those little pats that aren’t really [...]
