Hands on Textiles

adding MX to corn dextrin

2008-06-27T15:26:00.000-07:00

8 TBL Turquoise MX dye and soda ash were added to 1 3/4 cup pre-mixed corn dextrin. This was applied to the cloth and allowed to dry. Fushia was then sprayed over and the fabric batched. Later, I took some of the resulting fabric and added the black, then pieced the two fabrics back together.
If I remember correctly, I found that if I rolled or squeeged the fushia over the dry turquoise/corn dextrin, the turquoise bled into the fushia. Spraying solved that problem.

Fences

2008-03-21T13:39:00.000-07:00

Gold commercial cotton, muslin, hand-dyed blue and red fabric, red coral beads and cotton batting. Reverse applique, hand applique, machine cording and machine quilting. 16" x 16".

Collection of Blake Russell.

Circles

2008-01-25T08:24:00.000-08:00

1oo% silk with cottton batting. Machine applique and hand quilting. Machine cording. MX alkaline dyes. 27" x 21". $250.00

Connect the Circles

2008-01-17T13:15:00.000-08:00

Cotton canvas and burlap. MX dyes. Reverse applique method. 20" x 25" $150.00.

city life

2007-10-24T07:56:00.000-07:00

MX dyes on cotton canvas with beads and buttons. Cotton cording. No batting. 14 1/4" x 59 1/2" $250.00

where fiber meets the computer age

2007-09-20T08:06:00.000-07:00

MX dyes, both immersion and with thickened alginate. Machine cording and beads and buttons! The black beads are faceted glass, the white buttons are vintage plastic, and the small rectangle beads are shell. All on #10 canvas. 15" x 40".

sold

sprayed MX

2007-09-02T13:09:00.000-07:00

Good old MX sprayed over sumack leaves. Outlined in rayon cording. This fabric is a heavy ribbed cotton bordered with duck. 15" x 44 1/2". $80.00.

quilted wall hanging

2007-08-30T14:30:00.000-07:00

100% hand-dyed cotton, polyester batting.

Fabrics hand printed using mx and remazol dyes. Machine pieced. Machine cording. 12 1/2" x 35 1/2" $125.00

faux dropcloths

2007-08-22T09:16:00.000-07:00

Odd Squares

2007-08-09T15:13:00.000-07:00

Cottons hand dyed with fiber reactive dyes. Machine cording. Polyester batting. 14" x 36".

dropcloth pillow

2007-08-07T14:09:00.000-07:00

100% cotton canvas pillow with polyester filling. Center black and yellow fabric created using reactive resist method. Pink border was Low Water Immersion. Main fabric was from a dropcloth deliberately stamped. Solid black back. Center buttons front and back. 14" x 14"

From Fuschia and Turquoise

2007-08-05T13:09:00.000-07:00

100% cotton. Low water immersion. Machine cording. On its way to Tamarack!12 1/4" x 35 1/2"

Dream State

2007-07-30T15:10:00.000-07:00

100% cotton canvas. Center front piece MX dyes applied by rolling, stamping, spraying, and dripping. Border (and back) reactive risist method using Remazol and MX dyes. 14 1/4" x 51"

Sold.

Second Tamarack order

2007-07-29T07:40:00.000-07:00

Traditional pieced tumbling blocks pattern. Crackle was achieved with potato dextrin. Orange and yellow applied with sponge brushes. Black fabric had dye rolled on. 100% cotton canvas with polyester batting. 15 1/2" x 23 1/2"

Table runner or wall hanging. MX dye sprayed over sumac. Darker leaves had dye rolled on then they were used as a stamp.
Darker leaves are Sweet and Sour vine and May Apple. Machine cording outlines leaves. No batting. 14 1/2" x 45"

100% cotton canvas. Created with colored corn dextrin. Machine cording. Polyester batting. 14 x 35 1/2

100% cotton canvas. Potato dextrin and sponge brushes. Turquoise piping around reverse applique square. Framed. (not part of this Tamarack order) 10" x 12" For sale: $40.00

Inner Workings

2007-07-24T17:16:00.000-07:00

The second in a series! 100% cotton and again with the embroidery, scout badge in the hand (a treasure chest) and a spider on the brain! 13" x 13" $200.00

My Psyche

2007-07-14T12:28:00.000-07:00

It's stuffed! Hand-dyed fabrics with hand embroidery. The center of the hand sports my old girl scout badge with a girl on a flying carpet! The head has a crazy eye and a spider with her web in the brain area! This was lots of fun to do!
17 " x 17" $200.00

First Order to Tamarack

2007-07-12T13:58:00.000-07:00

55%linen, 45%cotton. All fabrics were immersion dyed. The turquoise lines are machine cording!

Cotton canvas. Colored corn dextrin resist. The turquoise was in the dextrin and after it dried, I sprayed fuschia over top! The white lines are machine cording.

55%linen
45%cotton
blind tucks

55%linen, 45%cotton. Beaded and quilted.

Woven Low Water Immersion strips!

This was very simple fabric to dye! First, a spray of orange. Next, layer the sumac leaves on and spray around them with fuschia. Last, roll fig leaves with brown and use them like a stamp!