Red and green leaves

I've been doing background stitching on the leaf I showed last time. When the stitching is finished I'll paint dye over the whole piece.


I'm planning on using some muted greens, the picture below is my inspiration.


Every summer I plant the barrel that's next to my studio door with plants that have interesting leaves. This is how it looks this summer.

Experiment update

I've painted darker dye over the pastel piece from my last post. I'm still not happy with it, but since it was an experiment I'm calling it done. I do like the process and how it works, so I'm moving on to another experiment




This is the newest one, I drew a leaf, stitched it , gathered the threads and painted on dye.



This is how it looks after the stitching is taken out. This one I like and am trying to decide what to do next.

Art Cloth and my new experiment

Dotti asked about Jane Dunnewold's new book and I gave a quick reply, the book deserves much more than a quick reply. I'm a big fan of Jane and the way she teaches, she covers everything and shares all that she knows. Safety issues, trouble shooting, all that she has learned from experience is in this book. I completed the Art cloth Mastery class in February, it took two years to do, she has managed to get it all in this book. I highly recommend it.

I've finished the stitched shibori piece that I stitched again after taking out the resist stitches. This is how it looked yesterday morning.



This is what it looked like after I painted the dye on and left it to batch overnight.



This is how it looks after washing out this morning.




It came out a bit more pastel than I wanted. I was going for a medium shade and was afraid to use to strong a dye mixture - now I know better, next one will be more intense. I like the texture that I got, I like the process, even though it is extremely labor intensive, so I'm trying to figure out how to use it for an art quilt.