This last weekend, I went through my ever increasing stack of hand-dyed fabrics to figure out what to do with them. Some of the shibori and ice dyed fabrics have such intense areas of pattern that to cut them up seems a shame. Yet, I don't think they are all candidates for whole cloth quilts either. A few of them might be. So I threw these up onto my design wall to see how they would work with each other and did a few sketches. The marbled fabrics are a little tricky to integrate well with other fabrics. So I was looking at patterns and colors that played well with each other. All of the ones below are hand-dyes except for the one with the gorgeous black background with green and orange patterns third from the right end. I picked that one up at PIQF at the Ananse Village booth. They always have such wonderful batiks from Africa.
The small strip of black and white patterned fabric on the right is also commercial. Black and white seems to always work well with lots of brights.
Sometimes I think I should just try to sell all my dyed fabrics, but I like them too much and it's a lot of work marketing yourself online, for which I don't have time or interst. Looking forward to having some time to figure this all out.
Love the marbled fabric on the right in the last picture.
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