More Shibori Shenanigans

Dyed some more fabric in my blue and green series. I'm trying to get enough to create a new quilt. For that I need lots of different values of those colors.   Here's some of my new ones and a picture of my design wall with possibilities.

And last, but not least, a fun picture of my friend Phyllis and her granddaughter

having a great time dyeing shirts in my studio.

New Itajime and Arashi Shibori Fabrics and Shirt

Here are some new dyed fabrics and a shirt I made 

 with a fun group of women, part of the Sew Whatz group,  in the studio barn on Saturday.

This is a T-Shirt I over-dyed using the Arashi Shibori technique. It had been previously ice-dyed but needed another layer of pattern to tie it all together into a more cohesive design.

This is an example of the honeycomb technique.

To learn more about that technique, see my post previous to this one. 

I like the water-like texture in these honeycomb pieces.

I used hexagon shaped tiles to create this clamped resist piece shown above.

I think it resembles glowing bugs with long antennae and legs.

Above is an example of stitched resist know as Komasu Shibori.

The one above is folded just like the stitched one above it, 

but you use only rubber bands

 to create the patterns.  I like it quite a bit and it's easier.

For the one above I used two balsa wood cut outs of a maple leaf  I bought at Michaels, clamped together with fabric in-between them. 

The piece above was accordion folded and held together with rubber bands. 

It's done on linen.

New Arashi Shibori Quilt

I used one of my latest shibori pieces in a new little quilt 

 about the raging fires last year in the central coast area of California. There's already been fires in Southern California, and in New Mexico and Colorado this last week.

The trees are cut from cheesecloth I dyed black. 

I then put a layer of tulle over it and machine quilted it.

On a lighter note, here are some pictures of hollyhocks in my garden.  

I have tried for years to grow them with no luck, 

but this year, the seeds took to the soil and they are gorgeous!

New Arashi Shibori Fabrics

Made some new Arashi Sibori fabrics this weekend. Hadn't done any arashi shibori in way too long. It's relatively quick and you usually get some nice results. 

 The one above and two below were created to capture the look of fire.

The shibori below was done on a previously eco-dyed piece that hadn't turned out very well. 

I really like the interaction of the rusty eco stains with the turquoise.

The fabric below was a commercial print that I had over-dyed once

 and it needed some more color and texture.

More Itajime

Once your dyes are all made up and in squirt bottles, the dyeing goes very fast.

 Having done that about a month ago or so, it didn't take me very long to put together a few new pieces. Having way too much fun with this technique.

Fabric was accordion folded and tied to the PVC  piece at an angle to create chevron stripes.

Below is the resulting fabric.

Itajime  using chopsticks and washers.

Itajime using larger sticks. Prior to putting those on, I used large washers clamped to the fabric to create a circular design underneath that you see in the finished piece.

 For this one, I accordion folded the fabric, wound it around a spool using rubber bands

 to secure in and drizzled dye on the folded edges.

Shibori Shirts for Almond Country Quilt Guild Auction

Here are a couple of Shibori Shirts that I have donated to the Almond Country Quilt Guild Auction which will be November 5th at Trinity Lutheran Church in Paso Robles.  Go to http://www.acqguild.com/holiday-auction-2016/  for more information.

Planning New Shibori Quilt

This is what I sewed together late last night, thinking it was pretty good. 

 

This morning it didn't look as exciting as it did last night, so I did this:

 

Then I pinned up this variation:

Followed by this last variation:

 

So if you are looking at this, please give me some feedback as to what you think is most interesting, 1, 2, 3 or 4.  I'm leaning towards 3 or 4.

 

Shibori Shirts

Did some Arashi Shibori on  three shirts Sunday.

This one is a linen shirt with embroidered areas that stayed white

 due to the polyester thread in them.

This was done on a yellow Land's End T-shirt.

This was done on a Dharma White T-Shirt.

More Shibori and Discharged Fabrics

Here are a couple more fabrics I made recently.The one below was an ice-dyed piece that I arashi shibori dyed.  Below is a closeup of one area.

This was an ice dyed piece as well which I then stamped using a bleach gel.  I think the gel was little old and not very strong.  Might need to do more of that to this one when I have a chance.

Shibori with Paint and Photoshop

Last week I was looking again at my Citrsolv experiments, which resulted in some pretty cool textural prints,  but needed more of a focal point to create interest.

 

Many artists use these Citrasolv papers as background for collages. If you don't know about this process a good video to find about about it is one by Cathy Taylor of Cheap Joes's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FskgfDxI__M  The Citrsolv website is also a great place to check out what artists are doing with this technique,  http://citrasolv.com/  Once there, go to Artist Support.  Basically, you use a natural, citrus based cleaning product called Citrasolv, which you can buy online or at health food stores.  You apply it to pages in a National Geographic magazine, shut the magazine, let it sit for 2 to 24 hours, then open it up to see the interesting results obtained through the ink being dissolved by the cleaner. 

This last week I layered a photo of a shibori piece over a couple of my Citrasolv pieces, increasing the transparency of the top piece.  This is what resulted.

Here is a photo of the  Shibori piece. I did this with paint, rather than dye, something else I've been wanting to try.  I rather like it, and it was much easier than using dye.  The fabric is not quite as soft however.

Above are photos of the layered images.