New Shibori Shirt

I made a new Shibori shirt last week using itajime techniques. 

I accordion folded the shirt and secured the folds with rubber bands on the lower half. 

 On the upper half did a lot of scrunching and secured those with rubber bands also

 as you can see in the picture below.

Next I applied the dyes and let it batch overnight.

Here's my new shirt. 

More Shibori Fun

A couple of weeks ago I dyed this Dharma Rayon shirt using the Arashi technique. 

The shirt's a little large on me, but I really like the drape of the rayon and how good it feels.

I had a couple friends from my lap swim program come over to do some T-Shirt Dyeing in my studio-barn. Here's a couple of their shirts. The one below was a very nice linen shirt. Although I had a  good variety of colors available, she apparently liked the same colors I used.

Front

Back

The shirt above was a 100% cotton from Kohls.

Below are a  couple of faux shibori, or fauxbori as Betty Busby called them. We used Dye-na-Flow paint on these. The top piece is silk, which was placed on top of the cotton you see below. 

Good way to get a two for one deal. Not sure what I'll do with them, 

but I like how they relate to each other.

  

Below is another 'faux-bori' silk piece.

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.