2024, hand bleached and dyed denim, cotton batting and thread
inspired by blackwater photography of plankton! this was my first time layering bleach painting. All the silhouettes were painted with bleaching gel, loosely tie dyed, and then bleached again to make the highlights. I quilted the piece using my free motion foot to outline each individual animal and tacked down the rest of the quilt with small satin stitches that remind me of marine snow. I dyed bias tape to match. super happy with this one and excited to show it in a gallery setting soon!
After my last con, I needed a quick little palette cleanser personal project - I love making things for other people, but sometimes you need to make something for yourself! I decided that what I wanted was a little friend to sit up on top of the Color Machine, and the sheep from the logo design felt like a perfect choice. She’s accompanied by dye bottles and a couple little balls of wool, and has a magnet in her base to help her stay steady up on top.
This was a personal piece and is not for sale, but my commissions are currently open and I’d love to talk ideas with anyone who wants to add a felted friend to their world!
Here are the results from my week of dyeing!! I shared the last two photos already but I wanted to post them all as a group. The first four (plus a couple more) are available in my shop right now ✨ and if you buy fiber from me PLEASE tag me in any photo posts of your finished yarn once (if) you spin it, I need to see it 👀
1 bobbin from wheel to skein I have a 2nd bobbin too that missed the photo.
About 270m from 150g of a simple 2 ply. Its about a dk thickness.
The fibre is merino that I dyed with brown onion skins to get the yellow. The quality of the wool was not the best, so this turned out actually way better than I feared. I love the subtle variation in colour of the yellows, it's so pretty!
Have recently discovered the joys of knitting icords. Realized I could turn all my old thin yarns into icords and finally get them out of my stash. This yarn was one of the early ones, and also maybe my second or third dyeing attempt (with food coloring). It's southdown babydoll, spun 2 ply on a drop spindle. Should make a nice long cord. No, I don't have plans for the cord. That's not relevant.
I've been IN the dye pots y'all. New braids dropping in my shop very soon. I have so much wool to spin right now. It's literally all over the house. We've way over capacity. I need to finish the lace weight spin on my EEW and my spindle spin and then maybe I'll do a poll on what to spin next, because I am currently SPOILED for choice. and. famously bad at choosing 😂