Maggie Greys work 

WOW WOW WOW

Workshop On the Web WOW for short

If some of you ladies have never heard of the website that you subscribe to ...... have a look
there is a taster one.
I just wanted to mention that Maggie Grey is going to be in Vancouver canada and if you can .... do attend she has some fab, fab work and her book Raising the surface is wonderful as well.
I have met her and she is a wonderful lady she is exhibiting with complex cloth very up and coming thing including Jane Dunnwold ... for those who dont know who she is she has an excellent book out called Complex cloth. check this website out.

Here is the blurb about the vancouver show


Maggie is having an exhibition to coincide with teaching in Vancouver. Running from 8-18 September at the fibreEssence gallery in Dunbar Street, Raising the Surface will examine the role of texture and form - ranging from surface stitching to three dimensional works. Sketchbooks and design boards will accompany the work. The embroidery, detail shown right, is called Leaf Flight and is part of a series based on Rainforest studies. Maggie will be in illustrious company for part of the exhibition as Complex Cloth, selected works by Jane Dunnewold, will share the gallery space from 15-18 September.fibreEssence, 3210 Dunbar Street at 16th, Vancouver, BC, V6S 2B7, Canada, tel. 604 738 1282, email



DONT MISS IT IF YOUR NEAR THERE

Elmers glue

Elmers blue gel glue washable

Right trying to find this in the UK but no luck :(
I want to get a few of these for an experiment
Can I be so bold as to ask someone in the USA
to send me over a few of these and I can give them
the money for it? Its to try a dyeing technique.

Fan fold dyeing

For Linda of Occasional Jottings
This is the technique used for fan folding and dyeing the fabric.
Linda this one is an older piece, so I just took the fabric fan folded it and
clamped it with clothes pegs as shown. Put some dye into the container that
you will be using and put in piece this will soak up some of the colour from
one side... then you take a spoon or squirty device and pour this on the top of
the piece so you get two colours bits of darker on one side
and lighter on the other... give it a go and see how yours turns out.

ta for now ironing and sewing on a lovely day off today.

Hand dyeing day

fan folded technique

Well here I was today doing some hand dyeing when I
am supposed to be finishing up sewing things for my
show at work in the common room. Do I have any pieces ready
NOPE , well I could put some older stuff up that they have
not really seen ... but we will have to see what I get done.
But as promised I said I would post these for you to see.
I think that either I am not using enough dye powder or
for some reason there is too much polyester in the fabric
some were old pillow cases so ... who knows that the content
was ???

oh my goodness Dijanne more pink well magenta really!! 

hmm who cut bits out !!! 

couple more pieces some a bit wishy washy hmmm may need to use more dye powder 

in the pot indigo and turquoise 

indigo and turquoise 

Thick Bleach experiment

Technique of thick bleach on black tshirt

A little experiment with thick bleach on a black tshirt.
I have been wanting to try bleach on black for some time now
and decided to give it a go. Here are the results, I am very
pleased with them.
I also thought it might be an idea to do some hand dyeing
as I was doing a few loads of washing anyways....
as I took the last load out of the washing machine, I thought hmmm
funny smell and looked near the machine and little puffs of smoke
were coming from the machine!!!!!! This cannot be good, I havent
tried the machine as of yet and something I think burned out.
We have been looking around anyways for a toploader instead
of the front one so its one way to burn out the old machine.
I am going to do some dyeing anyways today just rinse them out
well and swish them in some soapy water hopefully they will come
out fine... sooooo pics of those dyed pieces later today... till then ;)

Experiment with thick bleach