Jul 27, 2010

Batik and Dye party!

This is the time of the summer when I start to run out of fabric.  As a teacher I have my summers off, so I  choose to spend my summer creating tons of new work for all of my shows in the fall.  
For the first time ever I was brave enough to do batik on my own in my studio.  I loved it! 
I just need to get a Tjanting tool now.  



I also did some more basic dying.   Which didn't go as well as I would have liked.  I have all of my dye books and journals in storage, which I didn't think would be a problem. I dye fabric all the time on a need basis, so I figured I would just be able to remember what I was doing.  I though I would try to do a fabric parfait which is harder to do then I remembered.  Basically I didn't do something right because I ended up with 5 pieces of orangey-red fabric, non of which is particularly cool.   O well they will be a great base for BATIK!
 

3 comments:

  1. Looks like my basement right now. Great fun, eh? Lovely work.

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  2. What fun though! Thanks for posting pics.

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  3. Hi Liz,
    Welcome to the batik world!.I have surfed your website and I think it's COOL!.
    www.blossombatik.com

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