I don’t have too much experience in scrunch dying. This
is of course my fault. So trying to mend this gap i’ll try to adorn myself with
borrowed plumes ...
To keep it in
line, first my few examples.
Though I dye all my fabric myself, I do mostly solid colours. My older scrunch
dyed fabrics ended up sewn as dresses.
Here is one which a friend of mine streched as a colour panel for her
wall.
I did some new scrunch dyeing this month, using not only monochrome or
analogue colours but the whole palette: mixing red, bright orange, sun yellow, intense blue.
Here is one with intense blue and bright orange.
What interested me more, to make a nice scrunch-dyed fabric with pale
colours. I found dyeing pale colors much more difficult as strong ones and
apparently I still have to work on the right dosage.
And here are my ice-cube scrunch-dyed fabrics. During the process
and the results
The blue became very pale
and though I used mixing red (a slower red) it still turned out too close to
fuchsia. The results both in the blue and in the red, I think have to do with
the cold.
And now the borrowed plumes: They are from my friend Heide Stoll-Weber
who is a magnificent dyer and who’s beautiful fabrics are very sought after, at
least here in Europe. I asked Heide for some examples, how she uses her
multicolored, scrunch-dyed fabrics.
First five quilts of her older series, Sprituals. They are machine-pieced
and embroidered with seed-stitch with hand-dyed embroidery floss.
Thanks for reading it and I'm happy to hear your comments.
