wow! life seems to keep getting in the way... i have several drafted posts that just can't seem to finish manifesting for one reason or another. so i've decided to take a few moments and simply tie knots and wrap fabric strips to do a little judesque experimentation... am tossing bits into the yard to see what happens to them. am eyeballing a few more strips and scraps for similar experimentation...and even, perhaps, applying a bit of shibori technique (would this be shiboreco? ha!), but then allowing the elements and time to be the dyes. it shall be interested to watch. more on these soon...
in the meantime, i have a few more hours of needle chanting to accomplish, and then some much needed, often neglected, sleep to catch up on... and then a fun trip into town to mail off some fabrics to a dear person in australia and to hopefully pick up a stack or two of packages of fiber treasures that i've been waiting for from india, indonesia and japan!
namaste'
knots are a great idea for a shibori type effect. I'm going to try that as I'm getting ready to do some dyeing today. thanks for the idea.
ReplyDeletei'm also thinking of doing some stitched ones...like leaves and arcs and things. it will be wonderfully interesting to see what the elements make of those...
ReplyDeleteLove to see what will come out of your experiments Joe !
ReplyDeleteYou're one lucky guy to be waiting for interesting packages ;-)
(send one of to Australia myself and waiting for the "return")
Is that me you are talking about? I hope you are not disappointed.
ReplyDeleteMy sewing room catches a lot of sun in Summer and didn't have blinds so I hung up a large piece of indigo, a futon cover. In no time at all it had a big faded patch, a lovely shade of lighter blue, but only on one side.
ah! what fun! i see i'm not the only one involved with trading fibers in australia! ha! i can hardly wait to see what is in my package...and to hear how mine was received down under! i've had terrific fun sorting through, looking for solids and tonals that would fit! it also gave me an opportunity to reacquaint myself with segments of my stash that i have quite forgotten i even had!
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i did this awhile back and could not get the knots out. it seems when knotting wet cloth that can really be difficult. keep us posted.
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