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#dyeing

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New #introduction post!

I'm Alicia and I'm a fibre artist (#dyeing #handspinning #felting #needlefelting #weaving #crochet #embroidery #upcycling #sewing) with interests in #mandala #art #psychedelicart #sacredgeometry #neurographicart and #watercolors.

My family and I run a business called @Fibre2Fabric where we dye all sorts of exotic #fibre #yarn, and #fabric.

I live in the country with my partner and our 6 #cats, 3 #dogs, #snake and #crestedgecko where I enjoy my many interests. (#gardening #plants #herbalism #fungi #music #ukulele #piano #dancing #flowart #reading #writing #tarot #poetry #haiku #cozygames and I'm getting more into #opensource / #linux)

When I say flow art, I mean spinning props like #hulahoop #leviwand #puppyhammer #poi #staff #silkfans #firefans etc.

I love #languagelearning. I studied #German and #Spanish as a kid, took #Japanese in uni, and I'm currently studying #ASL #Cree #Tokipona #Spanish and #Chinese. I also dabble in #French and #Latin sometimes and I'm learning #Greggshorthand to write faster. Cree is my favourite language and Spanish is my second.

I've been cursed since childhood with that lovely trifecta of #heds #pots and #mcas. Healing slowly but surely.

Hope I get to meet even more cool people the algorithms would normally drown out on other social media sites. I love it here!

A person with long brown hair with blonde tips. They are wearing a purple and black hat, rainbow glasses with gold rims and have multicolored metal snakebite piercings. They are smiling. They are wearing a black, purple, and white top.
#intro#yeg#edmonton
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Kake

I dyed a t-shirt for bob using low-water immersion after tying it in little bunches with water-soluble thread. The idea of using the water-soluble thread was to avoid white marks — I wanted it to just be “different” in some way in the tied parts, but not to block the dye completely. (Also I didn’t want to have to untie it all afterwards.)

The low-water immersion worked nicely to split out the constituent red (magenta) and blue (cobalt blue) parts of the dye, giving lots of different purples, and the little tied bunches ended up looking like cells or neurons (according to bob).

Photos here of the tied t-shirt before going in the dye bath, plus a close-up and not-close-up of the results. bob has a photo of him wearing it which no doubt he will post in this thread at some point.

A white cotton t-shirt tied up in little bunches, looking a bit like closely-spaced bantu knots, or maybe like the fleece of a toy sheep. It’s sitting on a cutting mat with metric markings showing that its size has shrunk considerably from the pre-tying state.
The same t-shirt after dyeing with a custom-mixed purple dye. The little tied knots have transformed into wobbly circles with pale circumferences and darker centres. The dye has split (as was intended) giving a variegation of different shades of purple.
A close-up of the dyed t-shirt, showing how the variegation follows the crinkles that were formed when the t-shirt was tied.
#Dyeing#Textiles
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Petra van Cronenburg

Making a mess in the kitchen. I normally dye outside in summer. But I finally want to work with these fabric strips that are too white for the project. So far, I've only dyed paper with this mixture (for days in the sun). I'm curious to see if it will work.

Tip: If you have tea too old to drink, they give a great dye for most papers and natural textiles!

A look inside a white bowl: white strips of fabric float in a cherry-red solution of concentrated old mallow and hibiscus tea. Some blue mallow flowers swim on the surface.
#Dyeing#EcoDye#Plantdye
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Karen Strickholm

@ladylambs Hi Ana, and welcome! Love your mitts and love your kitty cat. Mastodon is a cool place in many ways - no advertising, no algorithms, no corporate overlords. Your experience here will be shaped by who you follow, and by the hashtags you use and follow. Here are a bunch of fiber arts ones, to get you going! 😊🧶😊

#Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator #Crochet #Weaving #Dyeing #Spinning #HandSpinning #Embroidery #Felting #Crafts #HandMade

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Karen Strickholm

@asta Hi there, I do! Suggest following bunch of relevant tags. Follow people who post with those tags - you can always unfollow later. Also, once a day I check out all posts on #Knitting and follow anyone new to me there, like you. 😊 This is how you curate your feed here. Have fun! Here are a bunch of tags to check out...

#Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator #Crochet #Weaving #Dyeing #Spinning #HandSpinning #Embroidery #Felting #Crafts #HandMade

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Kake

The in-progress photos of my hand-dyed patchwork that I previously put on Mastodon are no longer available here since strangeobject.space was shut down, and I have some new ones proving that I did in fact actually finish making them into a cushion cover, so here they are. (This is just one cushion cover — it’s different on each side.)

A square cushion cover patchworked together from hand-dyed marble-effect fabrics in shades of purples and pinks. The colours radiate out in a chronologically-dyed diamond arrangement from a bright pink at the centre that was a totally failed attempt to get a nice purple, through various other pinks and a blue (the result of overshooting) and finally a lovely true purple in the corners that mostly isn’t visible on this side of the cushion.
More patchwork using five of the colours from the previous photo, this time arranged as a fat four-pointed star on top of an offset thin four-pointed star. The lovely best perfect purple is much more visible here because it’s the background behind the stars. The points of the different pieces of fabric are matched up very nicely and Kake is very proud of them. Also there are octagonal quilting lines on top of the stars, again with the points matching up nicely, and Kake is equally proud of that part too.
#Dyeing#Patchwork#Quilting
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