Shibori dyeing in Two Parts

Our activity for April and May was combined by the members whose turn it was to lead.  In April, Cynda shared with us some techniques for creating shibori.   Then in May Susan had us all come over to her house for the dyeing process. 

Part I

At the April meeting, we did have some show and tell!

 Lori finished the piece she started at the landscape workshop she led, using a piece of fabric she had dyed as a focal point.  

 Lori used some new techniques for the leaves on the tree in this, to be donated at the bigfoot conference later in April. 

 Mary also finished her landscape, using a beautiful piece of lace for the trees in this moonlight piece!

Mary also finished making her face, using fussy cuts.  She is doing some very modern stitching in the background!

Cynda brought plenty of examples of shibori she has done so we could choose the techniques we wanted to try.

Martha's pieces- scrunched, folded and stitched.

Kathi did some interesting stitching.

Chris is trying out circles

everything in one piece!

Part II



On a beautiful sunny day that decided to rain during our meeting, we met to do the dyeing- using the "pig barn" instead. 

Pieces held in the dye for 5 minutes at a time

 

Oxidizing between dips in the dye

 And a few of the results!

Cynda's scrunched piece

Cynda's fabulous mandala

 Lori got very nice color on her pieces, even after rinsing.  (others weren't so lucky)























 These are Chris' before she rinsed them. 

Hopefully everyone will bring their pieces to the next meeting for show and tell.