Last week, I showed you some results from my first experience dyeing Radiance, a 50/50 cotton/silk blend. I have a client who is making a stole for her pastor, inspired by the stained glass in their church. She wanted deep, glistening colors, similar to the colors in the glass, and a light green background color,…
Are you familiar with Radiance? It’s a fabric that is 50% silk and 50% cotton, and Kaufman now makes a PFD version of it. I’ve got a customer who wants some bright silky fabric, but was worried that working with 100% silk would be too difficult, as she’s working with some very small pieces. I…
Someone emailed me about a month ago, asking if I could dye an ikea footstool cover…turquoise and orange. I’ve dyed Ikea slipcovers before, but only a single color. This is the footstool cover she sent me: it’s for their “Ektorp” line, and is 100% cotton, and comes in two pieces. The two pieces makes it…
I finished up and delivered some custom dyed skirts and shirt last week. I think they look splendid, and have GOT to make an Aurora dyed skirt ASAP!
Long term blog readers will remember that I spent a day at the First Presbyterian Church of San Bernardino last spring. They received a grant that allows them to bring in an artist for a day to help the parishioners create something to use in their worship. They have a tall sanctuary and a vision of 20 yard swaths of…
Well, I had such a fun day on Sunday! I gave a private dyeing lesson to Laine, a quilter who’s done some indigo dyeing before, and her friend Nina who is new to the world of fabric in general, and had never given any thought to fabric dyeing before. They arrived at my house Sunday…
I’ve got a lot to do, and not a lot of time to do it! I thought I’d share some fabric in need of ironing with you…anybody want to come iron?
So, I was doing some dyeing yesterday: and I was very surprised by the color of the chartreuse (top right), it looks waaaaay to dark, and the plum (bottom middle) looks a bit brown. No matter how many times I do this, I still need to remind myself that, with dyeing, what you see in…
I had a lot of fun writing up a beginning fabric dyeing tutorial for the folks at Sew Mama Sew, it covers probably the first type of dyeing a beginning dyer should do…making tints of a primary color. I had lot of fun folding, stacking and snapping pix of the finished product: But I ALSO…
I’ve been searching for a source of organic fabric that’s been prepared-for-dyeing (PFD) and takes Procion MX fiber reactive dyes well. Last fall I came up with 2 strong hues, a teal and an orange, that I mix from primary colors to test a fabrics ability to really absorb the dye and have an intense…
My name is Candy Glendening...and I’m addicted to color! I dye fabric so I can have just the hue & texture I want, and then use it to make art quilts and “everyday art”.
My name is Candy Glendening,and I’m addicted to color! I dye fabric so I can have just the hue & texture I want, and then use it to make art quilts and “everyday art”.
