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!

Well, not for all…but I’ve been dying some rayon wrap skirt blanks with my scarf palettes. I originally dyed one this summer at Angie’s request, and I really liked the results. I’ve got a bunch of shows coming up, and I always like to have something new for them, so I thought I’d try to sell these:

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(RSS readers, I’ve put a gallery here, you may have to click through to my site to see these.)

I’ve got one more making weekend before my 1st show of the fall, fingers crossed I keep focused and make lots!

I had a request to dye a wraparound skirt with my Earth & Sky palette from Angie. I’ve never dyed a wrap around skirt, and she wanted it to be relatively subtle…this was a tough one. I don’t like when things get too subtle, it’s the luscious nooks & crannies of color that I crave when dyeing fabric. Add to that the fact that I wanted to avoid horizontal striping. Even when I started dyeing, I didn’t have a clear idea. But after wringing the soda ash out of the skirt my hands took over and voila!

I’m really happy with this – and when I showed Angie some pictures on Flickr she liked it too! Woot!

I’m sharing this with my pals over at AmyLouWho’s Sew n’ Tell Friday!

As I’ve been working this week, on custom bag 1, custom bag 2 and one more that’s 75% done, I’ve noticed that I’m easily distracted. I admitted that it was possible that even I needed our upcoming vacation. I’d purchased a bunch of clothing blanks months ago in hopes of prettifying my wardrobe, and I spent some time this week dyeing.

Most of the dyeing I do begins with planning and calculating how I’m gonna mix up my colors. After years of experience I know that, for me, winging it with the dyes usually doesn’t create something that has that zing I get when I look at the it. The colors I love are complex – meaning (for me) they are mixtures of 3 primary, single color dyes. What you see in the dye you mix is NOT what you get when you wash our the fabric, thus a plan is needed. But when I’m dyeing for myself, I can take some risks and change my plan on the fly (usually because I don’t have quite enough of one of my dyes mixed up and I don’t want to mix up more…) So I’ve come up with a couple of new color combos because of it and I’m really happy about it!

This teal, turquoise and gold one is a winner! WOOT! (I’ve got another new color combo that’s a present for someone, pix later…)

As I was photographing these out in my backyard yesterday morning I got excited to wear them, and I realized that this tremendously eventful school year had come to a close, we’ve come through it intact, and that we’re about to start a fantastic vacation: this is my moment this week!
alamodestuff Linda has started a weekly meetup based on taking a moment each week to really notice something as you go about your daily grind life. I need to do this. You may want to too – read more about it here:

This has been the week of small projects! Although I could look at this and think I haven’t goeen enough done…instead, I’m just happy to be getting some small things off my list! Actually, these weren’t even on my list, they’re new commissions that have cropped up and need to get in the mail!

First up, a set of freshly picked oufits made for a pair of twins:

And here’s an outfit made for an growing up baby:

Although I haven’t gotten them in MY shop yet, I have a bunch of these outfits listed on etsy, take a look!

Hope y’all have a great weekend. I’m taking my boys to Sea World tomorrow, and then plan on getting a lot accomplished on Sunday!

I’m gonna share this with some friends over at Amy’s Sew & Tell!