A good friend has asked me to create a new multi-color fabric palette of some very specific blues, greens and ochre. She wanted it quite dark and muddy, with lots of blue. Here’s the first test: This was too muddy with not enough blue for her, so I removed the dark grey and added a… Continue Reading
The ever awesome web designer Mary is getting married next month!! She asked me to create a custom color palette of light silver and light peach, and then dye 7 silk charmeuse stoles for her bridesmaids and mothers, plus some silver silk ribbon to wrap around the bouquets. Here’s one of the stoles, they all… Continue Reading
Well, I finished the indigo dyed fabric I made with other day using a glue resist technique for some mudcloth inspired designs: My client wanted the fabric dyed really darkly, so I dipped every hour or so all day from about 9 AM to 6 pm! I’m really happy with them – and my client… Continue Reading
One of my awesome customers is a Packers fan, so she dropped by earlier this summer to talk about me dyeing a couple of silk scarves and some cotton sateen for a Zip & Go bag for her to wear and carry things at a Packers game. If you don’t know, the Packers colors are… Continue Reading
Yahoo! I got 8 Jester Stockings completed in time for my clients to give them as presents! Hooray! What I didn’t have time for was anything but a few quick iPhone snaps: What’s most important is my customers are happy and now it’s time for Christmas Cookie Baking!!!!!!!!!! Continue Reading
A couple months ago I was contacted by Barbara and Sam, 2 women making really lovely fused dichroic glass jewelry, they call their company O3M Designs (Out Of Our Minds Designs!) They were getting ready to sell their jewelry at shows and wanted my to dye the largest square silk scarves I could in three different… Continue Reading
Last month at the last show I did, I had a customer look at my cotton sateen zip clutches and asked if I could make something similar for her to hold her very large sunglasses. We determined that the bag needed to have a gusseted base in order to be big enough for the glasses.… Continue Reading
I was able to get 2 commissions done last week! The first was a set of 3 large, square, charmeuse scarves for 3 fused glass artists who want to use these on their tables to help display their jewelry. They picked 3 of my hand dyed silk scarf palettes and asked me to dye the… Continue Reading