Dye lot
Memo to self: The background blue for my quilt is 10 parts cyan to one part magenta, at full undiluted strength.
Which brings me to my latest project, a hand-dyed and painted quilt for my bed that I've been working on since Christmas. It's going to have have 15 squares with Chinese-style designs on them--phoenixes, dragons, cranes, peonies, chrysanthemums, fish, etc.--arranged alternately with plain squares. The background around the designs and for the plain squares is the aforementioned blue, which is more or less a royal blue.
So far I have two squares completed except for the background, and three squares outlined but not dyed. The outlines are painted on with Lumiere fabric paint in metallic gold, and then the insides dyed with Jacquard Green Label silk dye. The fabric is 30 momme crepe-back silk satin. The Lumiere paint is supposed to be acting as a dye resist, but it allows bleed through, so I'm starching the hell out of the fabric to slow the dye. The weave of the satin seems to make any kind of resist less effective.
The two completed squares are orange butterflies with red spider mums (god only knows what color the red will turn out after fixing--I have yet to manage a true red--but it should be pretty regardless) and white cranes with green pine trees.
Which brings me to my latest project, a hand-dyed and painted quilt for my bed that I've been working on since Christmas. It's going to have have 15 squares with Chinese-style designs on them--phoenixes, dragons, cranes, peonies, chrysanthemums, fish, etc.--arranged alternately with plain squares. The background around the designs and for the plain squares is the aforementioned blue, which is more or less a royal blue.
So far I have two squares completed except for the background, and three squares outlined but not dyed. The outlines are painted on with Lumiere fabric paint in metallic gold, and then the insides dyed with Jacquard Green Label silk dye. The fabric is 30 momme crepe-back silk satin. The Lumiere paint is supposed to be acting as a dye resist, but it allows bleed through, so I'm starching the hell out of the fabric to slow the dye. The weave of the satin seems to make any kind of resist less effective.
The two completed squares are orange butterflies with red spider mums (god only knows what color the red will turn out after fixing--I have yet to manage a true red--but it should be pretty regardless) and white cranes with green pine trees.