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Spinner Art using a Turntable

By: Lynda July 19, 2018August 10, 2018

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Let’s now change gears a bit and make spinner art using a turntable.

Spinner Art with Soy Wax and Thickened Dye

By: Lynda July 15, 2018August 10, 2018

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I absolutely love playing with soy wax. Today we’re talking about using the Hasbro Spin-Art machine with soy wax and thickened dye.

Spinner Art with Color Magnet

By: Lynda July 12, 2018August 10, 2018

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Today I’m on to using my spinner with Jacquard Color Magnet.

Spinner Art with Glue and Spray Dye

By: Lynda July 7, 2018August 10, 2018

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In the first of the Spinner Art series I used glue as a resist and low immersion dyed. In this post I’m talking about using the glue, but spraying the dye on the fabric.

Spinner Art with Thickened Dye

By: Lynda July 4, 2018August 11, 2018

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In my last post I showed spinner art with glue as a resist and low immersion dyeing once the glue was dry. In this post, we are going to use the dye in the spinner without a resist.

Spinner Art Revisited

By: Lynda July 1, 2018August 10, 2018

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In 2012 I wrote an article on Spinner Art for the June/July issue of Quilting Arts magazine. I also wrote a blog post Here and recorded a video using Sharpies Here.

Back to the 60s: Tie Dyeing

By: Lynda June 14, 2018June 17, 2018

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As most of you who’ve followed my blog, you know I love to dye fabric. However, of that dyeing, I rarely tie dye although often people will mistake my ice dyeing for that craft. However, this past week I’ve been knee deep in tie dyeing for a local Pride service. Here are a few bandanas…

Muck Dyes Visited

By: Lynda May 8, 2018May 12, 2018

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If you are a customer of Dharma Trading, you will see from time-to-time muck dyes for sale. Muck dyes are dyes that they make in limited quantities and can’t be reproduced. They are CHEAP! For these I paid between $4.50 and $5 for 8 oz. Usually these fiber reactive dyes run, depending on color, between…

Dyeing White-on-White

By: Lynda January 23, 2018

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Even though I’ve been busy with re-entry from vacation, I took time to dye some strips of the white-on-white fabric. I was really happy with the results, and now to decide what colors I’m going to use on these. All of these are 100% cotton except the first piece. For some reason the fuchsia pieces…