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Ice Dyeing Old Dyes

By: Lynda May 6, 2019May 12, 2019

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I showed you recently the results of low immersion dyeing using Dawn’s old dyes. If you missed it, here is the post. I wanted to see how they would ice dye. I only picked those colors that would split. Every one of the dyes pretty much split as expected except, again, the Royal Blue was…

Dyeing cotton vs 50/50

By: Lynda April 30, 2019May 6, 2019

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I really like dyeing t-shirts for Dave. He knows to buy 100% cotton ones since fiber reactive dyes are made to work on natural fibers. Well, he’s been taken lately with 50/50 shirts.

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…