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Dyeing Dawn’s Dyes

By: Lynda March 24, 2019December 30, 2019

dyeing, low immersion, tutorialsfiber reactive dyes, old dyes, testing old dyes, tutorial15 Comments

I am such a lucky duck! My friend Dawn gave me these old dyes recently. So today I’m showing you my results with dyeing Dawn’s dyes.

How to: Fabric Badges

By: Lynda March 10, 2019March 24, 2019

fabric, fabric scraps, Free Motion, Free-motion, hand stitching, Sewing, tutorialsCircle Sew Simple, fabric badges, fabric tutorial, Nancy Zieman, tutorial8 Comments

I have a new obsession – fabric badges.

Soy Wax Batik and Fashion Spray

By: Lynda February 10, 2019February 22, 2019

recycling, soy wax, tutorialsMarabu Fashion Sprays, recycled clothing, soy wax, soy wax batik, tutorial, upcycling8 Comments

Today I wanted to show your my results with soy wax and Marabu Fashion Spray. In the past I’ve used Jacquard Dye-Na-Flow and fiber reactive dyes with this technique (and they work great!), but I wanted to see how well these sprays would hold up. If you’d like to see how I used these sprays…

Lacy Leaves

By: Lynda January 29, 2019February 1, 2019

eco printing, Fabric paint, organic embroidery, Sewing, tutorialslace, lacy leaves, leaf printing, Organic Embroidery, sewing, tutorial, water soluble stabilizer8 Comments

I’m a bit obsessed with leaves and trying out different techniques, and today it’s making lacy leaves. I found this book recently which encouraged me to try this techniques with leaves. Her work is lovely and pretty amazing. To make these leaves we are stitching on water soluble stabilizer. This is Vilene, a heavier stabilizer…

How To: Printing fabric using stencils as printing plates

By: Lynda January 4, 2019January 28, 2019

Fabric paint, spray paints, stencils, tutorialsjoggles, Marabu Fashion Sprays, stencil printing, stencils, tutorial6 Comments

In my last post I printed on tags using stencils as printing plates. Today we are printing on fabric. I’m again using Joggles 9 x 12 stencils.

Best of 2018 Tutorials

By: Lynda December 26, 2018December 27, 2018

tutorials, year end reviewBest of 2018, end of year review, tutorials14 Comments

As we end another year, I am again looking back on my best of 2018 tutorials. If you missed them, the links are at the top of each picture. I pretty much went wild with my spin art machine and turntable this year, and wrote several tutorials on using that machine. It was so much…

Scrappy Scarf

By: Lynda November 29, 2018December 10, 2018

fabric scraps, Sewing, tutorialsfabric scraps, fabric tutorial, scrappy scarf, sewing, tutorial4 Comments

Years ago I tried this scrappy scarf technique. Back then I had very little fabric and ended up using threads, ribbons, and yarns to make a small piece of fabric. Now that I have lots of fabric scraps, I wanted to make a regular size scarf! It starts with a water soluble stablizer (I used…

Spray Painting Layers

By: Lynda November 15, 2018November 21, 2018

cats, Fabric paint, Fabric Resists, spray paints, stencils, surface design, teaching, tutorialslayers, spray paints, stencils, teaching, tutorials17 Comments

For my last class we are spray painting layers. I introduced spraying, but my main goal was to encourage and embrace layering. Sometimes it’s hard to push through to the next layer. Sometimes it doesn’t work out, but more often than not, you will like your results and you will learn from the process. I…

How to: Dendritic Mono Printing

By: Lynda September 6, 2018September 22, 2018

Fabric paint, mono printing, tutorialsdendritic printing, Fabric Paint, Jacquard Fabric Paints, mono printing15 Comments

I happened across Dendritic mono printing on paper awhile back and decided to try it on fabric. If you’re not familiar with the word dendritic, it means having a branched form resembling a tree. This is really an easy technique that provides backgrounds that look like branches. Here is how it’s done. I start with…