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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.

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…

How to: Flour Resist with Paint

By: Lynda August 30, 2018September 6, 2018

Fabric paint, Fabric Resists, tutorialsFabric Paint, flour resist, resists, tutorial6 Comments

In this post I’m talking about flour resist with paint. Most of the steps are the same as with dye except there is no fabric prep. Please check out this post for step-by-step instructions. Add a little water to your fabric paint. After crunching the dry flour paste covered fabric, paint over it. Here is…

How To: Flour Resist with Dye

By: Lynda August 26, 2018August 31, 2018

Fabric Resists, tutorialsflour resist, resists, tutorial14 Comments

While cleaning up the website I ran across an old post on oatmeal resist. I wasn’t real happy with the results, but wanted to try again using flour resist with dye.