Unfortunately, all good things come to an end and it's time to wrap up quilt camp for another year. Sue will be leaving Monday so it will be up to Elizabeth to carry on as she remains in NH through mid-October. Here are some photos that kind of sum up what we have accomplished in the last 2 weeks.
On the left is Elizabeth's set of yardage she dyed. On the right are pieces that were first printed with color magnet and then dyed. The lighter pieces are some that were in dye a few days old that was pretty well spent.
Sue's dyed and discharged pieces are on the left, her mostly solids on the right.
Above are some color magnet pieces, and below, some that were printed with thickened dye.
Sue dyed a T-shirt with black cherry dye; it's taken a few days to get through the wash out process.
The two pieces below are failed sun prints that were salvaged by adding other types of printing - wooden block prints and thermofax screens. You can see a bit of the sun prints in the background.
The new technique we tried this year was wet cyan. Cyanotype is a form of sun printing, where the fabric is pre-treated with chemicals and then with exposure to sun, a blueprint of the resist item appears. Traditional cyanotype is done with dry fabric. In wet cyan, the fabric is spritzed with a soda ash solution and water before being exposed to the sun and produces more interesting backgrounds and color variation. After some initial test pieces, the second round produced better results.
Since it was our last day, we took a trip into Wolfeboro for a little shopping and of course some ice cream.
And finally, it is time to clean up the dye pots and load the car. Hope you enjoyed following along on our quilt camp adventures!
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