Alas, while Elizabeth is busy in New Hampshire, she hasn't been busy writing blog posts. However, she has been posting over on Instagram. If you use Instagram, please consider following us at #pgfiber2art. Instagram is a great platform for visual items. You can easily scroll through thousands of beautiful pictures from artists around the globe.
Her continuation of quilt camp alone is not as synergistic as camp when both of us are together, but with retirement came the extra weeks to stay at Lake Winnipesaukee and who can pass that up? Looking forward to fall colors around the lake and still enjoying the sunset views.
She has been dyeing some baby garments for her new grandson and using Color Magnet from Jacquard to give the garments some monochromatic depth. Color Magnet draws the dye to wherever it was placed and it is thick enough to be able to use with thermofax screens. Using a felt covered piece of cardboard to protect the back of the shirt, she screens a design on the shirt and then puts it in an immersion dye bath. Here are a few results, including a blue shirt with our new spiral circles screen and a series of small colorful pieces with our new Queen Anne's lace screen.
She also has been using up some very old Solar Fast which is a product brushed on the fabric and then used to make a solar print with botanicals to block out the sun. It produces a negative like effect. The color was supposed to be avocado but it is more mustard like, probably because it was old. Moral of the story is to use up your supplies and don't let them sit around. These are some maple leaves which were feasted upon by an insect.
Lastly, she also has tried some of the wet cyanotype printing using the Jacquard Cyanotype Pretreated Fabric Sheets. Soon the sun will be too low in the sky and not enough humidity to play with these last two techniques. The top photo is coleus leaves and the bottom is oak.
But until the sun starts to fade, she will squeeze as much out of the "extended" summer as she can.
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