Day 5 - Studio Play

Sunday was a day to rinse and launder a bunch of dyed fabric, but it was also "play in the studio" day.  We each went in several directions.  We mixed up 3 colors of thickened dye.  Elizabeth painted this piece with red, yellow and blue, allowing the colors to overlap and mix.  It still needs to be rinsed and washed to get out the excess dye.

She also spent some time adding texture to fabric using a gelli plate and various objects for the texture. 

One was bubble wrap.

She also used textured pieces of foam.

You can buy commercial gelli plates but Elizabeth opted to make her own with gelatin.

Here's a wavy texture printed on a light purple fabric.

Sue printed a few pieces of fabric with color magnet, which is a dye attractant.  When the fabric is dyed more dye is drawn to the printed parts so you end up with a two-tone fabric.

She also painted backgrounds on some small pieces.  This is the first layer of several.

And since the sun was shining, it was a good day for sun printing.  These are the two pieces she printed with natural objects.

Come back tomorrow to see what else we are doing!

Quilt Camp, Day 3, 4, 5

Catching up on our last 3 days, we've spent some time on the business aspects of PGFiber2Art - blog, Facebook, newsletter, and listing new screens in the Etsy shop - and have tried to get back into the creative side of things.  So we don't have quite as much fun stuff to share as we'd like, but here's a glimpse of what we've been up to.

Elizabeth has been busy dyeing - both tie dyeing and ice dyeing.

She also did a sun print with some ferns and Queen Ann's lace.

Sue started off with some gelli plate printing.

And screen printing to test some screens.

She put together a nine-patch to show off some new screens we've added to the Etsy shop (more in another post).

And has also being experimenting with deColourant discharge which takes color out of fabric.

Wednesday we made a trip to Center Harbor and Keepsake Quilting, so that took time away from the "studio".

What else is in store?  More dyeing, of course.  The indigo pot is on the agenda for Friday.  Thursday we are taking a day trip to Lowell, Mass, to the New England Quilt Museum to see the Threads of Resistance exhibit.  Stay tuned for more of our daily quilt camp adventures.