During a truly expensive trip to Dharma Trading Company last week, I had the pure joy of leafing through their entire book collection. One of my discoveries was Color by Design, by Ann Johnston. I had seen her book for sale on Amazon, but because I already had Color by Accident and found it too basic/simplistic for [...]
I spent a good chunk of yesterday going through various fashion books and my study group samples, looking for ideas. Fortunately the Fine Threads study group is pretty big, so in just three years of membership I had over a hundred samples to peruse! And then I have started collecting fashion books and clipping pictures [...]
The title/theme for my next piece hit me this afternoon on the way back from the quilt show: Phoenix Rising. It all started at the Voices in Cloth 2012 quilt show, when I stopped to chat with the fine folks at Golden Thread Silks, who specialize in handwoven fabrics from Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. They had [...]
I’m not quite sure where the last two days went – it seems like I should have accomplished more, considering how hard I’ve been working! But I have set up, labeled, and dyed my samples for discharge tests, covering 22 dyes: ten colors of Cibacron F (the eight “pure” colors plus two mixes) and twelve [...]
Fifteen yards of cotton fabric arrived yesterday, along with some opaque textile paints and a few more T-shirts. I’ve been meditating on what to do next. Now that the practical considerations (new clothes + quilting fabric) are taken care of, I think I’m going to do a more serious study of surface design techniques and [...]
