Returning to my rainbow of dyed fabric and how I could use a good number of them in a textile as mentioned in the post before last has confirmed in my mind that I would like to make a wall hanging.
I love colour, I have always loved colour. Colour is one of my strengths ............ more so than composition. As a child I was fascinated by rainbows - what child isn;t? A rainbow piece it is then albeit with artistic license as I will probably have 9 colours.
My passion for textiles goes back to childhood and there have been lots of significant points along the way. If I made a crazy quilt wall hanging it would give me scope to portray many of these in some form ................. I think this piece will be "My Crazy Journey".
I think the colours are sorted so need to play around with size & proportion. Meanwhile, something that I've been meaning to do for ages .............. dyeing some buttons
I have some lovely yellow buttons. It's unfortunate that the pearlised coating on the large floral one is chipped now it's a wonderful golden colour - unfortunately the underlying materidal didn't take the dye. This was an experiment - not without incident so not a method I will be recommending and I will do it differently next time.
2 comments:
The pearlized one does look rather special!
Dying buttons - never thought of that one!
..I've never thought of dying buttons either...
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