Two years ago, I bought three dying kits. The colors were gradated from one color to another. Beautiful colors according to the samples. Last summer, I finally bought the fabric and decided to dye the fabric. I hadn’t read the instructions before and found that the amount of dye powder was for fat 16ths. I would have lots of colors, but only small pieces of each.
I waited until summer to dye as I only dye fabric in the back yard now. Previously when dyeing fabric, I dyed on a TV tray in the bathtub in the bathroom. One time I was dyeing yellow fabric and it spilled everywhere. It did not come off and didn’t look very good.
The dyeing process took four days as there was wait time between dyeing, rinsing, drying and pressing the pieces. It took me a good part of the day to measure the dye powder and process all three boxes. There were recipes for each color. Amounts of the dye were increased or decreased in each baggie to make the color gradation. That was the first day.
The second day was rinse day. By the end of the day the rubber gloves were off. They were too much bother. I was drenched from head to toe. Each piece needed several rinses until the water ran clear. I had marked each fabric so that I would know where they belonged in the gradation and with which batch.
The third day was easy. The fabric just dried by itself. Then after it dried, I ironed each small piece. That took most of another day. Now that that project is finished, I am glad that I did it. The fabric is beautiful. The next time I have the desire to dye fabric, I will only use one box.
These fabrics were made from left over dye.
Now, I just have to find a pattern to make something with the dyed fabric. Years ago, I dyed a lot of fabric in different patterns and had to force myself to cut it up. Then there was the summer when my daughter and I sun dyed fabric. It was beautiful. I did make a quilt for her in memory of the fun “quilt camp” week.
Have a great day and happy quilting.
Carrie made two quilts in this pattern. One had a red background and the other a beige background. This is an easy quilt, made very differently with different background fabrics.
I thought that I had enough fabric in my stash to make the background the same color, but after I cut the pieces, I found that there were two colorways of the same pattern. This made a design element, not an error. After all, it is a scrap quilt and we had to only use our stash. I machine quilted my quilt with my domestic machine
My daughter also used light fabric in her background. Although the fabric is different, it looks like the same quilt because of the value in colors. Her quilt was professionally quilted with a long arm machine.
When my youngest daughter was headed to college, I started a quilt for her. Sometime during the making of the quilt, I ended up in the hospital. I took the pieces and continued to hand piece the quilt. One of the nurses told me that I could make the quilt much faster if I sewed by machine. I told her that they didn’t allow machines in the hospital and she agreed. It did put a thought in my head and this quilt is the last one that I hand pieced. It is hand quilted though. I hadn’t gone that far in my quilt journey. 
Baby quilts are fun to make. The are small and can be pieced in a short time. My earlier baby quilts were hand quilted, but now, I machine quilt them as I expect lots of washing and drying.
The boat quilt was fun to make. It is also one of my earlier baby quilts.
Four months are finished on the temperature quilt. It’s interesting to see how the color changes as the weather becomes warmer. Each row contains the highest and lowest temperature of the day. The warmest temperature is the geese and the lowest is the sky. I’m up to date with eight geese getting ready to fly. It will take 365 days to make all the geese and then the quilting.
My mother’s Grandmothers Flower Garden quilt is showing progress. I’m sewing all the white hexagons around the bottom edge and then will decide where to place the other blocks. I’ve finished nine additional blocks and have a few more cut out in case I need them. I still haven’t decided whether I will add another row or not. This quilt is taking forever, but it is relaxing to hand sew in in the evening.
This is the fourth in the Miss Rosie Series. Carrie Nelson’s block was made in muted greens, yellows and reds. It was called Three Coins, Carrie had made the red star blocks and didn’t like the setting that she had planned, .so she set them aside. Later, she dreamed of the right setting and made “Three Coins”.
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