I’ve sampled all but two of the 24 Inktense color blocks (choosing to forego two of the three black blocks for now). Each sample swatch has one color combined with the remaining 23 colors. The first swatch in the upper left corner is white combined with every other color. By comparison, the last swatch in the lower right corner is every color by itself …
The swatches above have not yet been rinsed and ironed. Instead, I decided to test out hand-rinsing the Inktense on scraps that were painted with the leftovers from the sampling process. Here’s what they looked like after rinsing and ironing …
The old pillowcase that I put on the ironing board tells the tale: the dyes ran, but not as badly as I feared. And no great surprise, the darks, reds, and yellows were the worst offenders …
Here’s a closer look, arranged by the “What if I wet the cloth and let the Inktense bleed?” trials …
Close up outlined with a Pitt pen
The “What if I paint blocks of color with leftover dye?” trials …
And the “What if I try to freehand stripes?” trials …
Gotta love “What if … ?”
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(((Liz))) you are having a lot of fun with this!
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my needles are getting lonely … time to start making a little book out of those swatches
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LA – This is an amazing experiment – so good to share – I’m sure a lot of fabric folk will want to take up some of this. I particularly liked the fact that you methodically combined the inks. Where to with this – maybe a little blurb book? Cheers. B
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don’t know about a Blurb book, but definitely a swatch book …
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Gotta love this! You’re designing fabric 🙂
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in miniature … working on the same scale as your CMBs …
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That really is an amazing undertaking & you’ve accomplished beautiful results. You inspire me. I will look forward to hearing about Mary Ruth’s class & catching up next month.
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well, there’s definitely a stack of stuff that didn’t make the cut …
hope you’re having great weather in Santa Fe … have fun!
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I see what you did there! Soooooo many interesting outcomes and combinations – and it looks like a heap of fun!
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I’m learning … it’s especially fun when two colors that I never would have thought to pair end up creating a beautiful third
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Once you get a handle on this, you could order fabric from Spoonflower. So fun to watch your process.
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interesting thought … that might solve the problem with bleeding (where it isn’t wanted/needed) … hmmm
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I like how the ‘leftover trials’ look like bricks.
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so glad you saw that … our neighborhood has many brick houses (ours included) and I envision these brick forms getting used somehow
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Catching up…so fun to see your experiments and looking forward to seeing where it goes. Sometimes, I kind of like it when things bleed. 🙂
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I quite agree … shibori comes to mind for sure
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Bravo on the “What If’s!” I know you like to venture out-of-the-box.
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I don’t think I’ll ever settle into a single way of going … at least, not for a long while
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