Impatience

~ Liz A ~ 27 Comments

So I peeked last night …

Unfortunately, the center of the Inktense Shibori spiral wasn’t as defined as I had hoped. And because I unwrapped the cloth while it was still damp, a lot of the color washed out …

But I learned from that (which was the whole point). Then tried again, this time stitching with doubled thread, taking more process shots along the way …

I used just one color: Payne’s gray (or is it grey?) … which I love. But as it dried the gray began to look too uniform, so I mixed up a bit more and touched it onto the still-damp cloth.

Once again unable to wait any longer, I unbundled it this morning …

and methinks it made through washing and ironing just fine …

So now I’m pondering how best to work with complementary colors without muddling them together (the key word being “mud”). However, those trials will have to wait until we get back from our sojourn in New Mexico. For sure I’ll be looking for lots of inspiration while there.

Addenda: Shibori trials so far (for scale, the Inktense book is 2” x 3”)

And this is for Nancy …

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This time I remembered gloves and actually took (some) process shots of the latest Shibori trial. After stitching a double spiral on white linen (sigh, no pictures of that), I soaked the resulting bundle in plain water and wrung it out …

Next I chose a purple page in the swatch book and puddled a handful of colors …

then smooshed them together (a very technical description of my modus operandi) …

At which point things got too messy for photography, but suffice it to say I dabbled the various colors rather randomly onto the damp linen, then set it out in the Texas sun to dry …

I’ll post the results tomorrow. Meantime, here’s a picture of our littlest boo (and yes, at 90 degrees it’s still barefoot-in-bathing-suit weather in Texas) …

with her new best buddy Skelligan …