I have done a lot of dyeing lately. It's a real passion to see the fabric turn from white to a wide range of beautiful, vibrant colors. This triangle contsist of 66 different colors with yellow, red and blue in the three corners. All the other colors are a gradiation of the first and last color in the row, both from side to side and top to bottom. It gave a lot of greens, browns and purples in variations. All the colors are mixed only with yellow, red and blue. The picture is not very good, but I am going to take a picture of each color. I hope to add a web shop to my web site next year with a collection of hand-dyed fabric for sale. This is only the first step.
Jeg har farget en hel del i det siste. Det er blitt en lidenskap å se stoffet forvandles fra hvitt til en hel masse vakre, vibrerende farger. Triangelet består av 66 farger med gul, rød og blå i hvert sitt hjørne. Alle de andre er en gradering av den første og siste fargen i hver rad både vannrett og loddrett. Resultatet var masse grønne, brune og lilla varianter. Alle fargene er blandet fra kun gult, rødt og blått. Bildet er ikke særlig godt, men jeg planlegger å ta bilde av hvert enkelt stoff. Jeg håper å kunne tilføye en nettbutikk til hjemmesiden min etter nyttår med en serie håndfargede stoffer for salg. Dette er bare første trinn.
I have spent the last three weeks creating a new web-site. I could not find a template I wanted to use, so I have built it from scratch. I made one with some bluegreen pattern first, but I think the colors stole a lot of attention from the pictures. So I removed all the backgrounds except for a narrow stripe from my peacock painting and I am much more pleased with this version.
Some days ago, a letter dumped down in my mailbox. It was a letter I had been waiting for. Inside I could read: "We are pleased to tell you that "Swan Lake" has been selected to be judged in the quilt competition at the Pacific International Quilt Festival and will hang on display during the Festival from October 16-19 2008". So now the "Swan" is going on a long journey from Norway to Santa Clara, California. It is my first judged show, so I'm thrilled!
Here is the newly married couple outside the church
Mina was adorable!
The bride's flowers were so beautiful. It was made by a friend of one of our daughters. She's the best and has been a Norwegian champion in flower arranging several times.
This is how yhe table was decorated. Our daughter did this early Saturday morning.
The wedding cake was spectacular! The couple LOVES chocolate cake, so the wedding cake had to be made of chocolate!
Her is a picture of me and my son quite late in the evening
This is the card I made for the wedding of my son and his wife. It's made of silk satin and some ribbons. The letters are sewed with my machine in silver thread.
This is the back of the card. I free motion quilted it with a shiny rayon thread. Loops and hearts was a natural choice.
Dette er baksiden på kortet. Det er frihåndsquiltet med en blank rayontråd. Løkker og hjerter var et naturlig valg.
This is what it looks like inside. I'll try to translate the poem:Not too close - no, not too close - then we shadow for each other - we want to live in the sun
but not too far away - because our branches must be able to stroke eachother -
in the evening breeze
and in the deep nights - we want to feel the slow breathing of the other
in time with the stars and the clouds that slowly drift away
and in the first glitter of morning
I want to hear your leaves rustle near me
not too close - then we nourish from the same soil
and we never can get great
but so close together - that we can touch each other when we are lonely
and fall close to each other in the end
Dette er hvordan kortet ser ut inni. Det har et dikt av Egil Ulateig som heter Ikke for nær.
Here is what I used with my dress. The bag is made from the same velvet as my dress. The gold outlines on the shawl don't show up, but goes well with my golden shoes.dette er tilbehøret til kjolen min. Veska er sydd av samme fløyel som kjole. Konturene på skjerfet er malt i gull, men synes dårlig på bildet. Det passet godt sammen med gullskoene.
Here is the flowers painted. The pattern is not my own. It's a free stained glass pattern from stainedglass.co.uk. There is a lot of nice free patterns out there. But the choise of colors are mine. When I used dye on silk, I used a gutta resist I've baught in a craft shop here and I had a lot of trouble with the dye bleeding outside the lines. This time I used Jaquard waterbased gutta and it was so good to work with and oney one tiny bleeding. For the flowers I wet the silk with alcohol/water first. but the leaves are painted on dry silk.Her er blomstene malt. Det er ikke mitt eget mønster, men et gratis mønster fra stainedglass.co.uk. Det ligger masse flotte gratis mønster ute på nett. Valget av farger er mitt eget. Når jeg brukte farge til å male på silke så brukte jeg en gutta jeg hadde kjøpt i en hobbyforretning her og hadde masse problemer med at fargen blødde utenfor linjene. Denne gangen brukte jeg en vannbasert gutta fra Jaquard and den var kjempeflott å jobbe med og bare en liten blødning.
I choosed a background color that is quite similar to the flowers so I wanted to give it some pattern. First I wet the silk with alcohol/water and painted it in a brown color. The I dripped alcohol on top. It gave some pattern, but not as much as I wanted so I spred some Jaquard silk salt on top. Here you can see the salt has start to work.Jeg valgte en bakgrunnsfarge som er ganske lik fargen på blomstene så jeg ønsket en del mønster her. Jeg fuktet først silken med sprit/vann og malete den i en brun farge. Så dryppet jeg sprit på toppen. Det laget noe mønster, men ikke så mye som jeg ønsket så jeg strødde Jaquard silkesalt over. Her kan du se saltet har begynt å virke.
Here is a closeup after the salt has worked for a while.Her er et nærbilde etter at saltet har virket en stund.
This is how it looks after it's dried and the salt is removed. It is also heat set with the iron. Now it have to stay untouched for 48 hours before I wash out the gutta line. I plan to do all the contours with a gold paint. I will have gold shoes, so I think that will be nice. I will post a photo when it's done.
# 2
"Night Watch" by Olga Ovsynnikova, Moscow, Russia
# 3"Hostas after the Shower" by Patricia Collinson, Bideford
This one is just beautiful. It was first dyed with yellow and then overdyed with purple. There is so much wicking here and so many different colors. This is the nice thing with Shibori dyeing - you never know how it will look before you open it. This one will also get some additinal prints and be quilted.
Here the fabric is pleated in a random way and the sewed over the pleats. Dyed with purple and left to dry completely before rinsing. A lot of WOW's here this week!
This is how the piece above looked after dyeing and before the threads were removed. I did som free motion both with normal stiches and zik zak.
This is the front. Slightly wider at the bottom.
The dogs wanted to be in the picture, too, so here they are. Emma to the left and Pippi to the right.
