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I'm sorry there is so few quilting pictures from me :-(, but I'm working on a large picture. All the pieces are in place now and tomorrow I will put both the piecture and my sewingmachine in the car. We will spend the next week at Gålå - up in the Norwegian mountains. Absolutely one of my favorite places. Since I'm thinking of try to get the piece acepted for the European Art Quilt Foundation's show next year, I will not be able to show it in my blog. They don't allow that. I hope to make some smaller pieces the next months along with finishing my project.


These two are made with the software from Chaos Pro www.chaospro.de/
This is not real Shibori, but a fun and easy technique. The fabric is just twisted in a coil and the dye is applied. This one is twisted straight, but you can very well start to twist in a corner. You get some lovely combinations too if you dye with one color, let it dry and rinse the fabric and then repeat the twisting in another direction and apply the same or another color.
This is Yanagi Shibori. It is made the same way as the Tesuji Shibori except for one thing. Before you pleat the fabric, you put little dots - random or in a pattern - with a watersoluble pen on the fabric. This makes the top point of little cones. Take this cone between your fingers and wrap around the cone with a thread. Start at the bottom and start and end with a knot. Then you fold the fabric and wrap the fabric around a rope or pipe, binding as in the Tesjui. You can decide how much white you want in the fabric by controlling the amount of dye you apply. 1.jpg)
The forth fabric in my Shibori series is a technique called Arashi. I have to admit that this is my #1 favorite. This is the technique I used for making my dress to my son's marrige. Only this time I have bound the Arashi. Det fjerde stoffet i min Shibori-serie er en teknikk som hete Arashi. Jeg må innrømme at dette er min absolutte favoritt. Jeg brukte denne teknikken når jeg laget stoffet til kjolen jeg brukte i bryllupet til sønnen vår. Men denne gangen har jeg bundet Aarashi'en.
Som du sikkert ser, så har jeg først brettet fra venstre mot høyre og så fra topp mot bunn. Så er stoffet lagt på et plastrør og bundet med tråd. Jeg begynte i et hjørne og surret med en avstand på ca 1 1/2 cm. For ca hver 15 cm setter jeg røret på bordet og trykker stoffet nedover mot bunnen av røret slik at stoffetblir presset tett sammen. Etter at alt stoffet var bundet og presset sammen, ble hele stoffet bløtlagt i vann. Deretter ruller jeg det i et håndkle for å få ut det overflødige vannet. Også denne gangen er fargen påført med en pensel. Så ble det satt bort i seks timer for at fargen skulle gjøre jobben sin før det ble bundet opp og skyllet.
Jeg liker dette stoffet kjempegodt og tror jeg vil bruke det som bakgrunn i en quilt.