Yesterday was "dyeing day" but it was also cleaning day. When the cleaning lady is coming I try to at least get the piles of things off the floor so that she van vacuum the space underneath. While doing my "maid preps", as Chris calls them, I tripped over a pile of things that I dyed last week with the Crystals and Galaxies. When I ice dye I want every inch of the screen covered so I often add whatever dyeable things I can find to the mix. These are 2 sets of napkins. I had 2 boxes of thrift store napkins that a friend gave me. I still have a ton of them left but I always dye a set to go with any new set of placemats. At the moment I have a bin of dyed napkins that need placemats. Maybe my next obsessive sewing weekend can be a placemat weekend. I do use them a lot and have several that are in need of retirement. These will be fun to work with to design matching placemats. I always seem to have a bunch of aprons around and I think I've given some to all my friend and family. I heard about a charity collecting them recently so these might go there. There are some of the leftover golf towels that I dyed for my husband and his high school golf buddies in March. I'll save these in the gift closet. This is the funniest part. I dyed 3 pair of socks but I can only find a pair and a half. Hopefully the others will show up at some point. Then there were some white tshirts left from the ones that I dyed for Eli for his birthday. He'll get these too. Finally, just for me, I dyed some 12" squares. I feel a 3rd Groovy quilt coming on.
Yesterday was a very long dyeing day so in the evening I just sat and did some crochet and loom knitting and listened to a book. I have a finished crochet project and some thoughts on loom knitting that I'll probably share tomorrow. Today I might get a quilt loaded to quilt but first I have a little bit of dyeing to do for a custom order. It's a little complex so fingers crossed that I get the effect that my customer wants. This weekend is sewing weekend with my quilt club so I'll be packing up my veterans quilt sewing tomorrow morning and heading to our meeting place. Yay!
Kristin F
7/8/2021 10:56:36 am
Love all the 12 inch squares and the napkins! And everything else, but especially the napkins.
Mary Anne
7/8/2021 06:01:47 pm
Superwoman, that should be your title! I am now beyond certain that you never sleep. Never would have thought to dye socks, at least not on purpose!
Peg S.
7/8/2021 08:43:30 pm
All gorgeous, but I particularly like the aprons. What fun!
Gene Black
7/9/2021 07:44:22 am
I love all of the things you dyed - napkins, aprons, golf towels, socks, shirts, but most of all the 12" squares for the "groovy" quilt.
Kay Welch
7/9/2021 01:25:45 pm
These are all gorgeous! Comments are closed.
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I'm Vicki Welsh and I've been making things as long as I can remember. I used to be a garment maker but transitioned to quilts about 20 years ago. Currently I'm into fabric dyeing, quilting, Zentangle, fabric postcards, fused glass and mosaic. I document my adventures here. Categories
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