Some ice dyeing!

After a couple of years away it was fun to be ice dyeing again. The best part is that I don't have to iron these fabrics and take beauty photos! I can just slide by with the lazy photos that I'm going to post for you today. I decided to ice dye again because I wanted to make a colorful backing for the houses quilt top that I made a couple of months ago. I sort of wish that this one had more purple in it but once the ice is on you never really know where the dye is going. I like the patterning and I really like having the white spaces in this one.

But I couldn't dye just one thing. In for a penny, in for a pound.

I dyed some fabric, t-shirts and tea towels. Both of these were gravity dyed. I'm not going to explain any of the methods that I used. There are lots of YouTube videos and that's where I first saw these things. The shirt on the left is one of my all time favorite things and I'll do more of this. The one on the right didn't work as well but I can screen print something on this and I think it will be cool for a kid.

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These were all incline dyed and that tea towel is AWESOME.

I think incline dyeing is pretty self-explanatory. My set up wasn't optimal. I have some better ideas for the next time. I like the mandala piece. The t-shirt will benefit from a strong screen printed image.

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This is a really cool folding technique called "glitch". I really like this and I like all three pieces. I need a little more practice folding and tying but I'm pleased with these first results. 
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This is a technique where you punch the fabric through a grid. The shirt actually looks better in person. I really like it. I need to work on the color placement a little better next time.

I have 4 more 40" square tapestries. The one on the lower right will be cut up in a project. The others are all winners. I think the one on the lower left will be the focus of my next Groovy quilt.
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Here are 4 tea towels. The one on the top left will certainly get something printed on it. The others are good as they are and that lower right one is a big winner!
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These are all small blocks, about 13" square. I don't know why I included that tea towel again. But the small pieces are mostly used in the Groovy quilts. These are always a crap shoot because the pieces are so small and you never know where the dye will fall.

For now, all of these are put away. Today I pick up Ella for our 3-day craft camp. I'll share photos of the projects that we work on.