tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537110013200461912.post7842449164072057510..comments2023-11-28T13:02:55.285-05:00Comments on fiber art and craft: golden greensSusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14833157355487053315noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537110013200461912.post-92064049242442058422015-11-19T14:58:15.327-05:002015-11-19T14:58:15.327-05:00Judy, thanks so much for your message and encourag...Judy, thanks so much for your message and encouraging words. You inspired me to post an update. I am so thrilled to know you visited here. I admire your work so much and recognize common threads of family and sense of time and making time to quilt in the midst of all that. So so good to hear from you. Looking forward to hearing about the gunnera fabrics over at your place.Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14833157355487053315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537110013200461912.post-22056835945833212902015-11-17T18:05:47.371-05:002015-11-17T18:05:47.371-05:00Hi susan
I just had a good visit through your last...Hi susan<br />I just had a good visit through your last few posts. It was so nice to see the colour quilt with the red bud tree, and the oak leaves whirling. <br />I agree with Mo that you have a sublime sense of colour and order. Lovely to see how you are able to use the traditional patterns passed down from earlier generations in such new ways with a truly contemporary feeling.<br />I dyed some silk velvet with gunnera stalks last week - a tropical plant that grows wild under the cedars here in my yard. Anxious to see what you've been working on recently.<br />xoJudy Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00619951031502775381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537110013200461912.post-31265865256098604992015-09-06T16:48:26.332-04:002015-09-06T16:48:26.332-04:00Fabulous soft early autumnal colours.Fabulous soft early autumnal colours.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537110013200461912.post-92068859899670719092015-09-06T08:53:16.193-04:002015-09-06T08:53:16.193-04:00Well, the silk definitely has its' hooks in th...Well, the silk definitely has its' hooks in the mud. Thanks, Saskia! I look forward to seeing what you do.Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14833157355487053315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537110013200461912.post-77066326203861146002015-09-06T08:26:01.450-04:002015-09-06T08:26:01.450-04:00silk is animal fabric and therefore dyes much bett...silk is animal fabric and therefore dyes much better than plant textiles, there are more 'hooks' for the dye to cling on to....here endeth the dyeing lesson, my friend who studied chemistry informed me of the 'hooks', made it easy to visualise the process in my head; your results are stunning, beautiful! am excited about getting started with mud myself, as we have an abundance of that over here!Saskiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10974723368542754165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537110013200461912.post-90193310968048663452015-09-05T10:51:51.253-04:002015-09-05T10:51:51.253-04:00Thanks for showing the results of your experiments...Thanks for showing the results of your experiments. I was so curious about what the mud would do. And I really like the different types of cloth stitched together before dyeing. Even if not much color happened on some, there is a certain underlying kinship from them being treated in the same way, taking the dye bath together. Yes--walnut! Black walnuts are starting to fall here. beth from still life pondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07670283393364949790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537110013200461912.post-776845811607810672015-09-04T15:25:11.378-04:002015-09-04T15:25:11.378-04:00Thank you, Mo. I hope to use some of these colors ...Thank you, Mo. I hope to use some of these colors to piece a base for the stitched linework that I love.Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14833157355487053315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537110013200461912.post-67450496595312601802015-09-04T15:11:37.695-04:002015-09-04T15:11:37.695-04:00your sense of colour and line is sublimeyour sense of colour and line is sublimeMo Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09004208849028911104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537110013200461912.post-23497899168038680622015-09-04T13:51:45.115-04:002015-09-04T13:51:45.115-04:00Playing in the mud. : )Playing in the mud. : )Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14833157355487053315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537110013200461912.post-6056910067795451532015-09-04T12:37:35.452-04:002015-09-04T12:37:35.452-04:00Welcome back! Your dye trials and mud painting are...Welcome back! Your dye trials and mud painting are wonderful. I will be excited to see where they take you.Danahttp://ravenandsparrow.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537110013200461912.post-60750710120461539892015-09-04T11:32:46.551-04:002015-09-04T11:32:46.551-04:00I have not tried pomegranate yet - thank you! How ...I have not tried pomegranate yet - thank you! How does one find old silk? Vintage clothing?Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14833157355487053315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537110013200461912.post-31569215073476787832015-09-04T11:18:05.476-04:002015-09-04T11:18:05.476-04:00golden greens are lovely and a great starting poin...golden greens are lovely and a great starting point for other colors too. here, i get my golden greens from a cross between my pomegranate and my indigo. the gold of the pomegranate is amazing on silk- silk is my personal favorite. especially old silk. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537110013200461912.post-32763849976633108482015-09-04T07:31:09.430-04:002015-09-04T07:31:09.430-04:00Thanks, Jude...and that's a beautiful idea for...Thanks, Jude...and that's a beautiful idea for the stitching. I don't have any silk thread so I will have to look into that. This whole silk thing is new to me, I have always been a little wary of it. This raw silk fabric has been nice to work with.Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14833157355487053315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537110013200461912.post-77625349363517684202015-09-04T07:23:56.413-04:002015-09-04T07:23:56.413-04:00beautiful!
ah, we call this cross dyeing in the te...beautiful!<br />ah, we call this cross dyeing in the textile industry, often used to get a heathered effect when two fibers are spun together in the yarn or woven one in the warp and one in the fill. you can stitch with different fibers too so you might get a variation that way too. judehttp://spiritcloth.typepad.com/spirit_cloth/noreply@blogger.com