hand-dye

I pieced the back as well, from two pieces of hand-dyes - one of which was long enough but not wide enough, so I inserted a narrowish strip of a different hand-dye down the centre.

Hoorah for traffic! katelnorth 2008

Can't really show what I worked on today, as I was testing the instructions for the June bag for the BQL bag challenge - but here are a couple of teases - I used some of the fat quarter (not a hand-dye, but a printed fabric made to look like space dyeing) on the left to make the flying geese units on the right.

Bag tease katelnorth 2008

On the journal quilt, I have used the corset ad I mentioned above, one of the corset postcards I bought at Snibston, more bits of the hand-dye swatches, some eyelash yarn, green plastic fruit netting, and a big lace flower.

Blue silk day katelnorth 2008

Anne suggested I might be using them as postcard backgrounds if nothing else, and she's right, I often use smaller pieces of hand-dyes in this way - I love the texture a hand-dye gives as a background fabric, so we may well see them used that way in future.

Archive 2007-04-01 katelnorth 2007

Anne suggested I might be using them as postcard backgrounds if nothing else, and she's right, I often use smaller pieces of hand-dyes in this way - I love the texture a hand-dye gives as a background fabric, so we may well see them used that way in future.

Thursday... katelnorth 2007

Oh, I should also say that for the first time, I've actually used the same piece of fabric for both pages - but as it was a hand-dye, and I picked two very different parts of the fabric, they do look quite different.

Archive 2007-01-01 katelnorth 2007

Oh, I should also say that for the first time, I've actually used the same piece of fabric for both pages - but as it was a hand-dye, and I picked two very different parts of the fabric, they do look quite different.

Book pages are red... katelnorth 2007

And here's the block - what I'm going to do is make 20 of these blocks (which are 9 inches finished - those are 1.5 inch squares), each with a different colour batik/hand-dye, but all in pink, purple and blue, and all with the same cream coloured background.

Archive 2006-12-01 katelnorth 2006

And here's the block - what I'm going to do is make 20 of these blocks (which are 9 inches finished - those are 1.5 inch squares), each with a different colour batik/hand-dye, but all in pink, purple and blue, and all with the same cream coloured background.

More projects than sense? katelnorth 2006

What drew me to Farmhouse Yarns was not only the fact that they buy wool directly from local, American sheep farmers, but they also hand-dye the brushed fleece themselves, in a menagerie of color combinations no less!

Yearn-worthy Yarns: Farmhouse American Wool 2007