Tag Archives: color

A Stroll in the Garden

“The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.” ― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

Gaillardia Indian Blanket

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Foxglove

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” ― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

Phlox

“I don’t fancy colors of the face, I’m always attracted to colors of the brain.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson

Phlox

“Music gives color to the air of the moment.” ― Karl Lagerfeld

Snapdragon

“Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.” ― Khalil Gibran

Chrysanthemum

“Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other.” ― Paulo Coelho

Russian Sage

“Life is a sea of vibrant color. Jump in.” ― A.D. Posey

Autumn Joy Sedum

“Colours are nature gone wild.” ― Raheel Farooq

Goldenrod

“Color is the soul’s softest whisper, a tender touch in darkness, yet it reveals itself neither through fragility nor delicacy, but through a pronounced courage.” ― Jayita Bhattacharjee

Woolly Bear Caterpillar

“If you’re to choose to paint your life today… What will it be? Remember, you’re the artist, not the canvas.” ― Val Uchendu

Woolly Bear Caterpillar

“Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, but they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Autumn Crocus

“If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.” ― G.K. Chesterton

Autumn Crocus

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See the world around you!

More Fabric Dyeing

These will be the last of the fabric dyeing pieces that I am doing for the summer (and probably the year).

Hand Dye
Hand Dye

These photos aren’t perfect, but you get the idea of what each piece looks like. I am sharing the entire piece, and then a close up of each one.

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Hand Dye

Playing with the color has been quite fun!

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Hand Dye

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This last photo is the most accurate of the color and makes a nice stack of possibilities!

Hand Dye

To see the previous hand dyed pieces, click here.

Never stop playing!

Fabric Dyeing

I decided that there is no time like the present to take my dye supplies out of storage and have a play.

I thought that I didn’t have a lot, and I could use up what I have and be done with it.

I thought wrong.

I have lots of dyeing supplies in storage.

And I am enjoying time out of the sewing studio (and away from housework and weeding) playing around with color.

Hand Dye
Hand Dye

*Clicking on a photo will give you a closer look!

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I also thought that my dyes are so old that they will have lost their intensity.

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Wrong again.

I know the close ups don’t do it justice (I had my camera settings wrong), but the next photo does. Lots of deep, rich color!

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Here’s two more:

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Hand Dye

And these are cocoons. Why? I don’t know. I must have had an idea to use these once upon a time.

At any rate…they take the dye well!

Hand Dye

Never stop playing!