100 Textile Sketches: 029-037

These sketches are studies for a project. I experimented with appliqué letters and framing images.

I'm making a quilt to commemorate my first year as a grower of natural dye plants. It contains dyed fabric of all the flowers I grew specifically for dyeing last year, alongside a few favorites already growing in our yard. The top is finished and I’m planning the back. It includes cyanotypes of plants and seeds as well as documentation about the plants used.

While these aren’t the most compelling standalone compositions, they were super helpful to test ideas for my garden quilt. I now have a concrete plan of attack!

TS-029

Wood block from India, mordant paste dyed with logwood, offcuts from previous blocks, undyed muslin.

TS-030

A rubber block I carved, mordant paste dyed with buckthorn, exhaust dyed muslin scraps, undyed muslin.

TS-031

A rubber block I carved, DIY foam stamps, mordant paste dyed with cochineal, exhaust dyed muslin scraps.

TS-032

A rubber block I carved, mordant paste dyed with logwood, exhaust dyed muslin scraps, itajime shibori.

TS-033

Exhaust dyed muslin scraps, mordant paste dyed with pomegranate, undyed muslin, reverse appliqué, handwriting.

TS-034

Exhaust dyed muslin scraps, undyed muslin, needle-turn appliqué, handwriting.

TS-035

Exhaust dyed muslin scraps, undyed muslin, bias tape.

TS-036

Exhaust dyed muslin scraps, itajime shibori, undyed muslin.

TS-037

Exhaust dyed muslin scraps, itajime shibori, undyed muslin.