Wednesday, April 17, 2013

One year!

I started writing this blog one year ago today!   Thanks to all who have read my blog.  I appreciate the wonderful comments and encouragement.

Mid-April in Utah
Yesterday we woke up to 6 inches of snow.  Welcome to April in Utah!  My daffodils were just starting to open and now they are buried under a heavy wet snow.  Hopefully it will not hang around for too long.

Tea bag dyeing
I have started to drink tea in the afternoons.  2-3 cups of it.  As I was washing out my insulated mug, I realized it was getting some tea stains and it occurred to me that I could use my used tea bags to tea dye some fabric. So I tore off a yard of washed muslin (I don't have any PFD around right now) and wadded it up inside a plastic grocery bag.  I am tucking the wet used tea bags in the fabric and then closing the bag to keep some of the moisture in.  I have been doing this for about 5 days now.  I will give it another week or so and then check it out. I drink a variety of teas, so the colors should be a bit different than if I had used all the same type of tea.

Art Cloth Round Robin



About 6 months ago I blogged about a fabric round robin that a group of my friends invited me to join.  I started my piece of fabric with some rust dyeing. I got my piece back the other day.  I like it!  The photographs are a bit washed out,it is a bit darker. The first  person did some dyeing after blocking the rusty spots with a resist.  Someone else did something with some keys and also gave me a couple of old keys to use in my finished piece.  I like the gridded blues.  I kind of have an idea of what to do with this, but will let it sit for a bit since I don't have a clear vision.  Luckily the deadline has been changed to a later date.

This is my Off the Wall post for the week.  Check out what everyone else is up to at Nina-Marie's blog.



7 comments:

  1. Happy 1st Blogoversary.....And many many more to come....

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  2. Congratulations and Happy Blogoversary! Great job!

    I really can't wait to see how the tea fabric comes out. Maybe that could be the beginning of your next surface design round robin fabric!

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  3. Congrats on your anniversary! I too love using my blog as an art journal. Ohhh and I also drink a couple of drawers of tea - although lately this great black tea/green tea/mint combo is my latest obsession. Just enough caffeine to keep me going and not too much to make me jittery.

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  4. The tea bag fabric is wonderful! Happy anniversary!

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  5. How fun to be in a round robin like this. The finished fabric is great.

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  6. A fun idea - and I like your fabric.

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