Soy Wax...

Earlier this week I played with hot Soy Wax...

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I was having such a great time that I

forgot to take pictures of my progress...

At this stage of the process:

The fabrics have been stamped with hot wax.

I used different kitchen gadgets as stamps.

Then I watered down textile paint and

painted over the entire piece of fabric.

The wax acted as a resist.

The paint did not absorb where the wax was stamped.

After the paint was dry...

I placed parchment paper on top of the fabric and

heat set the textile paint.

This also removed most of the soy wax from the fabric.

Then I placed the ironed fabrics in the

washing machine set on HOT wash.

Here they are drying on the clothesline today:

This was a sampler I created to test out all of

the kitchen gadgets,

to determine which worked best for hot wax stamping

The soy wax worked great as a resist...

The waxed areas remain white like the original

color of the fabric.

I think I will go in again and stamp these same fabrics

with hot wax, paint them, and see what I get.

Also, I plan to stamp hot wax on commerical fabrics, then the waxed area will have some color other than white.

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn