Improv Houses...

I was pawing through the fabric cupboard

and found these surface design fabrics...

 

Created with black thickened dye...

Check out what I wrote on the selvage...

I created this fabric with hand made 

nature brushes and 

thickened dye.....in 2018

Looks like it was FUN making this piece !

These circles were created with a

nature brush made from feathers...

This fabric was created by putting strings under

the fabric then rubbing over the top with

thickened dye...

I also found this soy waxed fabric:

I wrote on the fabric with hot soy wax,

after it cooled off and hardened,

I put it in a dye bath.

I also pulled a few commercial fabrics

from the cupboard...

All of these black and white fabrics need

some RED...

These are some of my 

low immersion dyed fabrics...

This is what I will be playing with:

Left......Red Low Immersion Hand dyed Fabrics

Center......Thickened Dye Surface Design Fabrics

Right......Commercial Fabrics

This is my set up:

I will be sewing lots of little seams,

so I set up the felt ironing pad to my left,

cutting mat in the center,

sewing machine on the right...

this helps me work efficiently.

Here we go:

I am creating improv houses...

keeping it very basic

Red hand dyes for the background behind

the improv house...

A wonky house...

The hand dyed fabrics work well

in this design...

This house is wide at the top...

narrow at the bottom

Like potato chips...

can't stop at just one !

This is working....I'll make more !

Each house is different...

18 Improv Houses done today:

Looking forward to adding to this little village

sometime soon...

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi