Western Wake County Farmers Market and Craft Show Saturday November 5, 2011

What a GREAT adventure!
The wind and the cold had to be experienced.  As you can see by the below pictures we had a steady blast and some wild gusts!

You can see the table cloths and the scarves blowing in the wind 

Luckily I grabbed some rocks I picked up in Lake Superior to put on the coners to keep the table cloths from blowing off.

When we had started our dying thing, we started on cotton fabrics and stiched Shibori panels before we found the scarf niche. We decided to add some of these projects to the offerings. Below are some pictures.



Fat Quarters and squares



As the day wore on the wind got stronger and stronger. It became a challange that the dragonflies took on....

The other vendors had issues as well, lucky for us there are two of us, one on each side. However a nice man named Travis came over and helped us shore of the sides of the tent to keep it more stable so we were at least able to conduct business. Thank you Travis!!!!

It was a nice market and here are a couple of shots of the marketplace.

We made a new friend, his name is Dewey! Dosen't he look adorable in one of our bandana's?



Dying with Ice

Saturday the Dragonflies played around with a technique called “Ice Dying”.

The gist of the whole process is using dry dye powder and to sprinkle on ice to get a very interesting color intensity.

You need the following:

• Scarf or fabric (soaked in Soda Ash water)     
• Procian dye (I used Turquoise and Fuchsia and Golden Yellow)
• Plastic spoon             
• Container to hold iced fabric  
• Crushed Ice

After soaking your scarf or fabric in soda ash water, lay it out in the container

Sprinkle the ice over the top of the scarf (or fabric) and even it out across the surface

Measure out some dye on the plastic spoon and start to sprinkle on to the ice.

After you get the coverage you want,

fold the ends of the scarf (or fabric) over the ice

add more ice over the surface.

*Note: try to remember to add the ice before you accidently sprinkle the surface with ice.

I also added a dash of Golden Yellow just to break up the blue and red.

After I added all the colors I wanted to add, I took it outside and let the sun accelerate the melting process.  

After an hour and a half I came back to them and found scarf soup.

I was rather afraid that I was going to end up with a mess on my hands, but my fears turned to delight after I rinsed and washed the scarf. Below are the results and for a first time I think they came out well!



 

Designer Downtown Market Sunday September 25, 2011

We attended the Downtown Designers Market Sunday September 25. It was supposed to be on Saturday the 24th however the rain just wouldn't stay away!!!
Here are some pictures of our set up. We made out booth fee back so it was a success!!!



Dye Day!!!!!!

I had a dye day a couple of weeks ago...below are some results!!

I over dyed a scarf that had to much white in the finished product...not anymore!

A burn out with blue/green mix

multi color twig burn-out



Over dye with red, orange and blue



Swirley line burn out dark pink

Burnout with dark purple

Over dye using cut out snowflakes

swirley burnout with red and yellow mix

red/yellow/orange shibori



over dye with reds

What a play day!!! Sun Painting

Techno and I had another play day. We learned how to sun paint with Set a Color paints and cotton fabric. We had a great time and here are some of the results.

It's a pretty simple process.

You'll need:

Paint Brushes - bristle or sponge

Set a color paints (I got mine from Dharma)

White cotton fabric (must be wet, not sopping)

small cups to mix water and paint

plastic bags (I used large garbage bags)

craft tissue paper to add more color

leaves or other items of interest

Using the small cups, I diluted paint to a thinner consistancy so it would be easier to spread. I also mixed up some purple and green to add. I laid the garbage bags down on the table and smoothed the wet fabric over it and gently spread out the air bubbles and creases.

I used a sponge brush to lightly go over the fabric, letting it bleed across as it would. I use lighter colors first when I layer so I started with light yellow and finished with red or blue.

Then I applied torn up strips of tissue paper to further add to the crazy colors

When the fabric got nice and covered, we took them outside to "cook" in the sun. Below is the result

  

Know what happens when you take leaves and put them on the wet paint and "cook" outside? You get a really neat looking fabric!

The next batch I painted the fabric same as before however this time I laid different leaves on the top and set it outside.

I thought the results were really cool!!!







We had a Show on Friday August 12

Cordula and I had the opportunity to set up at a "Ladies" night out Friday August 12 at Weycroft, an active Adult Community. It was supposed to be held outside at the pool, however the threat of thunderstorms that night coralled us all into the community center.

The layout we were going to follow was more for the tent but I think we made a decent showing, even if we had to use the blue painters tape to hold up our banner.

Dale made the new table display which I have to say turned out very nice!

We had a very nice time. Cindy, the coordinator for the event was a great hostess.  We met lots of great people and the ladies looked like they were having a wonderful time.

The Sew Cozy Cottage

Cloth, Paper, Scissors held a "home sweet home" contest. The challange was to use a pattern that was provided and to "create" your home. I took the challange! Below are pictures of my Sew Cozy Cottage

I used Lutadur as a base for the cottage and stiched batting to the back of it. Then with paint, pine cones, beads, sequins, bits of fabric, a toothpick and wool I was able to complete the "look".

If you look inside the large window you'll see the living room inside.