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Ali 🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣

New #introduction post!

I'm Alicia and I'm a fibre artist (#dyeing #handspinning #felting #needlefelting #weaving #crochet #embroidery #upcycling #sewing) with interests in #mandala #art #psychedelicart #sacredgeometry #neurographicart and #watercolors.

My family and I run a business called @Fibre2Fabric where we dye all sorts of exotic #fibre #yarn, and #fabric.

I live in the country with my partner and our 6 #cats, 3 #dogs, #snake and #crestedgecko where I enjoy my many interests. (#gardening #plants #herbalism #fungi #music #ukulele #piano #dancing #flowart #reading #writing #tarot #poetry #haiku #cozygames and I'm getting more into #opensource / #linux)

When I say flow art, I mean spinning props like #hulahoop #leviwand #puppyhammer #poi #staff #silkfans #firefans etc.

I love #languagelearning. I studied #German and #Spanish as a kid, took #Japanese in uni, and I'm currently studying #ASL #Cree #Tokipona #Spanish and #Chinese. I also dabble in #French and #Latin sometimes and I'm learning #Greggshorthand to write faster. Cree is my favourite language and Spanish is my second.

I've been cursed since childhood with that lovely trifecta of #heds #pots and #mcas. Healing slowly but surely.

Hope I get to meet even more cool people the algorithms would normally drown out on other social media sites. I love it here!

A person with long brown hair with blonde tips. They are wearing a purple and black hat, rainbow glasses with gold rims and have multicolored metal snakebite piercings. They are smiling. They are wearing a black, purple, and white top.
#intro#yeg#edmonton
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Kake

I dyed a t-shirt for bob using low-water immersion after tying it in little bunches with water-soluble thread. The idea of using the water-soluble thread was to avoid white marks — I wanted it to just be “different” in some way in the tied parts, but not to block the dye completely. (Also I didn’t want to have to untie it all afterwards.)

The low-water immersion worked nicely to split out the constituent red (magenta) and blue (cobalt blue) parts of the dye, giving lots of different purples, and the little tied bunches ended up looking like cells or neurons (according to bob).

Photos here of the tied t-shirt before going in the dye bath, plus a close-up and not-close-up of the results. bob has a photo of him wearing it which no doubt he will post in this thread at some point.

A white cotton t-shirt tied up in little bunches, looking a bit like closely-spaced bantu knots, or maybe like the fleece of a toy sheep. It’s sitting on a cutting mat with metric markings showing that its size has shrunk considerably from the pre-tying state.
The same t-shirt after dyeing with a custom-mixed purple dye. The little tied knots have transformed into wobbly circles with pale circumferences and darker centres. The dye has split (as was intended) giving a variegation of different shades of purple.
A close-up of the dyed t-shirt, showing how the variegation follows the crinkles that were formed when the t-shirt was tied.
#Dyeing#Textiles
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Kake

I did some dyeing for the first time since November! My second attempt at a green (#10 in the photo), and my first attempt at an orange (#11).

I’ve also added a photo of this green next to my previous attempt at a green (#9), which shows how much difference it can make to use a different blue in the mix. The blue and yellow are in the same proportions in each batch, but the cerulean blue and cobalt blue give very different results. (#9 looks nicer here than under most lighting conditions — non-overcast daylight suits it, but most of the time it looks kinda ugly.)

And finally a photo of my orange and my latest green along with an extremely failed attempt at a purple (#1) — I like these three together and am now pondering quilting patterns for them.

Two small bundles of fabric tied up with thin black string and labelled with slips of paper. The one on the left is a lightly variegated bright green, and its label reads: Dye job #10, white cotton poplin, 3% 004 lemon yellow, 1% 070 cerulean blue. The other is a more heavily variegated light/deep reddish orange, and its label reads: Dye job #11, white cotton poplin, 3.5% 004 lemon yellow, 0.5% 034 magenta. Some mysterious force in your mind tells you that the 004, 034, and 070 are the numbers of those particular dyes in the Jacquard Procion MX labelling system, and the percentages are the weights of each dye (as a proportion of the weight of fabric) used to make these colours.
The bright green fabric from the previous photo next to a darker, muddier green with the label: Dye job #9, white cotton poplin, 3% 004 lemon yellow, 1% 076 cobalt blue. The two greens go together quite nicely in this light, which is indirect daylight.
The bright green and orange fabrics from the first photo, with a third one which despite being a deep variegated pink has a label reading: Dye job #1, white cotton poplin, 4% 050 deep purple. (There is nothing deep purple about it.) The colour combination is reminiscent of kids’ sweets, or perhaps of fruit in a videogame.
#dyeing#textiles
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Petra van Cronenburg

Making a mess in the kitchen. I normally dye outside in summer. But I finally want to work with these fabric strips that are too white for the project. So far, I've only dyed paper with this mixture (for days in the sun). I'm curious to see if it will work.

Tip: If you have tea too old to drink, they give a great dye for most papers and natural textiles!

A look inside a white bowl: white strips of fabric float in a cherry-red solution of concentrated old mallow and hibiscus tea. Some blue mallow flowers swim on the surface.
#Dyeing#EcoDye#Plantdye
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Kake

The in-progress photos of my hand-dyed patchwork that I previously put on Mastodon are no longer available here since strangeobject.space was shut down, and I have some new ones proving that I did in fact actually finish making them into a cushion cover, so here they are. (This is just one cushion cover — it’s different on each side.)

A square cushion cover patchworked together from hand-dyed marble-effect fabrics in shades of purples and pinks. The colours radiate out in a chronologically-dyed diamond arrangement from a bright pink at the centre that was a totally failed attempt to get a nice purple, through various other pinks and a blue (the result of overshooting) and finally a lovely true purple in the corners that mostly isn’t visible on this side of the cushion.
More patchwork using five of the colours from the previous photo, this time arranged as a fat four-pointed star on top of an offset thin four-pointed star. The lovely best perfect purple is much more visible here because it’s the background behind the stars. The points of the different pieces of fabric are matched up very nicely and Kake is very proud of them. Also there are octagonal quilting lines on top of the stars, again with the points matching up nicely, and Kake is equally proud of that part too.
#Dyeing#Patchwork#Quilting
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Karen Strickholm

🧵🧵🧵 The craftsmanship here is dazzling! Such engaging videography in this documentary shot in India. Takes you right into the workshops and studios.

"The Unmatched skills of Indian embroiderers" from #SliceTravel on #YouTube

#Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator #Crochet #Weaving #Dyeing #Spinning #HandSpinning #Embroidery #Felting #Crafts #HandMade

youtube.com/watch?v=RoLuE_1T1P

Hands at work on white fabric, applying blue beads, red fabric in foreground
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Kake

@bob This was a mix of low-water immersion and resist dyeing. I pleated a white t-shirt and secured the pleats with soluble basting thread (to avoid the thread making white marks where I didn't want them). Then I folded it up loosely to fit it into my dyeing container. The vertical lines in bob’s photo come from the pleats, and the horizontal lines come from the folding.

Here’s a photo of the t-shirt before dyeing.

#Dyeing
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Kake

Experiments with curved piecing. The fabric is scraps left over from toiles (test versions of clothes patterns), and I was following a tutorial written by Helen Butcher: littlepatchpockets.co.uk/patte

I have a dyeing experiment — my first green! — currently sitting in its soda ash solution (this is what makes the dyes bond to the fibres) ready to be rinsed and checked tomorrow. I’m hoping it’ll come out a shade that will go nicely with some of my existing pinks/blues/purples so I can make some of these blocks in actual colours.

Four small squares of fabric with curved white and grey stripes, each one created by sewing together smaller pieces of solid-coloured fabrics. The stripes are of variable width, cut deliberately non-uniformly by hand rather than with a template.
#Quilting#Dyeing
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Kake

New instance, new #introduction — hello, I’m Kake, I live in South London, and I like making things.

I make all my own clothes (except for socks), and I make patchworked textiles using my own hand-dyed fabrics. Sometimes I embroider them.

I’m part of the creator team on the Discworld MUD; in other words, I help to build a game that’s set in an immersive world made entirely out of words, and I do this with a mix of creative writing, bad puns, programming, bugfixing, and esoteric knowledge of a 30-year-old codebase. discworld.starturtle.net/

I’m good at cooking, but I’m mainly interested in simplifying it so it doesn’t take time away from the other things I want to do. I like to develop fast-to-prepare recipes with vegetables and pulses and wholegrains. I’m an omnivore, and I generally prefer fish to meat.

I spent several years writing an ongoing local history of the land and buildings along a road near my house, but I put this on pause after the pandemic started, when I ran out of the material I’d already researched. One day I might pick it up again. london-road-croydon.org/histor

Also, in no particular order, and not limited to: trans people are valid, immigrants make societies better, it’s OK to be fat, the Fediverse has a racism problem, women are not second-class citizens, Israel’s genocidal behaviour is an outrage, disabled people have value.

discworld.starturtle.netDiscworld MudDiscworld MUD is a multiplayer, text-based online game based on the Discworld books as written by Terry Pratchett. On Discworld you will meet many of the characters from those books. Terry's books are humorous fantasy and the game retains the comical, fun feel of the books.
#Sewing#Quilting#Dyeing
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