I paint-dyed some chiffon fabric this week.
It’s the same technique demonstrated in my Stitch a Little Landscape course, very easy and very effective. Any fabric paints will work; acrylic inks will work too.
If you let the fabric partly dry while it’s scrunched up, you get these really attractive watermark effects where the colour settles into the creases:
An unexpected extra – I laid the fabric strips to dry on some packaging paper and now I have free collage paper too:
Some of the chiffon will end up in sheer fabric scrap packs next month. I’m pretty pleased with these, which is always a good way to end the working week.
Have a lovely weekend.
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Good morning, what a great idea having the packing paper under the fabric Karen! Have a lovely weekend!
thanks Martine, always nice to have these unexpected extras 🤗
I love this, Karen. I wondered if you think it would work
it should work on pretty much any kind of fabric I would think; maybe even paper too if you scrunch it up while wet. Happy experimenting!
Just beautiful. I really admire what you do!
thanks so much Karen
Such lovely patterns and colours on both your fabric and paper, no wonder you’re pleased. I often tea or coffee dye sheets copy paper and lay them out to dry on an old cream canvas curtain. Eventually I will get round to using it for some project or other, it gains interesting marks each time I do it.
Have a good weekend.
Thanks so much Fiona. That’s a really excellent idea using fabric as the drop sheet for paper.
I am such a fan of painting fabric. When things finally calm down a bit, I’ll be happy to go back to Stich A Little Landscape and review that piece. Such fun! And the colors are gorgeous.
Thanks so much Em. I don’t paint fabric nearly as often as I’d like to, it’s one of the many things I never seem to get round to. But it is a lot of fun, especially when it all turns out to be even better than I hoped.