Playing with dyes

Last Friday I spent the day at the wonderful studio belonging to Ineke Berlyn.  Ineke showed us how to start with 2 colours of procion dye thickened with Manutex and how mixing these two colours produced a series of other colours.

Then she let us loose on our fabric.  I used calico from Ikea.

I started with Golden Yellow and Cerise.

I did a second series of colours making up a blue/grey and yellowy orange.

On the third cloth I used colours from both colour ranges.  It's a bit messy but will be useful for cutting small bits for embellishments.

I have since washed the cloths that I made.  On the edge of the fabric I had painted each colour so before I washed the cloths I cut those swatches in half to see if there was any difference in colour after the cloth was washed.

The strip on the left is the one that wasn't washed.  On the whole the colours didn't wash out although the original Cerise and Golden Yellow has washed out a bit.  I'm quite glad really as these colours were rather dominant.

In this strip there's hardly any colour difference.

So next time we get together at Ineke's studio I am hoping to make one of these painted fabrics into a textile book.  I am particularly taken with the book that Ineke features in this blog post.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Take Me Deeper: February week 4

Earlier in the week I told you how I had caught up with the February devotionals.  Today I am sharing the final one on the theme of love.

This week we were looking at 'Love yourself.'   This is something that in the past I have really struggled with.  Facilitating the Freedom in Christ course at church and hosting the Identity series online has really helped me to know who I am in Christ.

For this last journal page I inked the page first and then stamped the heart and wrote the journaling.

The page in progress

 The finished page

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

The Father Heart of God journal

The Father Heart of God Bible Study has finished but before we leave it altogether I thought I would show you the cover I made.

I used a heart stencil and 3 colours of Distress Ink.

I used some alphabet stickers which don't show up too well but I really love the letters so I don't mind.

I measured some ribbon to use as a closer.

I made a hole through the ribbon and the paper and added a brad.  The split pin on the back doesn't show up too omuch and I could put something over it to hide it if it bothers me later!

Here is the ribbon tied so that the zigzag book doesn't fall open.

I made a video of the whole journal.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice