This is yet another project made with fabric that I hand-dyed this summer. This is cotton jersey (from Dharma Trading) that I folded and tied up before dyeing with indigo. The pattern is quite similar another knit dress I made recently. I wasn’t lying about liking mock wraps. I wanted a fairly simple pattern to… Read More Shibori Knit Mock Wrap Dress
Since I had four silk scarves that I dyed using shibori (indigo and other natural dyes), I decided to do a bit of experimentation with hems. All the scarves are hemmed using types of “rolled hems” but they all have a slightly different effect. Two of the scarves are done by hand. I first stitched a line… Read More Four Ways to Do a Rolled Hem
Since my mom and I had so much fun dyeing with indigo, we were itching to do some more. I thought about what we had on hand or could easily gather, and we decided to start out with annato and dandelion leaves. The first thing we did was mordant our silk scarves overnight. I use… Read More More Natural Dyeing
This project has been in the works for awhile. Actually this isn’t just one project but several. Awhile ago (well over a year), I ordered an indigo tie dye kit from Dharma Trading. I wanted to do some shibori-style dyeing on some silk. I also wanted to dye some cotton jersey a solid blue… Read More So Much Fun with Shibori