This Week's Work

Scarves, stoles and shawls are completed. The hand rolled hems weren't as difficult as I remembered.
Thursday, Leigh and I will go to the beach to photograph them.
Today I'll start on small quilts for the Quilt Visions project - Fantasy Flowers.
The fees for the April and May shows have seriously depleted the budget. So dyeing the several hundred recycled shirts and tops will have to wait for two weeks. Then what a wonderful day I will have visiting as many thrift stores as possible in one day, searching for fun and fashionable tops.
These tops will get batched low water immersion dyed. I'm going to try Lisa Call's low water rinse process. Recapping that process, Lisa removes items from the dye bath, gives them a quick rinse, then into the washing machine with Synthrapol in the hottest water possible. She washes twice, the second time with a household detergent, and if the water runs clear that's it. If not then a third wash.
Rinsing is the most labor and water intensive part of the low water immersion dyeing process and often I doubt whether the whole thing should be called low water.
I'll change the process up a little. I wring everything. I also wash fabric items at the laundromat. I've learned which washers have really hot water and which dryers heat up well. Saves time to have several machines going at once.
There is a green exhibition in Encinitas. Deadline for submissions is April 12th. Dare I try to get an artwear jacket finished by then. I'll try. If not the jacket, then some small quilts made from recycled linen napkins.
The items for the Spiva Art Center Gift Shop are due to be shipped by the first.
So I'm off of here and in the Studio.