Saturday, June 1, 2013

Baby Mix and Match Wardrobe

The finale of the dyeing adventure of baby stuff.  I think the little hats and booties are so cute. Hope he gets to wear them.  I started out with a dozen pairs of booties and ended up with 3 1/2 pairs. Either the washing machine ate them, or the mice are sleeping in them.  I figure that these should get him through early fall and by then I will have more (and larger) clothes made.  The clothing blanks are from Dharma except for the onesies.


                                         sky blue


                                         lapis blue  


                                          navy blue

Baby Onsies

This a continuation of my dyeing adventures.


This is supposed to be a shade of tan. To me it looks more like gold.  I knew as soon as the stuff hit the dye that it was darker than what I wanted.

This is sky blue and navy blue

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Baby Blankets and Sleepers


This is my first real venture into dyeing. It isn't at all hard to get something dyed. Getting the exact shade and even color is a little harder. So far, I haven't quite got the amount of stirring necessary nailed down. You may notice that the solids are rather blotchy. That isn't entirely on purpose.  Since they are all shades of blue I'm calling them sky scapes and letting it go.



                                                                        Sky Blue



                                                                  Lapis Blue


                                                                   
                                                                      Navy Blue

The navy blanket I used the low-water immersion method by Ann Johnson from her book 'Color by Accident'.  I'm thrilled by the way it came out.



This sleeper was dyed with the low-water immersion method with Lapis Blue dye.  The purple bits sprang up spontaneously.  Pretty much all dye colors are a made of a mix of different colors so you don't know what might be in there.  Cool, huh ? 



The mottling of the Sky blue makes it more like a sky.

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Baby Bibs

These are real simple.  I just added iron-on transfers to ready-made bibs.  Images are from 
The Graphics Fairy .

 


Thursday, April 18, 2013

Baby T Shirts




Awwwww.  So tiny.  I can hardly beleive that a real person is going to wear these tiny T's.
I used iron-on transfers and the images are from The Graphics Fairy

Sunday, April 14, 2013

More Wrap Bracelets









I've tried some new things with this batch of wrap bracelets. One bracelet is two colors and others are three colors. Hopefully that gives the look of three bracelets together. I'm liking the bright springy colors here.  I will make more when the shipment of leather arrives.

The Taco Bell Bag



This bag has a bit of a story to it.  This lady's kids ate lots of Taco Bell and she wanted me to make her a bag from all the Taco Bell bags.  She sent over bunches and bunches of bags and each time I sent back the message : More bags, please. We even lost touch with her for several months. Here it is finally finished. I love the lavendar and white so I guess it was worth it.