WIP - grumble grumble

WIP - starting somewhere, anywhere, am determined that I WILL produce completed works this year!

What's on My Sewing Table

Or you can't see me, right?  NOTE I do put in my descriptions that my items come from a pet friendly home, someday my studio WILL BE out of the house again.

Bird Harvest No. 2 WIP

In Progress 6x6 inches

Prairie Potholes Rural View

Prairie Potholes Rural View - In progress they need something I'm just not sure what maybe a good nights sleep and NO interruptions in the morning will help??? John was in my studio while I was working I have to admit I did NOT appreciate being told I had to stop because he couldn't hear the woman on the phone, you don't want to know what I was thinking but I did keep it to myself.

Prairie Seeds

See shop for these beauties!

Natural Dyed Silk Velvet Fabrics

Just a sampling of what I listed for sale in my store http://www.prairiefibers.etsy.com/

In Progress

Well this is the before shot from about two years ago, everyone said it needed color, and they were right - to some extent. I do love the white on white work in this piece, I think a lot of folks just don't get subtlies of abstract art, I know my husband certainly doesn't.

Shot of the front the darker pink is Tsukineko ink that was mixed with aloe vera and applied with a dauber. It was never heat set so imagine my suprise when it came through the bath, and two trips through the washer and dryer, intact!

Detail of th wool batting notice it's pink coloring.

And it's taken a couple of years to get through this one! I"m thinking of compost and rust dyeing this piece next. Silk dupioni front, cotton fabric backing, and wool batting, it has been sitting in a Madder lac dye bath for about a week, no premordanting. I think the bath may have exhausted after the first rounds of silk fabrics that went through.

Compost Dyed Fabrics

I listed several pieces of my compost dyed fabrics to my etsy.com store, I'll post some rust dyed pieces tomorrow, today is our 7th year anniversary, so I'm off to spend some well deserved time with my hubby!

My store http://www.prairiefibers.etsy.com/

Silk Fabric Sets

I actually call these prairie seeds~! They are available at my www.prairiefibers.etsy.com store. Each packet contains 1/3 yard of natural dyed silk fabrics in yummy spring time colors.