Sunday afternoon, after the better part of three days in the kitchen dyeing, I lamented that I was particularly discouraged with the results of all that work. I posted my apparent problems to one of my online groups and, without going into details here, pretty much figured out what I was doing wrong -- or at least what I will do differently in future. Dissatisfaction aside, I sure learned a lot...probably more than I would have had things gone according to plan! That's usually the way it is, isn't it?
So today I discharged my little heart out! I had a pot of thiox going on the stove nearly all day and worked on numerous pieces of fabric -- mostly different cottons, and largely solid black or mostly-black commercial fabrics. Some pieces I over discharged two and three times until I got what I was after. Tomorrow I'll make a pot of bleach solution and discharge again -- some different pieces and some of the same as today.
I really love discharging. It's such a magical process. I've started working with the Art Quilt Workbook, by Jane Davila and Elin Waterston, and the theme I will be using for all the instructional quilts will be discharged fabrics. Here are a few of today's results...
The last piece is an old linen napkin that I dyed and overdyed, then discharged today in thiox. There's just no end to the interesting things that can be done on fabric by discharging. I'm hooked on it!
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