yesterday's post

* Note: I was too tired to finish this last night, so here it is a day later. My day was too boring to discuss at length. I won't do a before and after of my kitchen cabinet with the plastic containers and lids and other assorted paraphenalia; nobody who knows me would believe that I spent an hour before breakfast cleaning and sorting this morning. So neat, you would think somebody else lived here. I wonder how long it will take to get back to normal. Tonight I have been printing again. I do not normally try to make fabric that goes with other fabric I already have. Sonji - and others who do this: I am finding it very difficult; this feels too self-conscious to me. I do not like thinking about what I am doing. And invariably, it won't all work together anyway. Too boring. But here is what I have, along the lines of the purple and blue piece from a few days ago. Some of it is blah, some is good, but in the end I will have samples to show in class. And I will invariably go back into a couple of these pieces.

This is the original one

I made a piece that is similar but layered slightly differently. Here is a section.

Then I made this one.

and the one below, which looked better before I washed it out. Finally, I waxed and painted this piece of fabric and then discharged it. It's a piece of Helene Davis' gorgeous hand-dyes that I wanted to experiment with. Her fabrics arae so complex that they discharge beautifully. This is better than it looks in the photo, which really doesn't do it justice. But we're not there yet. Onward...