Yesterday I spent all day dying samples with my friend, Heather Kerner. Heather is a felter and she is part of the Maine Fiber Arts weekend. Heather does wonderfully felted hats and other stuff. You can find her work at Spiralworks. She invited me to come to her day long demo and schmooze fest. We were going to make it into a play date and dye some stuff we didn't like. I had these rolls of precut wool fabric that my mother had done 5 plus years ago. She was going to make a braided rug. I hated the colors and wanted to see how they dyed up and just to do something new and different.
I should have brought my camera with me. But I didn't. We had a blasts. She dyed yarn she didn't like and felted up some nuno pieces. I came away with some samples of colors. The precut wool had a pattern and tone variations throughout so I got some pretty interesting stuff.
Pretty wild going from one to the other. I think I will have to go buy dye for all 5 colors and do a rug. I love the red and orange gold color. But both can be really overpowering. Can't wait to do it all!
The next project was a quickie one I did today. I need a small purse to carry the bare essentials in, the license, a credit card or two, a couple of bills etc. Nothing bulky or heavy could be carried in it. All I have is my runaway bag. That I can take as an overnight bag with a change of clothes. I had to have small. I took some of the fabric paper I had made. Cut it to the three fold size I thought would be good. I then made a lining out of material with a light interface to help with keep it sturdy. Stitched it all together and added a vintage button closure and crocheted handle/shoulder strap.
This will work perfectly for my needs when I don't have pockets to keep those things in. This worked up so easily I just may have to make a few more.
dye wool rugmaking braid fabric collage purse
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I love the small catch-all purse-ette!
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