It’s Been a Busy Summer
I am almost finished piecing the individual blocks for Structures #46 but this summer has been so busy I haven’t found the time to really concentrate on the quilt.
This week I completed the new website for my online group, The Fiber Connection. This group has been instrumental in the forward progress of my art career and I am more than happy to do this work for the group as they have given me so much. Most of the members, all very talented artists, have new work on the website so check us out!
Last week I took my kids on a road trip to Santa Fe, NM and we had a fabulous time. I took a bunch of pictures that are currently trapped on my work laptop but once I figure out how to remove them I will post some of my favorites here. I grew up in Northern New Mexico and it will always feel like home to me. It is spectacularly beautiful and peaceful. And last week darn hot also.
Later this week I will be headed to beautiful Burbank California for the taping of a segment of the new DIY show “Uncommon Threads”. I will be demonstrating how I do my very simple “dump and pour” dyeing. It’s very simple and stress free dyeing that anyone can do. I’m not sure when the show will air but I’ll keep everyone updated.
I needed to have some fabric to display so last night at I dyed a batch of 20 yards with the colors I will be using on the show. I always carry the containers of fabric in the dye baths through the studio and up the stairs to my laundry room and I’ve always been very careful not to spill. Well I guess at 1am I wasn’t very alert and I spilled drops of dye across the entire 30 foot length of the studio and up the stairs. It’s quite difficult to clean up blue dye when your arms are dead tired and you desperately wish you were asleep instead.
Does anyone know how to get dried procion MX dye off of cheap nylon carpet?
Posted by Lisa in: Diversions
Mrs. Mel said,
July 13, 2005 @ 5:31 am
I have dumped dye often on my carpet. it takes lots of water and soap and paper towels to get it up. Once I spilled on our carpeted steps and mixed a bit of bleach in the wash water,and it of course bleached the nylon, so there were big light spots..eventually they got dirty like the rest of the stairs. Now we are carpet free and everything wipes up much easier.