Okay, so everyone in blogland is talking about PROCESS and showing not just finished work but the process getting there. So I decide, hey, I can do that!

It has finally gotten warm enough here to fye fabric. So I picked a hot day and tried out some cool thing I saw on Quilting Arts. This wonderful artist, whose name escapes me (I will add it when I remember), does the amazing technique of stitch resist. You do lots of rows of hand stitching like this:

Okay, hers wasn’t exactly like this but it’s my piece so I can do what I want, right? Here is a closeup:

This is taking entirely too long and is boring to boot. So, I decide to baste by machine like this:

And here is how it looked when I was done stitching:

Still very boring to do but at least it took less time than by hand….at least that is what I thought at the time…..Then it was time to pull all those stinking basting threads and knot them and I ended up with this:

Okay, this is going to be so cool! I dump it in the dye……

Yes, I dumped it in the dye……

I was supposed to paint the dye on the top.  I can’t believe I did all that work and dumped it in the dye and then……I squeezed the dye through! How dumb can I be? This is not the first yard of fabric I have dyed! Good grief!

After it cured and I spent a hundred years with rubber gloves on pulling out 99 million basting threads I got (are you ready for this?)….drumroll please………

Quite possibly the most boring piece of hand dyed fabric ever created. Here is a closeup in case you have insomnia and need a sleep aid:

Remember that part about doing things my own way? Sometimes not such a great idea…..The pieces I did the least prep work on turned out the best that day. Lessons learned….the hard way.

Did someone way you were only supposed to share your SUCCESSFUL processes?  Ooops……again.

Until next time…..