6.20.2005

Update

Either there is no one out there reading this, or y'all just didn't answer my plea for help on that hand-dye. Fine. Be that way! ;)

DH Kevin just made up a little song about QA digests...
100 QA digests online, 100 QA digests! Load one down and read it aloud - 105 QA digests on line!

Sigh... how true!

Anyway - just got "off the shelf fabric painting" by Sue Beevers. WOW!!! I can use flour as a resist!?!?!? Gotta try that one!

And, despite your silence on the issue, I think that I just plain need to overdye those fabrics *again* - not much point working on it otherwise, if I am just going to be hating the lack of values the whole time!

Our Solstice festival went wonderfully yesterday afternoon - bunch of new folks showed up too, which was nice, and afterward a bunch of us went down the cliff to the beach and went in up to our thighs in good old Lake Champlain! Yummy!!!! I kept wanting to just dive in, but plastering a sundress to my skin in front of relative strangers wasn't really high on the list. Ah well... it is only 6 blocks away, and the summer is young yet!

I *wanted* to try some sunprints tomorrow - actual solstice day, so I thought it would be cool - but friends are getting married, and I should go, so... Maybe I'll sunprint on Wed - the first FULL day of summer!

It has *finally* stopped raining here, and is absolutely gorgeous! DH is going to mow the lawn today (which usually requires teeth pulling), so you just KNOW it must be nice out!

Just discovered that I need to make myself an official QA tiara for the Vermont Quilt Festival this weekend. I have some tacky silver cow earrings that a friend gave me ages ago, and will never be worn in my ears that I think can make a showing... DH says that I need a Flying Frog since that is my handle, but I don't know that I want to spend that kind of time on my tiara atm. I'm figuring that I'll make one that will suffice for a while, and then upgrade; sort of like my sewing machine!

Anyway, off to work - this is my last week of mornings at home until August, and I want to enjoy it!!!!!
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2 comments:

The Ride Report from Mud Creek said...

heh, well I am not an expert on hand dyes but I will give you my opinion....I guess it would depend on what you mean by commercial hand dyes. If it is a fairly small operation I would think they would prewash (and therefore preshrink) their fabric before dying it. A commercial fabric company probably would not. Does the width of the fabric give you any clues?
Sorry if that isn't very helpful :)

6/20/2005 1:21 PM
Pat Dolan said...

Hey, Susan - I'm sure I left a comment. I remember congratulating Kevin on his new job somewhere in there! Maybe I just sent you an e-mail since the comment isn't showing up under your 6/18 blog entry...

Pat

6/20/2005 2:50 PM

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