Hand-dyed background and fused commercial black cotton. The dyeing was a fun job I did outside, managing to also ruin a good work-shirt, because of course I wasn't going to spill any dye. I can't seem to locate any of the Procion Dyes that everyone talks about, so I just used the Lady Dye Cold Water dyes that I could buy at our local pharmacy. I had a blue, a red and a yellow and mixed various other colours from these. Then, not being able to find any squeeze bottles in which to put the dyes, I turned to what was available - a box of old, expired 20 ml syringes that had been discarded from work some time back. (Of course Magpie here had carried them home at the time and stashed them - see? sometimes I even USE the stuff I stash :) ) So I filled all the syringes with dye and then just syringed it randomly. The table surface was skew and the old shower curtain I was doing it on, was buckled - but it seemed to turn out OK anyway. So when I saw the plate, I KNEW what I would do with the multi-coloured cloth.
Below are two detail shots.
And now I am stuck, so it's hanging on the design wall, waiting for inspiration to strike. I don't know if it needs something in the corners, or if I should just quilt an echo of the shapes there... I will wait and see.
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