Sakura Pallette

Sakura Pallette - Pink and Grays 

Still showcasing Candy G.'s favorite analogous color palettes from her Fabric Dyeing 103 class on multi-color fabrics.  In truth I diverged a bit from the proscribed colors in this lesson. 

Candy had a Tiger Lily pallette with orange amongst the grays.  I oped to swap out the rusty orange for a light pink, which I dubbed Sakura, in honor of cherry blossoms.

Part of the reason I wanted to take this class was to combine colors on clothing blanks.   I have a dress I want to do in this color scheme. ;-)

 Here's the accordion-pleated half yard.  I love the way this turned out!

 Here are the individual fat quarters staged atop the scrumbled half yard.

 Detail shot.  I am intrigued by the places where the original colors meet.  Where they come together, we get entirely new colors mixing on the fabric.

 In this one you can see a hint of lavendar where the pink and gray comes together.

 Detail shots from the accordion-pleated half yard.  

Lunar Eclipse

Lunar Eclipse

Still showcasing Candy G.'s favorite analogous color palettes from her Fabric Dyeing 103 class on multi-color fabrics.  I'm rather fond of this one myself.  ;-)  Blue to black.

 

Here's the sample swatch, accordion-pleated in the dye pot. 

 Her'es the larger half yard, accordion pleated, batching in the dye pot.

Here's the scrumbled half yard, batching int he dye pot.

 Results of Lunar Eclipse with the 3 individually dyed fat quarters 

staged atop the scrumbled half yard.

 Detail shot of the scrumbled Lunar Eclipse.

 Another shot of the Lunar Eclipse Pallette.

 Her'e shte accordion-pleated half yard, unfurled.

Moss Green

Moss Green

Still showcasing Candy G.'s favorite analogous color palettes from her Fabric Dyeing 103 class on multi-color fabrics.   Green to black.

Here's the sample accordion pleat batching in the low-water immersion dye pot. 

Rich deep colors gave me a lot of hope for this one!

 

Here's the scrumbled half yard batching in the dye pot.

Here are the 3 isolated colors dyed on individual fat quarters atop the scrumbled half yard.
You can see a fair amount of yellow in the green.  I'd forgotten to re-mix the dye before I poured it.  The yellow has a tendency to settle out.  Not quite what I was hoping for.

Here's another view.

 Here's the accordion pleated half yard.  Again, the light was a little odd when I took the photograph, so it' doesn't quite look like it does in real life.

Here's a detail shot, with truer colors.

Shades of Turquoise

Shades of Turquoise

4 fat quarters staged with the scrumbled fat half yard.

There doesn't seem tobe much difference between the light turquoise and the plain turquoise.  

Detail of the accordian pleated half yard.

I don't think I got any shots of the fabric batching in it's bins for this one. 

Dyeing Again : Revisiting an Old Class with Candied Fabrics

 Tints of Grape

Tints are where you mix in white -- or in this case -- water, to lighten the base hue.

I purchased access to this online class, Dyeing Multicolor Fabric, back in 2014 or 2015, but haven't taken the time to really dig into it.  Candy G. provides many hours of expert video instruction coupled with the recommended hands-on time in our own studios.   On top of that, she is very accessible, and responsive to questions.  Since I bought the class all those years ago, I've decided that winters are just too cold to be in the basement slogging through the lessons, and summers haven't been hot enough to drive me down there (the only cool spot in our house)-- until this a few weeks ago.  Yes -- you've seen me dyeing yarn and some clothing recently.  That gave me the push to learn more about creating multi-color palettes, and combining colors.

If you want to mix your own colors from primaries, I highly recommend Candie's Dyeing 101 class for Controlling Color, where you create The Candiotic Table (Think of The Periodic Table of Elements) and develop color mixing recipes from 3 or 6 primary colors.   This single class was a game-changer for me, and blew the door open on being able to mix and recreate specific colors.   I often refer back to those tables as references for what colors I can mix myself, without buying multiple prepared colors.  Then again -- The serendipity approach can be fun to experiment with, too!

Last summer I had good intentions -- bought the supplies and prepared the fabric.  I think I might have even watched some of the first lessons.  But I never quite got around to dyeing ...  I'd also forgotten just how much preparation needs to happen BEFORE you can get to pouring color on fabric.  Most of this afternoon was spent cutting the fabric into the required parcels (It was already pre-washed / scoured from lat summer), soaking it in soda ash solution, mixing up the dye concentrates, and pleating or scrumbling the fabric parcels to get interesting textures. 

This weekend, I'm starting with the monochromatics -- That's where you take 1 color and mix varying intensities of that 1 color from darker to lighter, and throw all of that onto the same piece of cloth.   This technique alters the value of the color.  You never have to worry about the colors clashing, because it's always the same base color, just different depths of tints, shades, and tones.

Past supper time, I was finally getting to where I could measure out the dyes in the required tints to finally pour the grape tints on the fabric.  These will batch overnight.  Hopefully, I'll get through 4 more sets tomorrow night after work--

Worked through Tints of Grape (see photo at the top of this post)

and Shades of Turquoise.

Shades are where you add black to darken a base hue.

Next time, I'll show you the mixed color pallets!

Candied Fabrics Lesson 8 : Naturals Triad - Shades Tints and Tones

 

 I finally finished up the labels for the Candied Fabrics Lesson 8 : Tints, Shades & Tones.  

I used the Naturals Triad.

 

 Here's the color wheel with all 18 "pure hues."

I was actually using the other color wheel, but I neglected to take a picture of it ...

 Here are all the color swatches for this lesson, laid out, and ready for fusing.

 Here's a closeup of the labels.  Since this is what's been holding me back all these weeks, I finally decided to print them to regular paper and fuse the paper on the wool background.  This will never be washed, so it should be fine.   My printer is just a plain old HP Laserjet.  Not the kind that prints well to fabric.  Although I could have done it with my own handwriting, I wanted it to look a little more refined.  And so, problem solved!

 

Here are some of the blues. Isolated for the fun of it.

Finally done!  Now all that's left is to go through the Conclusion lesson.

Then I'll be able to dye whatever I want whatever color I desire!

I just happen to have a few blank dresses from Dharma.  

Now the hard part is deciding what lucious color(s) do I want?

Decisions! Decisions! Decisions!

If you like what you see, sign up for Candy G's online class : Sign up here.  The class is designed to work at your own pace, so you can sign up anytime.  It's worth it!

2 More Color Wheels : Candied Fabrics Dye Class

 

I finished the color wheels from the Earth and Sky Triads.  It took a week to dye the swatches, and another day to whip up the color wheels.  It was a worthwhile exercise, that forced me to really look at the Candiotic Table.  I feel like I have a whole new relationship with the Tables now that I've looked at them so closely in order to decide what colors to include on the wheels.

Here's they Sky Triad in 2 configurations  (on paper) :

Here's the Earth Triad.  These came out so dark on the blue end, that it might be worth doing this one on the Tints Lesson.  The shades would just be black, black and more black.

I took a common garden variety glue stick and glued the swatches to a piece of creme-colored card stock (because that's what I had on hand).  It occurs to me that a color wheel should probably be on plain white, not cream so as not to distort the colors.   Oh well ....

If you're interested in learning how to do this, Sign up here for the online class with Candy G. at Candied Fabrics.  This is from the Controlling Color 101 Class.   I still have 1 more lesson to do, covering tints and shades. 

See the Color Wheels for the Naturals and Brights Triads.