Sandy of Quilting For The Rest Of Us and I decided to have ourselves a little challenge this winter. We are both in very snowy locations and we enjoy snow dyeing fabric. The problem that arises from making these pretty snow dyes is that we find ourselves not wanting to cut into them. I imagine a lot of people feel the same way as snow dyeing is a full day process. In order to move ourselves past this issue, we decided to have a challenge whereby we had to use at least one of our dyed fabrics in a project by March 15th. It turns out we both got excited enough about the challenge to finish it early. Sandy posted her finish yesterday, click here to see it. It’s beautiful and I love the story that goes along with it.
I should say that Sandy officially finished hers and I completed my quilt top but I still have to do the actual quilting on it.
From the minute we discussed using snow dyes, all I could think about was the Snowball Block. I decided to make something I would really be able to see the dyes in and also something functional so that I could see them every day! I pulled out most of my snow dyes and threw in a few low immersion dyes and made a table runner.
The colors of the fabrics made me think about stained glass and I thought black sashing and borders would make those colors stand out.
The fabrics that are low immersion water dyes are the pink one and the two blues.
I’m not sure how I will go about quilting this because I like to see the snow dye fabric without any stitching going through it. This might be a stitch in the ditch affair. Since it will be staying at my house and not going to anyone, I think I can live with that even though part of me always wants to add some background stitching.
I’m glad we did the challenge and now I think I’ll have less fear about cutting into my dyes in the future. Thanks Sandy!
3 responses to “Snow Dye Challenge Reveal”
Beautiful colors. I’m glad you got the courage to cut into them. I think you’ll have enough snow this winter to dye as much as you want.
I love this, Sandi. It really does look like stained glass–what a great way to show off the dyed fabrics! This challenge really did make us both get over that hump of not wanting to cut into our pretty pretty fabrics–I’m so glad. You’re always so much fun to do challenges with–thanks for once again being such a willing playmate!
This is wonderful and a great way to showcase your pretty fabrics. I would stitch in the ditch, given how you plan to use it. If you really feel you need more an echo stitch 1/3 or 1/2 way in would work. My thoughts.