Melted Fusion I Sold



Melted Fusion I (sold)  © Diane Hamburg

Sad and happy at the same time.........  This is a piece I ice dyed awhile back and then started to hand stitch it in February.  I finished it and hung it at my local island Art Association.  It's been gracing the gallery walls for 2 months.  Sold yesterday.  How I loved that piece.  I am glad it will be gracing the walls of the buyer's home.

Guess I'd better stitch faster!

Speaking of stitching - here's a work in progress - check earlier blog entries.  Here's what I've done so far.  I sure love this hand word business.  I have many things going.  This one is close to finishing.

Work in Progress

I pieced the leaf printed center awhile back being inspired by someone's work - I'll research that wonderful artist - the fabric behind it is one of the ice dyed pieces my sister and I created a couple of years ago.  I plan on hand couching yarn or ribbon to continue some of the narrow strips with minimal machine stitching .

The image below is another of the ice dyed fabric that I machine stitched a little - I'm in the process of handstitching.  How I am loving the handstitching.  The stitching is quite meditative and addictive. I'm thinking another "man" piece.  Time will tell.

The following image is the beginning of a quilt for grandson, Max.  I'm rethinking the pieced center - maybe just using reds and whites.ell with that as well.

Ice Dyeing

powdered dye on top of ice which was on top of the fabric

My sister just had to take this picture as I was tapping the powdered dye onto the ice.

I just spent a wonderful week with my sister, Marlene, in Auburn, California.  We played/experimented each and every day.  This is our journey into ice dyeing.  What a ball we had.  We soaked our fabric in soda ash.  Then manipulated the fabrics:  folded, tied, scrunched and set it on grates.  Placed ice on top and then sprinkled powdered dye on top.  At the last minute, I put in a treated t-shirt in the bottom of one of the pans.  Had I thought of it sooner, I would have placed clothing/fabric under the other as well.  There was a lot of run-off dye.  We covered the iced fabric to batch overnight.  And voila

This is my favorite!

And here's the shirt.

T-shirt that caught the run-off dye.

This is a technique I will use and use and use.  The fabric is wonderful - I just love the results.  And such an easy technique with such outstanding results!

Stay tuned for more of my sister's and my experiments.