Natural Surfaces

Welcome to my personal blog and/or notebook about surface design and stitch!  Here I will be posting about my personal journey and challenges for 2014.  Some of this surface design may not be about natural dyeing, as many of you know I also work with fabric paints such as setacolor, inks, oil bars (shiva paintstiks), etc. in addition natual dyes, see photo.

Cutch dyed cotton fabric, fabric paint, shiva paintstiks, acrylic ink, machine stitched.

Currently I'm working mostly with digital printed fabric, now tha twinter is here I will be working in my wet studio once again dyeing fabric with natural dyes. 

Natural Surfaces Challenge

The Natural Surfaces Challenge:

You don't have to be a member of the group in order to participate but it might be easier if you want to be kept in the loop.

Each Tuesday I will post a new challenge topic, challenge pieces are due the following Tuesday:

Requirements are:

At least one natural technique must be used in your process: 18" x 24" to 1 Yard pieces of fabric or paper.

Yes you can combine paper and fabrics together.


You can join the group here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Natural_Surfaces

Natural Processes (And I may add to this list later):

Natural Dyeing
Rust Dyeing
Compost Dyeing
Iron Oxides
Clay Dyeing
Pigment Painting
Encaustic

Participants need to submit a web ready image of their images, along with process information, your name, website/blog link.