One of my favorite fabrics to work with is silk noil. Which is why this material is usually my first choice to hand-dye when the opportunity presents itself.
The piece below was ice-dyed which yielded less of a all over color mixture than is usual. It was a fairly large piece and thankfully a section was cut to use for another project. I say thankfully because this is a MESS.
Lesson learned....come back tomorrow to see what I'm doing on the other half of this fabric.
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Well, now it's just a background waiting to be cut into small pieces, have a little floral applique fused on or a few beads and put in the shop. Small pieces usually do well, don't they? Or cut floral shapes out of it and put on a different background. Hard to totally set aside lots of hard work like that!
Oh Kathy.....you give this piece way too much credit.....rescue def. not worth the effort. However, hopefully I'llI be using the unstitched portions as binding for the section I thankfully removed before starting on this one.
Oh, yes, King Tut is a thick thread - great for quilting but not so much for silk. It is hard to give up on a project, but using the unstitched part for binding sounds like a fine idea.
Live and learn department! I'm a lot quicker to let go of things that don't work out than I once was. But it's still not easy!
I really like the red/maroon area!!! Looks great....another project we'll be anticipating the results!
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