Sometimes you need a lot of Jabberwocky genius to join disparate elements into any kind of intriguing whole. Or perhaps you just need rhyming couplets. I have neither, but I do have string and bias binding. I blame India Flint for infecting me with her enthusiasm for twining string. I loved doing it with plant leaves, but it required pre-planning. String from fabric shreds… you just decide it’s time and get going!
I have shaggy string from my pyjama-making jag a while back.
However, Wendi of the Treasure suggested silk string. And then along came an opportunity to dye silk all kinds of wild colours. I took up some silk paj that was among my very first Eco-Colour adventures. It took colour then, but not in any really riveting way, and it has been in the cupboard awaiting a new idea for some years. Wendi’s was the new idea. When it hit my workshop dye pots, the original onion skin and eucalypt dyed portions created all kinds of interesting effects.
Thanks to Wendi and India, I now have logwood-dyed string so deep purple it is almost black, madder-dyed orange string, and cochineal pink string.
But there is more… I have had some ties unpicked, ironed and ready to be made into bias binding for years. What can I say? I have been engaged in a task in relation to my day job so mind numbingly dull that I realised the time for bias binding making was upon me, all of a sudden! The existing collection of tie-bias binding was getting low.
I now have this…
And this… so if I am struck by the urge to create garments again soon, I’ll be able to create beguiling interior details in a heartbeat.
Mercifully, my marking is over, too.
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I am just completely in awe of all you create and produce….
(and I seriously wonder about the creator of that blue tie with the creepy dancing figures on it!!! eeek)
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Thanks! Thought I have to say bias binding is pretty straightforward if you have the right tools. The mysterious blue figures are the bananas in pyjamas! They are a feature of children’s TV on our national public broadcaster. Not creepy at all. Rather funny, in fact. They are often sighted at protests when attempts to cut finding to the national broadcaster are made. Sorry to have creeped you out, but I promise it’s just silliness…
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obviously I just have gutter brain…of course they’re bananas in pyjamas.
: )
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🙂
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Wow…. love all that silk string well done you 🙂 do you have any idle moments ?
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Thanks, Wendi! I guess most of the time I am not that interested in idleness. I love to fidget, I mean, create 🙂
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Mmmm sounds familiar…..!
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I expected as much!
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I’m waiting to see how you use the “Bananas in Pajamas” (which I am well acquainted with seeing as my t.v. only shows children’s programs and sports…..faulty thing!).
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