I pieced the back as well, from two pieces of hand-dyes - one of which was long enough but not wide enough, so I inserted a narrowish strip of a different hand-dye down the centre. From Wordnik.com. [Hoorah for traffic!] Reference
Lami, I'm another scarf addict, and to make it worse I hand-dye scarves too, and though some of them are meant for sale, I can't always resist the urge to keep a particular beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Scarves into ?? - A Dress A Day] Reference
Oh, I should also say that for the first time, I've actually used the same piece of fabric for both pages - but as it was a hand-dye, and I picked two very different parts of the fabric, they do look quite different. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
Anne suggested I might be using them as postcard backgrounds if nothing else, and she's right, I often use smaller pieces of hand-dyes in this way - I love the texture a hand-dye gives as a background fabric, so we may well see them used that way in future. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
Can't really show what I worked on today, as I was testing the instructions for the June bag for the BQL bag challenge - but here are a couple of teases - I used some of the fat quarter (not a hand-dye, but a printed fabric made to look like space dyeing) on the left to make the flying geese units on the right. From Wordnik.com. [Bag tease] Reference
'Embellishment with swarovski crystals, the use of other semi-precious stones like amethyst or opal, sequins, mirror-work, embroidery, applique work, screen printing, hand-dye, tie-dye - all techniques are being reinvented on home linen, "says Mandeep Nagi of Shades of India. From Wordnik.com. [HindustanTimes.com - Top HomePage-TopStories News Headlines] Reference
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