Brand New at Painting with Dye Paste!

I've been dyeing my own fabrics for abut a year now, but when I heard about painting with dye paste I had to try it!  Using Ann Johnston's book, "Color By Design" as a guide, I purchased ProPrint Paste Mix and pretty much dove in!

Dye Paste, fiber reactive dye powder, and some painted fabric

 This stuff is the consistency of grape jelly and not very easy to paint with!  I was going for the light red /purple shade in my design; so I mixed (2) colors: lavender and light blue.

Detail of fabric painted with dye paste

 Well, it's not quite what I was looking for!  I was worried about the color getting too dark, 

so I washed the dye out after about 2 hours of letting the dye paste sit on top of the fabric. 

Oh, did I mention that the instructions said to let the dye sit for 4 to 6 hours?   Oh, well... this has been a learning experience.

Wet fabric- after washing out the dye past

I liked the way this looks, but I still had to dry the fabric.

Dry fabric, Wow, look at the loss of color!

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Moonlit Ribbons, Watercolor Pencil drawing 8" x 10"

This drawing is my starting point for a series of 3 new works in textiles, one will be created by using my own hand-dyed fabrics pieced and appliquéd then layered and quilted, the 2nd will be a digital image, and the 3rd will be a painted image, i.e. painted on fabric.

I started cutting fabric yesterday for the background and found out that I need to dye more fabric!  That's today's task.  I'll keep you posted!!