This is another using bleach to achieve the design. I did all of these before the class to show the ladies what they could do even though they might not have access to fabric dye. Most of them live in mud huts, but every one has a bottle of bleach. Most of my projects for the class also were an example of what NOT to do or how to fix the problem when you did DO whatever that was. This shirt started out bright red. I stitched a heart design and then used rubber bands to bunch the bottom and shoulders into a loose circular pattern. Here, I didn't keep my thread pulled tight enough and you can see at the top right of the heart on the outside row, the points fade away because the bleach was allowed to reach those spots. Because your eye fills in the line, it is not a major problem, but I will definitely make sure not to let that happen again.
hmmm, that shirt looks familiar! Looks like a Fine shirt for the original owner :-D tee-hee, just kidding ;-)
ReplyDeleteEven after all your examples, it is still shocking to me that it works! The final projects are very nice but it seems like quite the challenge to get it right. I am impressed!