Name Tags for Days

When the last week in May gets here, QSDS will start up and I'll need lots of soda-soaked fabric for printing. So, name tags made of tyvek will be sewn on to the yards before I add the soda ash to the fabric. And might need more fabric, too, my favorite being Test Fabric's #419 cotton. 
 

Starting With White

When asked about my printing, the question of 'what do you start with' is often asked. I try not to scrunch up my face in that "what?" look, and answer that it is just plain white cotton. Here it's drying after being soda-soaked in preparation for printing. I soak, let drain, then hang. 
 

Rolling Along

No, these aren't toilet rolls for the next pandemic wave. These are four rolls of five hundred meters of pfd cotton. Somehow last order of 300 went without blinking. So, it was time to add to the stash. Each class I teach takes 15 yards myself. I've counted about 8 classes so far before winter. 
 

Why Wait?

A 1926 advertisement gives us the cost of their fabrics. I'm guessing it's by-the-yard prices. The types of fabrics are lost to me -- PRINTED WITCHERY CREPE, FETE SILK, FASHEEN'S, INDIAN HEAD SUITING, not to mention AMOSKAG RAYONELLE. I'll stick to Test Fabrics cotton PFD #419.
 

110 Yards of Fun

I usually order a 100 meter roll at a time. But a slip of the tongue had me accepting 500 meters. No problem, it will get printed in no time. Come November!

Find One You Love

I've landed at Quilting by the Lake at the Onondaga Community College just south of Syracuse to sell fabrics for a week. I make my prints using a tight weave, so I've taken note to make one like this for Donna in a looser (Test Fabric's 400) weave.

More In The Works

Back to the wet studio and printing. I've got a few scarves to make. I use Test Fabric's silk crepe de chine, and I process it just like the cotton. It's soda soaked, dried, printed, washed the next day with hot hot water, then hung to dry, pressed, sewn and ready for someone to love.