Made of inconsistent

[gurdymonkey]

It's dry, the verdict is in.

Despite what the book said, I got better results with cheap polyester/cotton thread than with pure cotton - I tried both, out of curiosity.

The wood-grain effect looks right, if a bit subtle. I'd like to try it with the poly thread.

What I was hoping would be kanoko has resulted in a bunch of square rings, which came out quite nicely, but weren't what I was shooting for. (How the hell do they get such small dots? YEARS of practice.) I tried using a teeny bamboo knitting needle to help pinch points in the fabric (a linen/rayon remnant) and it poked right through. I suspect this would not be an issue if I were doing this with a nice, tight weave habotai, and I might even be able to get smaller dots as a result.

The tsujigahana is murky, probably because I didn't plug/cap it snugly enough. That one of the pieces of tape came off in my hand right out of the dye bath tells me that the dye bath may have been too warm for the adhesive. Maybe tape it and tie it off over the tape just to be sure? 

How I got a rust stain on it, I cannot figure out....

Disappointed? Hell yeah. Skill level 2, ambition level 9.5, baby, all the way. Set that bar high enough to crash into.

Sigh. Well, winter IS coming.

Comments

[reynardine.livejournal.com]

Hey, it was your first attempt. You tried something, you found out what worked and what didn't, you make notes, you try again. It's a good start!

[takadai-no-tora.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing the results of your first experiment. I have some habotai scarves that I dyed and planned to marble, but never did. They're not very interesting colors, since they were intended as background, but I think I'll use them to try some shibori.

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

It was transparent tape. Painter's tape is even less adhesive - on purpose, so you can get it off the wall.