CALYX 3 - silk scarves

I also have Eco Dyed silk scarves (sun dyed with plant material from my garden)...

 

And Silk Devore scarves with a rayon top layer for extra shimmer...

And silk scarves that were monoprinted with leaves and feathers...

Calyx is back!

Another fall, another Calyx sale!

A juried art show and sale where 30 different artists show separately on each day.

I am only there on SATURDAY, October 20th...

www.calyx.ca

Here is a small selection of my offerings...

SILK SCARVES - each of these colourways has 3 different styles of scarves, so there are over 50 scarves pictured here.

more images coming...

 Unfortunately I will not be able to attend the Edmonton sale this year - very sad to be missing all my friends and family who always come out to see me there.

Summer dyeing fun!

I have been in town for only 3 days this whole month of August, with most of my time spent at our cabin in a coulee on the Albertan Prairies. But out there I have been doing a lot of dyeing of silk scarves!

Even though it was 30c out, I sacrificed and stood over a pot of boiling water watching magic happen...

When I got home I laid them all out on the back deck in their colourways... in each pot I had from 2 to 4 different scarves (silk velvet or silk rayon or solid silk). Look carefully at the piles and see if you can identify which is which.

But my favourite part of all this was that I had a new dye - black - that I used for the backgrounds and got some great colour combinations to go with it. I was very happy with all of my results!

Summer Dyeing continues

The last dyeing I posted was at the beginning of August, opening the lovely jars of 'eco' surprises... I then had the opportunity to go out to our summer cabin alone for a week and do some 'regular' dyeing.

Using my favourite "Alter Ego" dyes on silk and rayon devore scarves, I got some lovely results. All in preparation for fall Art Sales selling silk scarves.

Laying out and sorting the blank white scarves:

Bubbling pots of luscious colour. The left will be green and purple, the right will be golden yellow and lemon yellow:

Some results drying gently in the shade:

Then I was throwing everything into the pots: wool blankets, silk and cotton threads, doilies, linen napkins...

 

 

The final scarf results:

 

 

 

And my helpers out there...
Bluejay -->

Goldfinch -->

and the Hairy Woodpecker-->