Another unfinished creation! I am making this for the Official Writer of The Fabric Giveaway, Linda (Lynn) Jackson. If you click on the image, you will see that I free-motioned two layers of the fabric together to make the vest, then added (with Misty Fuse) some burned shibori. It will now be subjected to lots of machine and hand embellishment before I will call it finished.
Shibori is a traditional tied resist used in fabric dyeing; it just felt right, in this case, to skip the dyeing and roast it like a hot dog over an open flame. Why? Well, the fabric was going to be incinerated, right? So I was curious what that looked like, smelled like, etc. Also, and it's a big also, we in the American West have been having a problem with wildfires the past few years. By mid-summer the air is filled with smoke, the sunrises and sunsets are bright, beautiful, deadly red, and depending on the wind direction, you can see almost part way across town. Normally we can see the Beartooth Mountains from here.
Every one who sees this fabric wants to know how it is done. I will photograph the process and show you, just as soon as I wrap another stick with the fabric.
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