Hand-dyed Silk

Wanted to share some pictures of some of the hand-dyed silks I've done.  These are all lengths of white kimono silk I dyed using various shibori techniques, mostly with acid dyes from Dharma. As they're all just odd lengths, I'm not sure what to do with them, maybe make pieced scarves.

Shibori baby quilt

I actually finished something: a quilt for a baby shower.  The squares are 14", roughly the width of kimono fabric.  The light blue swirling patterned fabric is indigo-dyed cotton from west Africa, as is the dark blue fabric with "smoke rings".  The 2 pieces with what looks like small dots are Japanese yukata fabric, and the one piece with a floral pattern may be Chinese.  All are hand-dyed indigo shibori.

The African indigo-dyed textiles are "Adire", Japanese is "aizome".

The back of the quilt is vintage cotton kimono fabric, and the binding is cotton lining from another kimono. The batting is some red cotton flannel from the stash, just enough for this project.  After washing and dryer-ing the flannel, it didn't seem to shrink, but it did full, so even better!

Detail of front

Front

Back of Quilt

Detail of back

The quilt was well-received!  On to the next project ...