This dress is not new, but I’ve never photographed it before. The inspiration was an article about using tie-dye and resist techniques and household bleach for color-discharging dark fabrics. On thing led to another and I experimented with all sorts of hues, then began putting color back in after I took it out. This dress was supposed to have only a line of pansies , but the bleach bled into the fabric and gave a wonderful shaded effect that made me think of graduated heights of flowers in a border garden.
Edited 9/4/2002 4:15:26 PM ET by Tish
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Lovely, Tish!
Thanks, Jean. Say, this picture posting is a real wait and see enterprise isn't it? Do you knit while you're waiting for pictures to upload?
I have a fast computer and a cable connection so I really don't have time to knit or file my nails. It's very quick.
Tish, that's really pretty. What a great use of a variety of techniques in a single garment!
Carol
How do you get so much done??? The dress is lovely and the shadowy effect is beautiful. Misty spring morning. rjf
Well, I got that dress done several years ago. I really went crazy on that one. That was the project that made me give up on commercial stencils and begin cutting my own. I wanted and needed delphiniums and was not going to back down! I have a few more painted dresses, but they are not bleached first. I have one with spring flowers, similar this one but with tulips too, and a summer wildflowers dress with barn swallows on the frint and back bodice. Designing and cutting the stencils takes a lot of time, but the painting is fun.
Thanks for the nice compliments!
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