Saturday's Smile!!

Saturday's Smile!!

Saturday's Smile!!

Saturday's Smile!!

Saturday's Smile!!

Saturday's Smile!!

Saturday's Smile!!

Saturday's Smile!!

Saturday's Smile!!

Ice-Dyed Projects!

I am having so much fun dying all kinds of fabric.  Now I am starting to make some goodies with this gorgeous stuff!!

First, a friend of mine has a new walker and she had a little metal basket that kept falling off when she closed it up to put in the car.  So, I put together a cute, usable bag for her.

I also dyed some little onesies and they turned out pretty cute!

Then I cut up some of the dyed fabric and made some different blocks but they were not too exciting.  I think I have decided that the fabric needs to stay in larger pieces for the most part.  Cutting it up seems to take away the overall beauty.

Well, they say you are never too old!!  So, I decided to try something new.  I applied for the position of the Oregon Territory Sales Rep for :

and I got it!!  We received our training via Zoom yesterday and today; I got my sales tools via UPS this afternoon and I am going to see my first quilt shop on Tuesday after the three day weekend!!

Looking forward to a new season my in life!!

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Saturday's Smile!!

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Veterans' Quilts, Ice Dying and Lorelei

This has been a good week!!  Our Guild is working on the last Alaska Veterans' quilt.  We have been making quilts for almost 2 years for Alaska's Healing Hearts Retreat and the gals at Guild are ready to move onto a new "cause".

This last one is going to be gorgeous!!  Sally was the host for this last quilt.  Guild members make the blocks, she will assemble the top and I will quilt and bind it.  These are the 5 blocks I made for the quilt.

These next pictures show part of the ice dying process ~

The picture below is where I added the dye BEFORE the ice.

And then here are the other 3 containers with ice first and then dye sprinkled on top of the ice.  I wanted to see if there was a difference in the end result using the two different methods.  

After washing out the dye on all the pieces, it seemed like the piece where I sprinkled the dye right on the fabric and then the ice on top was not as bright as the other pieces.  It seemed a little dull.

And here is this week's progress on Lorelei ~

Continuing weekly progress can be seen HERE.

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