Stained Glass
Last week I was at a Church camp for youth who are considered leaders or future leaders in the Methodist church. They are all truly inspiring. Each one has talents and abilities but most of all they have the most amazing compassion. I feel so fortunate to have shared a week with them each summer for the past four years.
Since I had promised myself I would keep up with this blog, I had typed out posts in advance and set them to publish at a later date. If the Stained Glass scarf below looks familiar, that is because I meant to have it post on July 10 – I accidentally typed June 10. Oops!
So, here it is again (if you’ve already read it).
This was my experiment with mixing colors. To this point, everything I had made had more pastel colors. I was going for darker jewel-tone type colors in this. People tell me it looks kind of like stained glass. I drew the shapes free handed. My only consideration was to keep them about the same size.
The water soluble resist had been dyed black. As you can see, all the color washed out. That was frustrating! It was fun mixing the colors but they didn’t really come out the way I thought they would once they had dried.
Lessons learned: mix the colors much darker than you think you need.
The good news is – this scarf will go with just about anything. I think it is one of my favorites to date.
Rainbows in Waterfalls 