An e-publication The Sweet Waste Dyes Guide – Experiment with recycled colours! (20 pages) is out! In the guide we show you the secrets of garbage dyeing, give you instructions of how to make inks and printing pastes, carve some potatoes for printing purposes and pattern some paper – fun and ecological recycling in mind. The guide is made for everyone interested – but especially for teachers and group councelors. We are glad if our guide can be utilised in teaching or any group activities.
Our guide is made to be printed at home. It is shared with Creative Commons licence, which gives permission to share, copy and print it for non-commercial use. Download, share with your friends and have fun!
The Sweet Waste Dyes Guide – Experiment with recycled colours!
Text & pictures: Ulla Lapiolahti and Päivi Hintsanen
Layout: Päivi Hintsanen
Proofreading of the English print: Miia Huttunen and Frankie Robertson
Jyväskylä 2013, Jyväskylä 2015
ISBN 978-952-93-6329-2
The original Finnish booklet (published in 2013) was supported by the Jyväskylä Art and Science Foundation.
You may save the guide to your own computer, print it and share it freely with others. It is forbidden to modify the guide or use it commercially.
I’ve only had this fabric from Joann’s forever (or so it seemed) and I can’t remember just when I bought the pattern but apparently it is out of print now- but still available on the Simplicity website (insert snarky comment about if they ever approve my affiliate with them I could directly link).
The pattern itself was fairly straightforward- it is a mix and match set so the shirt pattern is used also for the dress & the pants and shorts share a pattern. That isn’t uncommon though.
The completed dress
Working on inserting the sleeves. I think sleeve placement is one of those things that makes Baby Jesus cry. I am happy though, only had to rip out one sleeve and redo.
Closeup of the bodice. The rick rack was an additional trim I put on. I had different buttons picked out but someone (/cough the three year old) decided that buttons are her new favorite toy! The next buttons I messed up the buttonholes & made them a touch too small (grumbles). I do like the mix of button styles though. As the photo below shows trying to find 4 matching buttons in my multitude of vintage mason jars filled with buttons is always a challenge.
This vintage filet crochet alphabet was scanned from The New Filet Crochet Book: Original Designs Which May be Used Also for Cross-stich and Beadwork, With patterns Represented in a New Way, by Hugo W. Kirchmaier, preface & instructions by Anna Wuerfel Brown, Published by Cora Kirchmaier 1912
Posted on lokakuu 14, 2015 Kirjoittanut Päivi Hintsanen