Rust-Tex

Mono Print #1 Mono Print #1 Detail 10" x 56" 100% China Silk Signed by the artist Rust-Tex Scarf $90.00 USD Shipping US: $5.00 ...

Today's picture is 5 of the 9 bottles I set out Monday night that Mother Nature is keeping wet for me. I have 7 quilts to complete by Ju...

Mother Nature did her job well today providing light rain intermittently all day. When I checked the bottle wraps, after dinner and before g...

Here is one of the two scarves I have ready to post. You can see from the photo styling and cropping that it is going to take me a while to ...

I am going to post pictures of the finished scarves tomorrow. Today was just too full of other stuff, for me to do any more than this on my ...

Yesterday was the PERFECT day for rust dyeing!!! It was hot and dry. I finally got black out of the iron pot dye baths. I was beginning to t...

The first picture shows how much rain came down at dinner time yesterday. It was an empty cup before the rain started!!! The second cup show...

I was working all day in the studio trying to catch up on the paperwork. I knew my dear husband was planning on watching TV all evening (las...

I think my "bundle of joy" should get birthed this week-end. I would like to see a lot more staining on the outside of the bundle ...

Another busy day spent not in the dye studio. So I am posting a picture of a small wallhanging I made with Rust-Tex fabric. I call it "...

The rain has finally stopped!!! But I didn't have much time to dye anything this week-end as Friday we garage sailed and Saturday we wen...

Here is a detail shot of the bundle of dandelions and stuff I wrapped up yesterday. You can why I called todays post "Bundle of Joy...

Between the sheets of rain and the sheets of fabric is what today post is about. I was able to work in the dye studio between the rain show...

It was raining today. Sometimes it stopped . Between showers I got a chance to set out some "trees fabrics". The designs should ta...

I haven't been able to work outside all week because of the rain. To be able to plan my Rust-Tex adventures for the upcoming week, I tho...

This is a piece I made using Rust-Tex that was a very white fabric to start with. I laid it on a really rusty cookie sheet so only parts of ...

Today I went to the Professional Art Quilter's Alliance (PAQA) meeting in Glen Ellyn, IL. Because this was the closest meeting to the d...

I have been so busy lately that I haven't had time to post. One Rust-Tex related thing that took up a lot of my time this week was clean...

I went out early this morning to get the newspaper and I found this great piece of rusty iron on the fence post!!! One of the neighbors mus...