Rust-Tex

I will be vending at the Prairie Star Quilters Guild show this week-end. Come and see Rust-Tex fabric in the cloth, because it is so much be...

To answer the comment left on the last post, "Is there something you can do to the tannin effect so that it doesn't wash out if you...

It seems I am fated to grow crystals this week in the Rust-Tex Dye Studio. All day yesterday there was a strong dry wind blowing and it was ...

In the bright sunlight and hot weather on Labor Day, I exposed a maple leaf from the yard to blueprint fabric . Today I wanted to see what w...

Can you believe it is Labor Day already? Where did the summer go? If this is September 1st, Quilt Expo in Madison, WI must be right around t...

This past winter I bought a chunk of polyester double knit at Savers. The previous year I had rust dyed a polyester scarf and thought the wa...

The picture today is the results of the bottle wrap I did on that strange bottle from a garage sale pictured in the last post. It is not a...

...not me. I have been busy with my sick friend and lots of other things that unfortunately keep me out of the rust dye studio. I did ventur...

Saturday was the prefect day for rust dyeing and I was planning on doing that after lunch. The morning was reserved for the UFO Club workda...

The marriage of our eldest daughter was on August 2nd. It was a themed wedding held outdoors. The theme was, The Pirate and the Princess. He...

My good friend Theresa from Washington, DC, is here for our eldest daughter's wedding. So she and my studio companion, who was named af...

Someone email me this question today: "When you're working at home...do you use plastic bags? I couldn't decide whether it was ...

Today I got an email from someone asking me the longevity of rusted fabric. She wanted to know if it will last 1 year or 5 years? And can it...

I finally finished that commission I started back in January. The person this was made for came to pick it up and she was thrilled!!! I was...

Here is how I decorate the fence that lines one side of our property, and here is the Rust-Tex fabric I rinsed out that day drying in the s...

I have been experimenting with combining a shibori technique and the Rust-Tex Trees Technique. Shibori is a Japanese word for shaped resists...

I have been rust dyeing. I have just not been posting. I have been experimenting with shibori rust dyeing. Using a variation of the trees t...

I am Bonnie McCaffery's vidcast this month!!! Picture of Lois and her new best friend She recorded this in my booth at International Q...

These fish scales are from the cast iron pan I showed in my last post. They transfered from the pan to the cloth very nicely. So I thought I...