Pictures from yesterdays disperse dye session

These are just a few of the samples I did yesterday with my group. The idea was to show them different techniques and ways of getting different effects. I shall use these pieces either to free machine over, do machine embroidery on, or to cut out for applique shapes. I have some large pieces that I did with fishy scenes. I dyed the fabric first and being a poly/cotton the colour was weaker and then I used disperse dyes as transfer prints to weed and fishes onto it. I shall then, eventually stitch over and couch thicker threads on it and in the fullness of time it will become a wallhanging! Once I get started it won't take long as I work really quickly when the adrenaline is flowing. Of course it would have been an idea to iron these pieces before taking pictures! But then that would be too simple!