Low water immersion dyeing

As a family we eat about 5 (organic whole wheat) loafs of bread a week. Those 5 bread come in plastic breadbags and I keep those bags for second use. We all take our bread in breadboxes, so those bags accumulate. Last night I did need a breadbag, so I looked in the closet and found two breadbags filled with breadbags. That is a ridiciulous amount of breadbags, and I still had a lot of white fabric and a lot of mixed dye, so I decided to do some "low water immersion dyeing", which took me all morning.  This are the fabrics I dyed:

This is what I learned:

1. It might environmentally more friendly to use recycled breadbags, it is not advisable, because almost all bags leak, resulting in a terrible mess.
2. Plastic bags melt if you microwave them too long.
3. I meant to make series of different colours, but because I added the dye directly to the fabric without mixing it first, the colours didn't mix properly and I eded up with four series of quite similar looking fabrics.
4. Because of the leaky breadbags, I couldn't squeeze the bags properly which caused quite uneven distribution of the dye which resulted in quite busy fabrics.

Tree in the snow.

This is my journalquilt for december. It is called tree in the snow. We have had a lot of snow over here, so I wanted to do something with that. I also wanted to try and make a quilt that has no squared off edges. I pieced the background out of three pieces of handdyed fabrics, the tree is embroidered by machine and the wisps of mist are strips of scrim and organza.

Margeeth from the Netherlands

 Hi, I am Margeeth and I live in the Netherlands. I seriousely began quilting 13 years ago and started making traditional quilts. I am quite fond of scrapquilts, and made a lot of them using simple shapes like this quilt (which was donated to charity):

but I also made quilts like this one:

After a while, I wanted more, so I began making modern quilts. At first I used commercial fabrics,

but soon I was dyeing my own fabrics and doing surface design on them:

This is me:

I am a member of several groups that sparkle my creativitity, like abstract challenge,

the dutch journalquiltgroup Afier, ARTfor12, ArtQuiltsAroundTheWorld, De Uitdaging, the dutch fibermailgroup: 

 and I also have my own blog.

I hope I will develop my artquilting, but I am also still making more traditional work, like scrapquilts, but also a Dear Jane.

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