help me I am in fabric hellllllMore feathers - I don’t

[momijizukamori]

help me I am in fabric hellllll

More feathers - I don’t have the energy for a full write-up but basically, for whatever reason, the batch of feathers we got do not want to take up dye. All the tutorials are like ‘just swish them around for a few minutes’, and the two left hand groups in that photos were in the dye baths for a good two hours. The ones on the right I left soaking overnight and then heated up, which finally actually made them more or less the right color and shade.

In sewing, trying to stitch cording in an even geometric pattern across a surface that curves in more than one direction is… basically impossible, really, but you can fudge the sizing some. After a few attempts at laying it out with pins or straight edges, I made a little square of card (actually a business card I had in my wallet, I was in class and going stir-crazy), and started marking out the corners with loops of thread. Tedious, but it works. I have about half the cord down - hopefully I can get the rest done tomorrow. I also turned and ironed the hems of the scalloped underskirts. They still need to be painted, but they’re looking pretty good.

Finally, some fabric porn from my better camera - like I said before, my point and shoot doesn’t really capture the colors (for ex, look at the corset photos), and even the DSLR doesn’t get the full depth of the dupioni in a single shot. But man, is it gorgeous.

Comments

[batrachian]

OH AUGH! deepest sympathies.

(any chance there's something on the feathers themselves? just a thought)

Topology is a complicated thing.

*cheerleads*

[momijizukamori]

Yeah, we're pretty sure it's something on the feathers - either a natural oil or something left over from however they were processed. If I hadn't managed to get a dark color by letting them soak I was going to try washing them with a detergent. Thankfully, while it takes a while, I don't have to actually watch them while they soak, just weigh them down and do something else.

I mean, mathmatically there's probably a way to do this but it would be time-consumming and not necessarily visually pleasing, so I'm settling for doing it by eye. Particularly because once it's boned and laced up the panels will probably shift somewhat.

The cheerleading is appreciated, one of the other members for this group reblogged this on tumblr and was like 'TWO WEEKS TO GO' and I was just like 'god don't remind me'.