Today's project

Since I have two long-term beeding projects and a multi-panel 3D graphics project going (I finished up three beeswax candles), I thought I'd take a break and stamp/paint some t-shirts. T-shirts are quick, easy and mindless. Two down and two to go. :o) I'll get around to the polyclay, RSN.

Arondelle

Enjoy. Whether you stick to the plan, or decide to improvise :-)

Deirdre

Well, I improvised a bit. I wound up with some weird looking UFO shaped beads painted with a wash of dark blue, with a purple spiral and a hint of red. And I made a few oval and tube shaped beads to go with, and a few square-shaped beads.

Not sure what can be made with this set but I ended up with a total of 17 beads and it took the whole darned day. I was still putting lacquer on at

10:30 last night :) I did have fun with it!

Laura

Hope you had a good time making those shirts. Sounds like fun :)

Laura

Yup! The older I get, the more I try to cling to my youth, when tie-dye was all the rage -- the first time. Well, we didn't have all the cool paints back then, so now I can go really nuts.

I'm also waiting on some fiber-reactive dyes from Dharma Trading -- combine tie-dye with stamping. Mmm.

Of course, this all too informal to go with the beading jewelry -- so I'm going to look like a fleamarket gone nuts the next time I go to the grocery store. :-D

Arondelle

LOL, I am wearing a bright orange and white tie dyed shirt at this very moment :-)

Laura

I love tye dye and had a great shirt that a guy in KC did that was black with a guitar on the front and the back looked like a spinal column and pelvis bones. It now is full of holes I wore it so much.

Lately I've been taking my stained and spotted solid t shirts, I'm always splattering my self with cooking stuff that won't come out, usually leaving a grease like spot, and wetting them and just hanging them in the shower and spraying away with a weak bleach solution, making a tye dye look of all one color in various intensities. It's easy and makes those shirts wearable again. Since it's not multicolor, beads show up fine. be sure and rinse well and hang dry. They do fine in the laundry with all the rest of the stuff. I also tried the Koolaid tye dye but it didn't do much or stay well.

Susan W

Congrats! Now, of course, there will be a demand for pictures...

Deirdre

10:30 last night :) I did have fun with it!<

All right, Laura! Time sure flies when you're having fun!!

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And that's the most important part! - Fun.

Kathy K

I was still putting lacquer on at

That primative look is one of the charms of clay work. Lessee, lemmee see.

Tina

Weeeel, okay... I managed somehow to lose one of the small beads between home and here. Maybe it's still hanging at home! But here are the rest of them:

's a top view; they'll hang a bit differently of course. I could use some help with something here, any of the polyclay people might be able to advise. Since I'm painting and laquering over white clay, and since I'm sticking the beads on a wire in order to apply the paint and lacquer and then letting them hang there to dry, I will sometimes get this flaky white center on one side of the bead when I remove them-- usually if the wire is very tight in the hole.

You can see it mainly on the little square beads here. It may be that the only way to avoid this is to make the holes bigger and properly hang them (those little ones were sort of impaled :) but if anyone else has an idea, it would be good to hear it.

Laura

They look like they'd be fun to use.

Tina

Laura

Laura

Looking forward to it. And 'rough' is likely to be very appealing, if that is the style that speaks your language.

Deirdre