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Super Dyed Kanzashi Flowers
Extract from Kanzashi in Bloom: 20 Simple Fold-and-Sew Projects to Wear and Give • By Diane Gilleland • Published by Potter CraftAbout
A new twist on traditional Japanese craft!
Playing around with dye colors and patterns, I came up with a nice variety of new fabrics to create some fun Kanzashi flowers.
I started with squares of white cotton fabric that I dyed solid colors and then added shibori folds to some, batik treatments to others and finished off with a little bleach patterns on the rest. Then the fabrics are over-dyed to create some super double color effects.
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Step 3
My next experiment was with a water-based batik resist. Using a fine metal tipped applicator bottle, I simply doodled fun swirliques and dots all over two pieces of fabric that had been previously dyed Lemon Yellow. When the resist dried, I over-dyed one piece in a Petal Pink dye bath and the other in a Tangerine dye bath. The resist is really so much fun because it's just freehand drawing and with the fine tipped applicator bottle, it's easy to get really super details
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Step 4
Now the opposite of the resist technique is a combination of bleaching and over-dyeing. Where the resist technique is based on starting with a light fabric color and adding a design that will block more dye from adhereing, the bleach technique is based on removing color from a dark fabric leaving lightened spaces for a second color to over-dye. Here I dyed the fabric with Purple which is a fairly dark color. Using the fine tip of a bleach pen, I drew stripes and dot patterns across the fabric. When the bleached areas have lightened, the fabric is washed and dried before over-dyeing. I used the Petal Pink for this over-dye.
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Step 5
There was a section of the flower that I wanted to keep a solid color so I chose to dye some fabric Petal Pink with a hint of Scarlet for a nice pop of color. You can see I used those for the bottom petals. Such a sweet color!!
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Step 7
I'm not gonna give the directions of constructing the kanzashi flowers but you can check out the book, Kanzashi In Bloom, where I got my inspiration. The author has a great video tutorial on her site as well.
www.craftypod.com/2009/09/16/now-with-video/Basically, all the petals are individually folded from 2½" or 3" squares and then strung together in one straight line.
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Step 9
Did you notice those sweet matching purple pearl beads in the center of the flowers? Well, guess what, I dyed them too with the same dye! This is a real fun trick to make color coordinated accents for projects. I used 1 Tbsp Purple dye in a small 1cup container and immersed them in very hot dye bath for about 10 minutes or so. After a nice color is achieved, simply rinse them off and dry them.
Easy-peasy and oh, so cute!!
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