Don't these colours look great together?  This photo was taken whilst the fabric was still wet and they have dried much lighter, but still good usable colours.  I was a bit naughty and did not pre-wash this fabric before I dyed them, it doesn't seem to have had any noticeable effect on the final product, but from this photo, it appears that there are some tiny undyed bits.

I'm still up to my ears in lecture notes.  My module was postponed until next week which has given me more time to procrastinate.  I really hate study, I much prefer to 'learn by doing' and the preparation for this 4 hour teaching job has been a bit torturous for me.  Oh well.  I could have used the crappy notes which were supplied to me, but in the end I couldn't subject the students to them, so I chose to start from scratch.  I suspect it will be easier to lecture from my own material anyway.

This weekend Riscy and I are going to Melbourne for my employer's dinner dance and other Melbourne goodness.  We are going to stay with my old friend Lynne and her partner so it should be a good social weekend.

These fabrics were wet when I took this photo. They are much lighter dry.

You would not believe it.  I actually dyed some fabric!

A lot of them will be overdyed (especially those pukey orangey pinks on the right - bleh), although I'm partial to the lavendery and bluey fabric in the middle.

I have had this blog for around a year and a half now and I am ALWAYS suprised when people I know mention that they read it. Real people read this blog? How alarming!! LOL

When I write here I have a fuzzy idea of who I'm writing for.  She is someone interested in textiles and fibre, art perhaps, maybe older than me, with children and someone, probably, with political and religious views that I don't share (but that's ok, I can deal with that.  As long as we don't have to argue about it).  The main thing is that the person I'm writing for does not know me.

Which is dumb.  Because I know that Carol, Monica and Danielle drop by here occasionally (hi guys).  And I think Frank reads this sometimes (because I bagged the book his wife loaned me and then she read where I blogged about it and I felt terrible, 'cause I would never intend be insulting, but perhaps my post was... a bit, not nice).

AND to top things off.  Riscy's internet game buddy 'Shaker' passed on a compliment about my hair do.  Ummm I think this dude is about as far away from my imaginary audience as you can get.... Shaker, do you have a secret interest in quilts?  Come on, admit it.  You really want to give up your war simulation games and surrender to the sewing machine.  Make Quilts NOT War.  

I utterly detest those fucking computer games by the way.  (I don't think my imaginary audience appreciates the colour of my everyday language, so that was a taste).  Isn't there enough killing and violence going on without you guys wasting your youth and your prime living years pretending to kill each other over the internet? For fuck's sake! (just to round it off)

I dyed some pastel fabric

This is my favourite cropped part of the photo and maybe used for a quilt at some stage. The square grids were created when running my dye soaked sponge roller over the fabric with an upturned ice tray underneath.

Mucking around with some dye and thickener (which was too thin!) This is part of a larger piece of fabric.

Fabric dyed. I'll use two of theses pieces for the Dredger quilt. The gusty breeze made this shot fun to take.