Doing What I Can, When I Can.....

Piece by piece, bit by bit, I'm assembling a respectable inventory for a vendor mall. It's coming together slowly, I have quite a way to go yet, and the event is 4 weeks from tomorrow.

So I'm dyeing like crazy again today, and TRYING to find more hangers that won't cost a small fortune. I have over half my hangers tied up in a store where I consign fabric, so now I'm scrounging to find more. I located an eBay seller who has 25 childrens pant hangers in the style I prefer, and am waiting to hear from him/her as to whether they have 100 or so instead of just 25.

I still have about 120 yards of greige on hand, and will probably dye the majority of it in the next 2 weeks. My tactic of dyeing certain colors all at once is working quite well. Last week, I did a group of yellows, a group of bright greens and a group of reds. Now, I need to work on blues, mossy greens, purples and browns - and some pastels, which are difficult for me.

Then yesterday, Mike put my new hanging rack together for me, and it appears I need to now work on blues and browns and true MULTI. I may try a shaving foam direct painting technique I saw online this week for some of that - perhaps go for some "sky" that would translate into half-yards. But for that type of work, I'd need to get the big, heavy dyeing "tray" out from behind the table.

The pic at left is part of my little "surprise" offering for the vendor mall - cotton underwear, dyed brilliantly. I've been doing these for myself, and certain others for several years - I'll see how it goes trying to sell them. I do need to get a mannequin made/found, tho. Oh, and I think I will dye some solidy colors (of cloth, not skivvies) - maybe in color runs of 4 or 6, and I can get 2 FQ bundles and one set of single halves from each set of yard-lengths. That's easy-peasey dyeing, but it will give me something to sell with the multis that will make everything work well together. This is good for the matchy-uppy people, and there are certainly a few of those around!

And finally - I really have to get booking on a few samples to hang in my space. It's OK to just have the fabric, but samples showing fabric use would be good, too, and I'd better get some done. So, what am I doing sitting here typing stuff that no one but me reads, anyway?? I'm outta here!!