Retrospective (10/14)
Patch #278 Shibori butterfly wing
Original Post
What if I tried doing shibori with Inktense pencils? Couldn't find anything when I searched Google and Pinterest.
So I tried wrapping a small bit of blue linen on a tiny Cracker Barrel maple syrup jar. Scrunched it down, spritzed it with water, then layered on some blue, green, and gray ...
Then I stitched up another bit ...
gathered it ...
spritzed it with water and hit the edges with black. Here's how it looked after being rinsed and pressed ...
I think it has potential. Now if I can just figure out how best to imitate these beauties on the mistflower ...
which Don just identified as queen butterflies by checking the Wildflower Center website ...
