How to Embroider a Tie Dye (Dyeing to Stitch Pt 2)

Following on from our practical Tie Dyeing lesson in March of this year, we could not wait to see what ideas our Teacher for the night, Sue Bennet, had come up with to decorate the results of our dyeing experiments. 
Here is the table with all the lovely coloured threads waiting for us to dive into; along with the embroidered results of Sue's Tie Dyeing that is being photographed to provide inspiration later (I left this photo unedited as B is wearing such a lovely jumper!)

The Bulls Eye

A piece of dyed Scrim has been sewn into the centre and embellished with white and matching green French Knots. Fly Stitches and Herring Bone surround these with a little machining on the outside.

The Folded Triangle

The dye is still strong enough after the Tie Dyeing is done, to use to colour various threads and small scraps of fabric. There pieces of dyed Aida are embellished with Woven Spiders Web.

Wrapped

This was the piece that was wrapped (above) it has small white circles that have been embellished with French Knots, Blanket Stitch and Needle Weaving over buttons.

The Kebab

The Kebab dyed piece lent itself to free machine embroidery with a variegated thread used around the yellow marks.

The Spiral

Perhaps my favourite after the Bulls Eye, the Spiral looks wonderful adorned with Couched Threads and French Knots and some small beads. Just love the swirly 'ness' of it!

Gathered

More free machine around the piece that was gathered and suggested flowers to our stitcher.

What will you do with your Tie Dyed pieces? Take a look at a few of the WIPs that were stitched during the evening workshop in May; in the next post.

Till then - Happy Stitching ( and Dyeing).

APOLOGIES for the strange white lines around the last few sentences - Blogger is playing games as I have edited them 5x as the text appeared blue. Enough is Enough.....