Search Website

Hand-Dyed Quilts

Author: Marquetta Bell-Johnson
Pages: 144
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Publisher: Sterling Publishing
Cover: Soft
Item Code: 4O50200
Weight: 1.40 lb.

20% off: $11.96
MSRP: $14.95

Back Cover Information

Learning how to hand dye fabrics is a natural progression for quilters as a way of further personalizing their work. Even beginners can mix one-of-a-kind colors, for example, or create unique patterns by folding, bunching and tying fabric during the dying process.

With Marquetta Bell-Johnson's special technique, you will use environmentally-friendly diluted air brush fabric paint as an alternative to caustic powdered dye. What's more, you won't need to repeatedly rinse the paint from textiles as you would with traditional dyes.

Bell-Johnson shows you how to dye distinctive fabrics using her method, piece a great quilt top, make a beautiful little quilt and add artistic embellishments like beads. She then gives you twenty spectacular patchwork and appliqué projects that make wonderful gifts and keepsakes, including Nine Patch Potholders, a Sky & Meadow Floor Pillow and a Shadow Block Quilt.

About the Author

Marquetta Bell Johnson was born into a family of tailors and quilters where a working knowledge of basic sewing was expected. She learned to quilt by watching and helping her grandmother, Hattie Battle Miles, as she quilted covers for cold winter nights. As Marquetta matured, her quick wit and curious nature led her down many creative paths that eventually led her back to the family legacy of quilting. Fortunately, the skills she learned on that journey gave her an extensive understanding of color, design, and pattern. A self-taught artist with boundless creativity and imagination, she has benefited by the lessons she learned from other surface design artists and quilters.

Marquetta lives and works in Decatur, Georgia as a teaching artist, producing dyed fabrics, quilts and collectibles. She considers herself a community-minded artist using her creativity to impact the world in a positive way. Marquetta sees every stitch she makes as an act of love with the potential to foster harmony, well-being and peace.

Instruction Page

Blue Blossoms Quilt

House Top Pillow

Spinners

Books, DVDs & Supplies
Fabric Dyeing, Fabric Painting with Dyes, Shibori, Tie Dye & Marbling

Jacquard: Indigo Dye Kit, iDye, iDye Poly & Laundry Aid Color Remover & Sunblock

iDye Colors
Instruction Details on how to use iDyes

Hand Dye Fabric: Some books include projects

Fast Fun & Easy Fabric Dyeing
by Lynn Koolish

Stitching to Dye in Quilt Art
Color, Texture and Distortion
by C June Barnes

Batik: How-to

Shibori Techniques

Dye Fabric & Tie Dye T-Shirts

Fabric Dye used to: Paint, Print, Discharge, Monoprint, Screen Printing, Deconstruct Screen Printing, Stamping, Stenciling & More on Fabric

Also See:
Beaney & Little John (20+ book) Series

Silk Painting using

Silk Dyes & Paints

OUT OF PRINT

Painting Flowers on Silk
by Mandy Southan

Ideas for Fabric Designs & Printing Your Own Fabric

Fabric Swatches & Textures

Books, Books w/ CD or CDs