feels like fire
Originally uploaded by Zenith Phuong
This gorgeous photo by is my inspiration for the Project Spectrum Challenge on flickr. For the challenge this year there are 4 color combos each based on one of the four elements fire, earth, water, and air. Each element gets two months so everyone can have a chance to finish. Most of the group are knitters but there are no limits to media just color/concept so I figure there is room for some Shibori. First up is Fire using Red, Orange, Yellow and Pink . I totally love this kind of challenge, open ended, lots of room for interpretation just fun. I will try something a bit more ambitious than I've done in awhile, designing two coordinating fabrics for a particular sewing project...probably a garment. I feel fairly confident about dyeing. However this will require a larger piece of fabric than I've attempted before and that always creates a few challenges. I am less confident about the construction part, I haven't sewed a garment in a while. But I'm getting ahead of myself... I think it will be fun to take part and I encourage everyone out there to join in with their own fire inspired projects!
Hi there! I'm new to Shibori and have pretty much become obsessed. *smile* I would like to participate in your new challenge, if I may. One question though...are you requiring that people use the color pink with the other 'fire' colors?
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Thistlehart
P.S. I think all of your Shibori projects are simply gorgeous and very inspiring to newbies like myself.
Hi thistleheart!
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I'm so happy you want to play too!
The Project Spectrum web site is:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/project_spectrum/
it is over at Flickr... I don't know if you have an account there but they are free so its no big deal...I'm not actually running it just playing along and I just realized today that the color Yellow isn't a part of the fire challenge...However they dont seem to be very strict about such things so I don't think you have to use all the colors. I say just go for it and I can't wait to see what you come up with!