Teri Tea-Dye

   I am making Teri for our October Retreat.  Our theme this year is "Rustic and Ragged."  Attendees may choose from rugs, rag dolls, Christmas quilt, raggedy purse, and more.  In order to teach all these items at once, I need to make samples and troubleshoot the patterns or the ideas.  Well, I have the rugs all made (see "Rug Twining"), but the others are works in progress. 

   Teri is a typical rag doll made from muslin.  I got inspiration from a Christmas doll in one of the Austrailian  magazines.  I easily made Teri from muslin and then decided she would look more rustic and natural if she were tea dyed.  The proper method would have been to tea dye the muslin first, but then, that would be easy and not much of an adventure. So, when I realized that Teri needed a tea bath, I got out my trusty camera to photograph her along the way --- sort of a "photojournal of Teri's transformation." Maybe you and a friend can do it this way, too.  (Of course, I could have finished Teri and loaned her to a 2 year old for a week or so and the "muddied" effect would have been done for me!) Just click on Teri's photo album and follow the sequence.