Painting My Own Fabric

I am making a silk swing top with a tie neck for a friend.  After making two of these blouses for myself from silk charmeuse, I decided I'd like to paint my own silk and make a blouse.  Here are a few pictures of my progress:

Laying out the pattern I made.  I started with a rectangle of washed silk charmeuse.

I used an air soluble marking pen to freehand an iris and other designs.  I then used the serti technique to outline my designs (this stops the dye from traveling)

Added color with silk dyes.  You can also see that I used sea salt.  This attracts color...so, there are color runs and migrations and spots that are attracted to the salt crystals.

It has dried several hours at this point.

Beginning the painting.

A JoAnn's fabric

Another JoAnn's fabric