Trying not to get high while crafting

Here I go starting an Etsy store and I get distracted and don't post anything for people to actually read. Sorry about that.

I'm sure you noticed the interesting title. Well that is exactly what I had to do last month. Ann, a lovely lady from my spinning guild, had some beautiful fabric with her at the meeting. She said she made it by drawing with sharpies on the fabric and then dropping/painting/dribbling rubbing alcohol onto it. Inconceivable! So I had to try. I dug out some scraps of white fabric and got to work doodling. I definitely need a better workspace for it. She said she used a sheet of plastic to work on. That would have been a good idea. Oh and this craft requires excellent ventilation. Just imagine the fumes of sharpies and rubbing alcohol. I opened the window quite quickly. I need to play more to try and get some better results, but I think it turned out pretty well.

This was the first thing I tried. It has a lot of color, because I wanted to see what colors I could get from the different markers. Most colors are made up of many other colors and I didn't know how it would break down when the alcohol hit it. So this one was an experiment.

This one turned out pretty well. I think I got the right amount of drawing on the piece. so there wasn't a lot of white space, but everything stayed rather separate. I think this piece is going to be turned into a project bag. Maybe it will end up in the Etsy store.
This last project was fun. I had a piece of sheer material that I had from when I tried to do some wet felting (fail). I had done a small test piece and really liked the way the colors ran. So I had a big piece and decided that I would turn it into a shawl/wrap. I have a couple weddings to go to this spring and now I just need a dress. So I colored on it for a while. But then came the dilemma of the rubbing alcohol. I was working on a pretty small surface and I knew that the alcohol and color would get all over the place. So I moved to the bathtub.

Ta da. I think it turned out great. It could have used a bit more color, but the white keeps it light and sheer. Now I just need to finish the edges and find a dress to match. Small note if you want to try a piece this big. Line your bathtub with something. Sharpie is still permanent even if it is in rubbing alcohol. I pretty much bled the design through. But I did get most of it back off. Except for the blue. Oh and another thing, bring a fan. The bathtub pretty much collected all of the fumes. I went in for a closer look as I was finishing and nearly passed out.