This is a "Technique Week" on the Yahoo Group Fiber Art Traders - we are having 'fun in the kitchen' this week, experimenting with 'natural' dyes - so if roses and kool-aid count, I'm in!
Here's my progress so far:
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| Black Cherry Kool-Aid makes awesome dye - 4 pkts per quart w/T salt |
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| Red Rose petals steeped in salty water yielded a beautiful pink/purple dye bath |
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| results of black cherry kool-aid |
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| I did socks, too... this is still wet in this pic. |
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| turmeric make a really intense yellow dye - a little goes a long way! |
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| Lutradur does not take the dye very well... boo! |
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| but I kept trying anyway! |
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| the jar has half turmeric, half b-c/k-a |
and the results:
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| wet - after microwave heat setting... turmeric, black cherry, red roses |
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| finished, pressed and folded - ready for art - Lutradur, muslin, Kona pfd, old socks, and cotton batting scraps |
The pieces at lower right were dyed with a small jar of "leftovers" to get an orange transition - and the pink blotches on the pieces at lower left.... that's where the roses and the black cherry made friends while still wet...
Today's process... resist! Of course I can't resist resist!
Hoping to have time to post more results later ~ bye for now!
