Here we are at week 4 of the Feb/Challenge. We got some snow so I decided to do a little snow dyeing. It’s been years! Here is my favorite of the two shirts I dyed. This was using Kingfisher Blue. I’m looking forward to wearing it this summer.
Read MoreSince it snowed AGAIN I thought I’d do a little snow dyeing. In this session I’m really looking again to see colors split. I talked about and showed colors splitting on this post. I buy mostly “pure” dyes now which won’t split except give me lighter and darker shades of the color. However, I did…
Read MoreYesterday I shared with you some snow dyeing where I used two dye colors. Now to show you how one dye splits into lots of colors. For the following projects I used Dharma #154 Brushed Steel. When I used it in low immersion dyeing, this is the color I got. It’s pretty much what I…
Read MoreIt’s been almost three years since I snow dyed which propelled me into this dyeing and surface design addiction. Then this past week it snowed and it was time to get out the dyes and revisit this process. This was the first of three snow dyeing sessions. I first dyed a couple shirts. One…
Read MoreMy new friend and wonderful artist Katherine Sands makes lovely art and often works with her paint cloths. I bought a couple of her beauties for Christmas presents last year. Well, one of them I ended up keeping. So I started using a piece of muslin as my paint rag. After I felt it was…
Read MoreNow for the second technique. For this one I used less dye. I love the intense colors I got but wanted to see what they would look like using less dye which equals less cost. If you prepared your fabric as I did in this post, you are ready to move on to this new…
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