It's been a long time since I've been so pleased with the fruits of a dyefest.
Keys to remember. Patience & Pacing. It's a lot of physical work in hot and sweaty conditions. Prep everything in the days before. Mix colors fresh, right after coffee. Label your colors! Good to know what works and what doesn't so there's no waste in the next go-round. Measure if that's the way your soul pinches you. I don't.
Music!
I put two large damask tablecloths down on the work surface. They are informed by spills and scatter.
They will need a splash of soda ash water if you want to keep the color. Or not, they can come to the next dyefest for a rematch.
The new colors made a big difference. Cotton Candy and Hot Pink jumped right in and set things afire!
The blues ran true. Lapis a strong player. I never buy green. Greens are born.
So all of this, cloth and thread, sat under the rising Strawberry moon until a thunderstorm swallowed it whole. They rinsed in the rain, then baked in the humidity the next day. More rain, all the while steeping in the scent of my neighbor's magnolias.
I'm still deciding what to call this batch. It will come to me while I'm winding them off.
2 comments:
The buildup to the strawberry moon has laid some nice groundwork. Yea for Cotton Candy and Hot Pink! Actually they all look like a fun riot of color.
every time I think "this is the best ever" ... and they just keep getting better ... Under the Strawberry Moon
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