Painting

These are the bits and pieces that I put under the threads. Why waste dye? 

Once all the thread is processed, I'll start on these. Rinsing and washing by hand. One by one.

But, as we all know these will lose definition and intensity when they are washed. 

So maybe I won't. Not all of them. 

There's time to consider 

Many years ago I used dye like paint on a piece of muslin. Bold strokes and colors. 

I was in a class with my dyeing mentor, Elizabeth Barton.

Couldn't wait to wash and iron it and get it under the needle.

The only problem was that I had forgotten to fix the dye with soda ash solution and my painting completely washed away. I was devastated. 

It looked a lot like this.