Snow Dyeing

About a month ago I did some snow dyeing with what snow we had left. I had always wanted to try it so I figured it was now or next winter. I decided now was the better option.

The main thing that I wanted to dye was a bunch of yardage of a light blue fabric that would look like the sky. I have this Idea to use a bunch of my hand dyed fabrics to create some bright paper pieced stars with the sky background. But in order to do this, I needed some light blue fabric.

I think this ended up being about 5 yards total.

Then, using some mesh screens that my wonderful DH built me I mixed up some dyes and did some random snow dyeing.  I really had no rhyme or reason behind these fabrics other than I just wanted to try snow dyeing. 

Overall I loved doing the snow dyeing.  I did think the colors would appear brighter than they were.  Perhaps if I left them to sit longer than the 1-2 hours I would have gotten some brighter colors.  Regardless, I still really liked the way they call came out.  It's something that I will certainly do again. 

I really enjoy dyeing fabrics.  I'll certainly continue to do more during the summer. 

More Dyed Fabric

Last post I shared some of the fabric that I dyed last weekend.  I didn't show you some of the close-ups of the non-solid fabrics, so I thought I'd show you that today.  I have another 12 yards or so in the washing machine right now, which will finish off this batch of dyed fabric.

I dyed!!!

This weekend I spent a lot of time dyeing fabric and had a blast.  I started doing some Friday night when I got home after a very long, stressful day at work.  It was a big stress release.  I then did a little bit more yesterday morning and really got into things today.  Today KK came over and we dyed fabric together.  Here are some pictures of my/our adventure.

As I type, most of the fabric is in the washing machine.  I have my medium and light gradations and several mixed fabrics in the wash and my dark gradation and more mixed fabrics are processing a little bit longer.  I'll wash those tomorrow.  

I really enjoyed dyeing fabric and will definitely do more.  I dyed 30 yards of fabric this weekend, using all of the fabric that I bought to do this.  I'll have to get more soon.  I have some Christmas presents in mind that I'd like to make before it gets too cold to dye outside.