Turquoise and Red Scarf

This is an infinity scarf.  Both colors of dye were used in the one dye bath. There will be more of these coming.

 

Plum Blossom Hoody

I made this for my niece, the baby's mother.  I hope she likes it.

Amethyst T Shirt

I've got a bunch of dyeables and a supply of dye so its dying time again.  This one is for me.

I mixed Plum Blossom and Amethyst in the same dye bath. The amethyst mostly took over and I'm happy  with the results. I'm using the low water immersion technique.  The variations are due to the t shirt being crumpled into a small container.
I have dyed spots on both arms and one colored finger.

Not Tied Dyed

Are you ready for something other than jewelry ?  This is my first go at Tumble Dyes.  They are so fast and so easy. My first reaction  was : I need more colors and more things to dye.These dyes are actually paints in a spray bottle. Scrunch up your fabric, spray, then heat set in the clothes dryer, or with an iron if you are using glitter.  Yep, glitter !  and it stays on, at least so far.


There are a couple of spots where I held the gold glitter spray close and got spots of gold.  Elsewhere I held it further back and got a light overall dusting of glitter.

This is a practice piece. I just wanted to see what I could do.  With a little something more, it would be a nice scarf.

Baby Mix and Match Wardrobe

The finale of the dyeing adventure of baby stuff.  I think the little hats and booties are so cute. Hope he gets to wear them.  I started out with a dozen pairs of booties and ended up with 3 1/2 pairs. Either the washing machine ate them, or the mice are sleeping in them.  I figure that these should get him through early fall and by then I will have more (and larger) clothes made.  The clothing blanks are from Dharma except for the onesies.

                                         sky blue

                                         lapis blue  

                                          navy blue

Baby Onsies

This a continuation of my dyeing adventures.

This is supposed to be a shade of tan. To me it looks more like gold.  I knew as soon as the stuff hit the dye that it was darker than what I wanted.

This is sky blue and navy blue

Baby Blankets and Sleepers

This is my first real venture into dyeing. It isn't at all hard to get something dyed. Getting the exact shade and even color is a little harder. So far, I haven't quite got the amount of stirring necessary nailed down. You may notice that the solids are rather blotchy. That isn't entirely on purpose.  Since they are all shades of blue I'm calling them sky scapes and letting it go.

                                                                        Sky Blue

                                                                  Lapis Blue

                                                                   
                                                                      Navy Blue

The navy blanket I used the low-water immersion method by Ann Johnson from her book 'Color by Accident'.  I'm thrilled by the way it came out.

This sleeper was dyed with the low-water immersion method with Lapis Blue dye.  The purple bits sprang up spontaneously.  Pretty much all dye colors are a made of a mix of different colors so you don't know what might be in there.  Cool, huh ? 

The mottling of the Sky blue makes it more like a sky.