Well, how is this? I collaged the 8 photos of the two two yard pieces of snow dyes I did yesterday! They turned out just as I had envisioned and will be very useful for a quilt I will be starting soon -- think bird background. You really have to double click to see all the detail. These were done with basically intense blue, deep navy and some sun yellow thrown on top. I am beginning to run out of dyes now. I used a pretty heavy concentration again of the blues but did water down the yellow a bit. One piece had more yellow on it than the other. The above is a total of four yards which makes a lot less mess in my dye space! Four more yards are batching now!I was whining yesterday that there was hardly enough snow to do the snow resist dyeing and then the skies opened up. The "trace to one inch" turned into about 7 inches of "lake effect". I can't complain as I was safely inside and it makes gathering snow a lot easier although it is very heavy wet snow so I will order something a little lighter the next time!
I did scour another 20 yards or so as there is supposed to be more snow next week and we have to take advantage while we can! I will have to check out the ice rink which is within walking distance of my house because the Zamboni should make good snow scrapings according to friends!
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Hi Beth
I've been following your snow dyeing and am hoping that mine will turn out as exciting. My first batch last year certainly didn't ! I will definitely try nuking the fabric - which means hauling yet another dish out of kitchen use and putting it in the dye tool inventory!
Thanks for your pictures and input.
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