Last of the Snow Dyes

Here are all the scrap pieces I dyed.  I had lots of fun dyeing, but my fingers froze.

Looks like a snow cone, but don't eat!

Fushia and Black Dye

close-up

Mixture of dyes -mainly black

mixture - blue, yellow, black, and a fushia spill

Fushia, Turquoise, and Black

Snow dyeing - interesting surprise

 Okay, so I only had two racks - improvise when you are too impatient!

 here is the result.  This was on a scrap of PFD fabric.

 Close up of surprise in corner:  A butterfly (may be from South America)

Snow dyeing - more results

Here are some pictures of my synthetic silk piece.  The finished piece looked pretty good until I rinsed it,  It did not retain much of the dye.

Snow dyeing - my favorite piece

 Okay so I never shared the rest of my snow dye results. Here are step by step pictures of my next piece. Same process as in my 1st post Snow dyeing.

melting

whole cloth

This is my favorite section

Snow Dyeing -silk scarf

So yesterday told about the predye process. Today I will show you pictures of my silk scarf from start to finish.  I used the same soaking for the silk as I did for all my fabric.  I only had two racks so i squished this piece up on a Styrofoam bowl set it in a leftover cover from McD's and packed snow on top.

Waiting

 Pouring on fuchsia , then the turquoise

                         snow melting

These pictures did not turn out that well, the scarf is transparent.  I 'd get better pictures but I gave it to my son's fiancee and it is now in Florida.  Tomorrow I'll post about my favorite piece.

Snow Dyeing

I tried snow dyeing with the last snow we had.  It wasn't much but managed to scrape some up.
I first soaked my fabric in soda ash water.  I used PFD cotton, synthetic satin, a silk scarf, pale eco dyed pieces, scape white with stains.

I used 1/2 tsp. of powdered dye, 1 tsp salt dissolved in  6oz of water for my dye bases.

                   

 I used 1/2 tsp. of powdered dye, 1 tsp salt dissolved in  6oz of water for my dye bases.

I placed my fabric on a wire rack over a plastic tray and packed on the snow. Next step was squirting  on the dye.
I will show the before and after pictures for each fabric step by step in the next couple of posts.