Our guild had a class in fabric dyeing in March. It was offered as a "non-messy, non-toxic" method of dyeing. Dyeing which could maybe be fairly easy to do on our own. Our teacher, Jennie Henderson, showed us several different methods. (Jennie is a superb "fiber artist," dyeing fabrics and clothing and weaving beautiful things on her looms.) The first day we learned about ice dyeing, or snow dyeing, if you live where there is snow. We first soaked our fabric (actually we were dyeing fabric shopping bags, which Jennie provided) in a mixture of water and washing soda. Then we scrunched up and twisted the fabric before placing it on a rack inside of a plastic "wash pan." We placed quite a few ice cubes on top of the fabric bags, then sprinkled just tiny amounts of Jennie's dye powder onto the ice. It immediately started melting, causing the dye to liquify and come into contact with the fabric. Depending on which colors we chose and where we placed the color, the bags became beautiful multicolor masterpieces!
MomStitches was visiting me, so we took the class together. Here is her bag getting melted and colored upon!
And here is my bag in process.
We both put our fabric bags in the same container, knowing that they would probably touch each other and blend the colors even further. They sure did!
It was a fun day with lots of coloring experiments.
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