Fabric Dyeing

In a few of her classes, K has hand dyed a project whether it be a hat or fabric.  She now knew just enough to get me going with dyeing fabric.  🙂

I was fortunate to have found Kona cotton at a chain store :-p for about $4 a yard so had stocked up with 11+ yds.  

We were ready!!  K brought home 6 jars of Procion dye & soda ash.  I had the fabric, salt, and equipment.

pile of fabric ready to dye

 We worked in the basement in the little shower so we had access to water and didn’t get dye in the wrong place.  It was a tad chilly for us to work outside.

Here are the fabrics in the dye buckets.

Brown Rose, Hot Pink, Bronze

Olive, Turquoise, Raspberry

 

Ready to rinse them out.

And then we thought we’d hang them outside to drip dry!  Isn’t this funny!!

Even tho we had rinsed them out before drying, it hit me on Sunday that we should have rinsed them in Synthapol!  >head smack!<  So on Monday I did that.  Oh dear – it is a good thing I did!  Synthapol helps set the dye and rinse out the excess.  We still had lots of excess in there.  That would have made a disaster when I went to use the fabric in a project.   {lets not go there….}

Finally today I finished ironing all 6 pieces.  This makes me happy and has me anxious to do more.   I’m thinking this will be a great way for me to get an assortment for my Wildflower quilt I’d love to do someday without buying a zillion batiks.  We’ll see.  Don’t worry… I’ll tell you all about it!  😉  

Here they are!  

Avocado

Bronze - light touch

Brown Rose

Hot Pink

Raspberry

Turquoise

And the whole lot ~

All 6 fabrics