I've been dyeing bits of fabric all day and have no business blogging this late, but will you take look at this? I mixed up some Fuchsia dye yesterday afternoon, used it for some samples, and left out the extra to play with today. It was at room temperature, so I knew it would have lost some oomph, but figured it would still provide some color mixing fun. The stuff seemed fine as late as 11pm tonight, but then as I was cleaning up, I noticed this weird gunky stuff stuck to the inside of the jar. What's that about?
It's gelatinous, rubbery. What makes this happen? I was in full experimentation mode. Did I contaminate the jar with something??? With a little encouragement it washed out OK, but it broke up rather than dissolve. Here's the rinse water--lots of little floaties:
While we're here, take a look at how the fuchsia samples washed out...
These are still wet, and these are some seriously frightening shades of pink. These are 200%, 100%, 50%, 16%, 4%, and 2%.
The mottling is much stronger than for the Cerulean set. Is this a characteristic of the Fuchsia? Or did I just cram the fabric in tighter? I like it, and see great possibilities here for overdyeing.
In the last hour the studio looked like this:
And like this...
Time to call it a night. Tomorrow I'll go pick up Sparky at his grandparents' house. I hope to do some quick rinsing out before it's time to leave!!!
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