Tie-Dye Breakfast Product

This was at the end of the dye session. I folded a bit fabric and tied it loosely with a small strip of fabric Instead of squirting in color, I set the little bundle on top of some fabric in a cup of red dye.

The lower side got dark with dye...

Some of the upper side stayed white.




Opening the folds.

Spreading it flat.

Unfold...

...and unfold again.

It's a sizzling strip of tie-dye bacon!

Update two days later... Look how boring it turned out to be!


The other fabric in that cup came out like this:


I named the color tired wine. I would have thought some of that red color would be present in the bacon piece. Maybe too much of the dye had already reacted by the time I set the bacon piece on top?

Weird Gooey Fuchsia Stuff

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!!!