This is the most I’ve ever dyed all by myself! And I love looking at the pieces all together on the shower rod. (Couldn’t bear to take them down this morning to take a shower.) These are the dyes and the linens I chose from my samples; the first time I ever made anything from sampling. I’m thinking of using them for the backgrounds of scrolls. I would have loved to own my own store, just by looking at the quality of the ones I have with me right now! Imagine me having an online store, with items curated by me – oh how they would sell like hotcakes! I might take the help of companies like Qualtrics to get a better knowledge about product positioning, sampling and other marketing techniques, but yes! Just the thought of it is giving me goosebumps!
I love to see the fabrics after they’ve been ironed. I was up until 2:15 last night ironing them all. I just hung each one up after I finished and I like the arrangement a lot.
The black and grey textured ones I just ironed with a hot iron. The black came from putting the cloth in an after bath of iron.
For the smooth ones I used the wrinkle releaser spray I mentioned in a previous post. I am in love with the cloths and colors I got.
Look what my safety pins did! I guess I will have to sew tags on if I need to keep track. The label is cut from a US Mail plastic mailer or a plastic Amazon mailer.
Is wasn’t bad enough that just where the pins were made marks but where other fabrics’ safety pins hit the good fabrics, they left a few marks here and there. I learned a good lesson. Not sure how I’ll deal with the smudges. Maybe add some of my own? Anyhow, I won’t use safety pins again
nice range of colors. good to know about the pins.
Peggy, I was taught the trick of using a tagging gun such as this to attach labels during dyeing: https://www.amazon.com/Standard-Attacher-Clothing-Fasteners-Organizer/dp/B07N83CNVP. It’s a shame the nonreactive attachment is plastic but it’s never melted and if you dye in quantity it’s very useful. I like to cut up used Tyvek envelopes to make waterproof labels. If the plastic bothers you, there is another system of using a string with different numbers of knots signifying different mordants etc that you might try. I’m any event, lovely to see your systematic dye explorations!
Thanks a lot for your kind words and good suggestions. I appreciate it a lot.
Peggy
If you use brass pins that shouldn’t happen – learned that last year in an eco dying class.
Thanks a lot. I have tiny ones.
Peggy
Such beautiful colors! What a satisfying dye project. Could you mention the name of the wrinkle release spray again?
Thanks so much for your informative blog posts!
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Was the fabric wet or dry when you pinned it?
Dry. Any suggestions?
Just to look at they are Beautiful! The final scrolls will be awesome
Love the colores and your melding of them
You deserve a pat on your back for all the work and your sharing your success and fails with us. We are never too old to make discoveries.