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| Glampinggrandma |
Posted - Jul 03 2015 : 5:51:42 PM
I have purchased "bare" yarn and tried my hand at dying my own. But the twist is that I have lots of wild black raspberries. At the promise to my daughter in love to not use too many for dying, I used about a cup, and worked my way to dying two hanks. It was fun to let them drip dry and pool some to make it varigated. I hung them on my vintage wooden drying rack outside between rain showers in these parts. I am calling my color soft raspberry on the wild side. Katie Wright |
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| Annika |
Posted - Oct 02 2015 : 1:05:25 PM
I've just contacted a person about buying some "raw" fleeces to work with! LOVE the colours! Thanks for the beautiful visuals =) |
| marthajane |
Posted - Oct 02 2015 : 12:56:15 PM
What a fun creative experiment!
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| Dare2BUniquelyMe |
Posted - Aug 19 2015 : 4:22:41 PM
Last two photos. The first is the results from the plum tree leaves. It's a limey yellow om both cotton and silk. [URL=http://s1029.photobucket.com/user/Sherrilyn_Askew/media/20150819_1601121_zps6afpa2ok.jpg.html] [/URL]
The second photo is the amazing range of yellows I got from natural dyes:
Top row (silk) L to R: St John's Wort (exhaust), marigold, apple leaves, plum leaves.
Bottom row (cotton): St John's Wort, St John's Wort (exhaust), marigold, apple leaves, plum leaves.
[URL=http://s1029.photobucket.com/user/Sherrilyn_Askew/media/20150819_1604591_zpsrefblkjd.jpg.html] [/URL]
Thank you are for your patience with all the posts.
Sherri
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| Dare2BUniquelyMe |
Posted - Aug 19 2015 : 06:19:55 AM
I still have a few beets left in the ground, and that got me to thinking. Beet juice stains horribly, I wonder what I would get it I did it on purpose. So I tried. [URL=http://s1029.photobucket.com/user/Sherrilyn_Askew/media/20150819_0602591_zpscjwyvqnj.jpg.html] [/URL] I got a light chocolate color on both the cotton and the silk, but a gold on the wool. The wool was an over-dye and I didn't use a mordant on it. Very interesting.
My plum dye cloth is currently drying on the clothesline, so I will hopefully post it tonite. Time to mordant more cloth and experiment with tie-dye and stamping.
Sherri
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| Dare2BUniquelyMe |
Posted - Aug 15 2015 : 9:17:48 PM
The promised photo:[URL=http://s1029.photobucket.com/user/Sherrilyn_Askew/media/20150815_1331241_zpslkhsbwnm.jpg.html] [/URL]
The silk is a bluer green than the cotton. Both are attractive greens.
Off to do more fabric.
Sherri |
| Dare2BUniquelyMe |
Posted - Aug 14 2015 : 7:40:32 PM
Did the apple leaves today. I was expecting a greenish yellow, i got yellow on cotton, and an olive yellow on silk. [URL=http://s1029.photobucket.com/user/Sherrilyn_Askew/media/20150814_1927311_zpspf7xrtjb.jpg.html] [/URL]
When I am done for the year, I will have to line up all the yellows and post a pic so you can really see the differences. Of courses these photos don't seem to be showing the colors as well as they could either.
Anyway, after I did the apple dye bath, rather than feed it to the plants, I made a balckberry dye bath and added it in. I then tossed in part of the cotton that I had already used in the wild cherry bark bath. Wait until you see the beautiful green I got. I tossed a piece of mordanted silk into the exhaust just to see what happens to it. Will see the results in the morning. I will post another photo then.
Sherri
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| Dare2BUniquelyMe |
Posted - Aug 13 2015 : 6:42:01 PM
I like the book a lot. She also tells you how to make your own mordant and modifiers, Instead of having to buy potentially dangerous chemicals. Love to know how your project turns out.
Sherri |
| NancyOH1 |
Posted - Aug 13 2015 : 5:54:41 PM
I am so glad to see this post today. I have learned to spin fiber in the last couple of years and now want to learn to dye some of my fiber. So glad to hear about the book "Wild Color". I have one book on dyeing (Visually Teach Yourself Dyeing) that I do like, but would like to learn to dye with natural materials as well. |
| Dare2BUniquelyMe |
Posted - Aug 13 2015 : 1:07:33 PM
I hate auto correct on my phone. It screws up more words.......
Here is a photo of the wild cherry. It's kind of a pinkish tan. I was expecting a pinker color. I think I need more bark.
[URL=http://s1029.photobucket.com/user/Sherrilyn_Askew/media/20150813_1243501_zpsgvbhciif.jpg.html] [/URL]
Right now I am boiling apple leaves for the next dye bath. Boiled apple leaves smell wonderful (like apples), not like boiled marigolds (do them outside). I bet my family thinks I baked a pie today instead of just cooking my fabric.
The fabric I am using in these experiments is not new. It came from old sheets and clothes I got from the thrift store. Those items have been washed so many times that the sizing is sure to be gone. I always wash them again to get rid of any fabric softeners and perfumes before I put them in a mordant pot. The wool is yarn I have spun already. Soon I will try roving that I have carded myself. Since the blackberry and marigold dyes are so strong, I think I might use them to try some block printing, or use a little beeswax to do a resist dye. Who knew you could have this much fun playing with plants and fabric.
Sherri
Sister 1350 |
| Dare2BUniquelyMe |
Posted - Aug 13 2015 : 08:39:16 AM
I have found it very interesting how the plant fibers and animal fibers look the same with some dyes, yet vastly different with others. My cherry bark did not turn out even close to exp=cted. I think I will try apple leaves and plum leaves next. Who knows, maybe there is a Northwest Dyersburg guide in the making....lol
Sherri
Sister 1350 |
| Red Tractor Girl |
Posted - Aug 13 2015 : 05:48:21 AM
Very, very interesting Sherri! The blackberries turned out beautiful too. I think it would be fun to knit the blackberry yarn together with the darker marigold yarn for a gorgeous Fall cowl or shaw.
Winnie #3109
Red Tractor Girl
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| Dare2BUniquelyMe |
Posted - Aug 12 2015 : 2:29:26 PM
Please post a photo of the blue you did, I would love to see it.
I did another batch yesterday, marigolds. They produced a beautiful yellow. Not as tan looking as the St John's Wort.
[URL=http://s1029.photobucket.com/user/Sherrilyn_Askew/media/20150812_1416151_zpstt4t6mdt.jpg.html] [/URL]
I am currently soaking a batch of fiber in wild cherry bark and will post those results soon. I am having way to much fun!!!
Sherri
Sister 1350 |
| windypines |
Posted - Aug 03 2015 : 3:10:08 PM
thanks for sharing the different colors you created. I have wool yarn I want to dye. I have done the Japanese indigo plant, for blue, and I did a batch of walnuts and got a camel tan color. It was fun to see what you get.
Farming in WI
Michele |
| Dare2BUniquelyMe |
Posted - Jul 31 2015 : 06:23:37 AM
[URL=http://s1029.photobucket.com/user/Sherrilyn_Askew/media/785759c9-4728-45f3-ad43-a1d8cacfcf12_zpsnhuepdsv.jpg.html] [/URL]
Sherri
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| Dare2BUniquelyMe |
Posted - Jul 31 2015 : 06:09:46 AM
A good book for natural dyeing is "Wild Color" by Jenny Dean. It tells you how to pretreat animal and plant fibers for the best color-fastness, and how to make your own mordants and post-rinses if you don't want to buy copper or iron powders (both toxic). I have done a couple of dye batches so far. One with St John's Wort (only one variety gives you the reds, and it was not the one I had), and one with blackberries. It was very interesting to see how the different types of fibers took dye. Silks seem to take (and keep) the brightest colors, while cotton is softer. Wool colors a lot like silk, but seems to change according to the initial color(s) of the fiber, giving a multicolor effect. They are all very pretty.
Sherri
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| forgetmenot |
Posted - Jul 05 2015 : 8:13:28 PM
I was just wondering the same thing, Grace....
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| katmom |
Posted - Jul 05 2015 : 3:00:53 PM
oh. I forgot to ask... do you have to do anything to 'set' the dye? like rinse in vinegar or ?????
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| katmom |
Posted - Jul 05 2015 : 2:59:34 PM
Glampinggrandma,,, what a great idea,,, thanx for sharing it with us,,, and motivating us to try natural dyes...
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| TexasGran |
Posted - Jul 04 2015 : 7:07:29 PM
I had a quilt, (my oldest granddaughter has it now), that my grandmother pieced. She dyed her own solid colored fabric for it. I never knew if she used blackberries or mustang grapes, but the color was just beautiful. It has faded over the years. She passed away about 40 years ago and due to poor health had not been able to be very creative during her latter years. I love to experiment with plant dyes. When I taught first grade, every year we studied Indians and Pilgrims. I would bring a few things into the classroom and let the Kid's make colors and then paint with them. Lots of fun.
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| Red Tractor Girl |
Posted - Jul 04 2015 : 08:42:23 AM
Katie, your experiment sounds great! Can you post a photo of the yarn you dyed? I would've to see how it turned out!
Winnie #3109
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| quiltee |
Posted - Jul 03 2015 : 7:53:32 PM
I've never used raspberries, but have used kool-aid. Sounds like u have a great color. What are you going to make with it?
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| MaryJane |
Posted - Jul 03 2015 : 7:10:21 PM
Love the idea of using raspberries ... on the wild side:)
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| Song Sparrow |
Posted - Jul 03 2015 : 7:00:40 PM
Sound beautiful, Katie. Could we possibly see a picture? :)
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