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Glampinggrandma
Farmgirl in Training
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Katie
New London
MO
USA
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 Posted - Jul 03 2015 : 5:51:42 PM
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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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Song Sparrow
True Blue Farmgirl
1010 Posts
Amy
Talleyville
Delaware
USA
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Posted - Jul 03 2015 : 7:00:40 PM
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Sound beautiful, Katie. Could we possibly see a picture? :)
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MaryJane
Queen Bee
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MaryJane
Moscow
Idaho
USA
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Posted - Jul 03 2015 : 7:10:21 PM
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Love the idea of using raspberries ... on the wild side:)
MaryJane, Farmgirl #1 Plowin' Thru ~ giving aprons a good wrap for 45 years and counting ~
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quiltee
True Blue Farmgirl
7546 Posts
Linda
Terrell
TX
USA
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Posted - Jul 03 2015 : 7:53:32 PM
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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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Linda O
Lone Oak, TX
Farmgirl #1919
"Women are Angels, and when someone breaks our wings, we simply continue to fly . . . on a broomstick - we're flexible, like that."
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Red Tractor Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
6663 Posts
Winnie
Gainesville
Fl
USA
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Posted - Jul 04 2015 : 08:42:23 AM
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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
Red Tractor Girl
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl
4919 Posts
Marilyn
Stephenville
Texas
USA
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Posted - Jul 04 2015 : 7:07:29 PM
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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.
TexasGran
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
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Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17161 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17161 Posts |
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forgetmenot
True Blue Farmgirl
3602 Posts
Judith
Nora Springs
IA
USA
3602 Posts |
Posted - Jul 05 2015 : 8:13:28 PM
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I was just wondering the same thing, Grace....
Farmgirl sister #3926
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the belief that something is more important than fear." Ambrose Red Moon |
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Dare2BUniquelyMe
Sharpshooter / Chapter Guru
143 Posts
Sherrilyn
Lake Tapps
Washington
USA
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Posted - Jul 31 2015 : 06:09:46 AM
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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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Dare2BUniquelyMe
Sharpshooter / Chapter Guru
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Sherrilyn
Lake Tapps
Washington
USA
143 Posts |
Posted - Jul 31 2015 : 06:23:37 AM
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Sherri
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windypines
True Blue Farmgirl
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Michele
Bruce
Wisconsin
USA
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Posted - Aug 03 2015 : 3:10:08 PM
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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
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Dare2BUniquelyMe
Sharpshooter / Chapter Guru
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Sherrilyn
Lake Tapps
Washington
USA
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Posted - Aug 12 2015 : 2:29:26 PM
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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.
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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
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Red Tractor Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
6663 Posts
Winnie
Gainesville
Fl
USA
6663 Posts |
Posted - Aug 13 2015 : 05:48:21 AM
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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
Sharpshooter / Chapter Guru
143 Posts
Sherrilyn
Lake Tapps
Washington
USA
143 Posts |
Posted - Aug 13 2015 : 08:39:16 AM
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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
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Dare2BUniquelyMe
Sharpshooter / Chapter Guru
143 Posts
Sherrilyn
Lake Tapps
Washington
USA
143 Posts |
Posted - Aug 13 2015 : 1:07:33 PM
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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
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NancyOH1
True Blue Farmgirl
88 Posts
Nancy
Columbus
Ohio
USA
88 Posts |
Posted - Aug 13 2015 : 5:54:41 PM
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| 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. |
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Dare2BUniquelyMe
Sharpshooter / Chapter Guru
143 Posts
Sherrilyn
Lake Tapps
Washington
USA
143 Posts |
Posted - Aug 13 2015 : 6:42:01 PM
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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 |
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Dare2BUniquelyMe
Sharpshooter / Chapter Guru
143 Posts
Sherrilyn
Lake Tapps
Washington
USA
143 Posts |
Posted - Aug 14 2015 : 7:40:32 PM
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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
Sister #1350 |
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Dare2BUniquelyMe
Sharpshooter / Chapter Guru
143 Posts
Sherrilyn
Lake Tapps
Washington
USA
143 Posts |
Posted - Aug 15 2015 : 9:17:48 PM
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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 |
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Dare2BUniquelyMe
Sharpshooter / Chapter Guru
143 Posts
Sherrilyn
Lake Tapps
Washington
USA
143 Posts |
Posted - Aug 19 2015 : 06:19:55 AM
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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
Sister #1350 |
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Dare2BUniquelyMe
Sharpshooter / Chapter Guru
143 Posts
Sherrilyn
Lake Tapps
Washington
USA
143 Posts |
Posted - Aug 19 2015 : 4:22:41 PM
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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
Sister #1350 |
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marthajane
True Blue Farmgirl
196 Posts
Anna
Orlando
FL
USA
196 Posts |
Posted - Oct 02 2015 : 12:56:15 PM
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What a fun creative experiment!
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
5602 Posts
Annika
USA
5602 Posts |
Posted - Oct 02 2015 : 1:05:25 PM
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| I've just contacted a person about buying some "raw" fleeces to work with! LOVE the colours! Thanks for the beautiful visuals =) |
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