Well we had a lovely messy day dyeing fabric. Some members had never done any dyeing before so those that had brought in their dyes and we made up some plastic bags full of fabrics and eventually we all went home with some very bright pieces of fabric for future use. There was a bit of magenta and some blue left so I took them home, mixed them up and got some lovely raspberry coloured fabric and thread. I think I will buy some black dye to tone down the colours for the next time I decided to do some dyeing. It's really easy to do at home when you use the plastic bag method and not really messy if you remember to put your gloves on.
Here are some of the results. Look at these lovely colours in the cat litter trays (sorry cats).
I kept my wet wipes with the dye mop ups and have got some pretty pieces I can use as backgrounds.
Fabrics all wrapped up ready to be taken home.
Not everyone was dyeing and this lovely crab and cliff face were being stitched.
Next month we are continuing with the messy work and doing some printing. Useful for the pieces we weren't too keen on from the dyeing.
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