The heavy glass lid holds the fabric down in the dye overnight.
And after pressing, here's the output
And a shot of the pillows with the new fabric for comparison.
No stitching today. I'm enforcing a day off, so as to let ideas percolate.
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Sunday, November 24, 2019
Yellow onion dyed linen
The linen now has a lovely variegated golden color.
The heavy glass lid holds the fabric down in the dye overnight.
And after pressing, here's the output
And a shot of the pillows with the new fabric for comparison.
No stitching today. I'm enforcing a day off, so as to let ideas percolate.
The heavy glass lid holds the fabric down in the dye overnight.
And after pressing, here's the output
And a shot of the pillows with the new fabric for comparison.
No stitching today. I'm enforcing a day off, so as to let ideas percolate.
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Amazing colour...and to think it was the lowly onion skins that created it (oh, and the clever hands of Boud of course!)
ReplyDeleteAfter I drained out the skins, I chucked them on the garden to rot down and improve the earth.
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