Me Musing . . . March 2, 2010 . . .

I wanted to try the little sample pack of Colorhue liquid dyes from Japan I bought, so took some time tonight to play with them. They are soooooooooooo simple and fast to use!

In the background I wound ribbon around one end of a piece of white silk I had, then threaded it through a soap rack and pulled the other end through the center of some rounds I cut from one of those pool noodle things. I mixed some water with only a tiny amount of the turquoise dye and sponge brushed it on the silk. The leftover turquoise, I added a little blue to (too much actually!) and dipped a sample piece of wool muslin in it (far right). The goldenrod and pumpkin in the aluminum pan I did the same way.

The instructions say this dye works better with silk; however, I wanted to try it on the wool muslin sample pieces that had arrived from Japan. The colours look pretty vivid to me.

This is how the magenta came out on the wool muslin.

I left these two photos larger
so you could see the wonderful weave
of the wool muslin.

After I removed the silk from its wrappings . . .

I dipped it in turquoise again.

Amazingly the fabric soaks up the dye really fast.
All you do is rinse it, which barely has any dye leave
and hang to dry.

Cloth on drying rack

I probably spent a total of 45 minutes doing this and most of the time was in getting out all the supplies! They dye part took about 10-15 minutes! Amazing!

I'm not real creative with dyes yet, but had fun just playing tonight.

Until soon,

Che'usa

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