Windy Monday!

Why oh why is it that whenever I set up to dye on the back porch the wind absolutely HAS to start blowing?  It was a duel to the death between me and the plastic wrap every time I wanted to seal off another layer of fabric to batch.  As I have to leave it for 24 hours before rinsing, and as it needs to stay at least somewhat moist during that time, I make a stack of layers - a cut-open black trash bag on the bottom, and between each layer of fabric, sheets of plastic wrap.  As you can imagine, the plastic wrap continually tried to wrap around ME instead of laying politely on the wet fabric.  I finally resorted to bringing out lots of canned goods from the pantry to hold down the stack.  Hmmmm - I only need two more hands.  Or four.

Today I used yellow, brilliant blue, lilac, turquoise and kelly green.  I hand-painted some t-shirts to play around with cutting them up to re-fashion into different shirts, and then switched to my new linen and rayon blend...  on that yardage I poured the dyes onto the folded material - one was wrapped flat and one loosely hand-pleated before wrapping.  So I have a bag of linen and a stack of t-shirt cotton.  Can't wait for the big rinse tomorrow.  I'll post pictures and start deciding whether I like the result and am ready to start sewing, or whether to do a new layer of surface treatment.  Stay tuned!

Color has taken possession of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of me forever... Color and I are one. I am a painter.   Paul Klee