playing with colour

Ohhhh, I've been planning to do this for soooo long

and never came to it ...

(until now)

Perhaps all the wonderful stuff

at the Weaver's Market in Hoorn

gave me the last push

I know :

I love all the natural dying stuff I see and hear about

(surely after that indigo workshop)

BUT

I don't have enough room ( and pans, electric hob)

nor do I have the skills (and recipes)

to do so successfully.

So I stuck to the "good old" Procion dye

(I did that with a good friend some years ago)

Preparing the dye (with mouth cap and gloves)

Strands of cotton and silk waiting on cling film.

First one . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . then a lot more

waiting for 24 hours.

First harvest of the wonderful silk

(looks like normal cotton embroidery floss :

only 8 strands instead of 6,

and thinner !)

YUMMY !

Started with the second batch today !

:-)