Saturday, May 1, 2010

Things are beginning to happen!!!

Hi! Things are finally starting to go in the right direction. The green cotton seeds that were given to me by Jillian have all sprouted. I also have starts in Lupine, Hopi Black Dye Sunflowers, and a couple types of indigo. I got the new madder seeds, and I'll start soaking them tonight. I also plan on working on the dye flowers bed tonight, starting the marigolds and hollyhocks, and doing a bit of dying with left over dyes from last season. May as well use them, right?

I decided to "make lemonade" with the yellow flower blossoms disaster. I'd already removed the blossoms when it occurred, so I "rehydrated" the black ooze, and tossed in some leftover annato dye bath for good measure. I'm dying as we speak. Every 15 to 20 minutes I lift a little more out of the bath. So far, I have a gold/bronze sort of color. We'll have to see what happens.

Much to do and little time.

Dye Happy!

Leah 8-)

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