Plantsss

    Made my rainbow piece that I was intending a sorta zen/chakra-inspired image on… didn’t turn out how I wanted. It’s too red, for one, there’s not enough blue and no lilac or indigo. Which makes me sad. I mean, I like it and I’ll use it, since it’s all rainbow and nice, just… not what I was hoping for. Meh. I think I oversaturated the cloth, since there’s no white on it at all – even the tiny circles are coloured, and they NEVER dye, normally – even when I use the hour-dip-in-a-dye-bath method they stay white. So I didn’t tie tight enough, and loaded too much concentrated dye on for too long. Once I’ve got my new dyes (I need a lighter yellow – it’s not possible to make up “concentrated dilute dye” :P – a brown and a darker purple) I’m going to try it again. I have a new technique I want to try, too, I want to have a go at injecting the dye into the centre of the tied cloth as well as dropping it onto the top (I have some little oral medicine syringes – not sharp, they’re for giving medicines to babies, but they let you be a little more targeted with your dye-placement. :) I’ve had them ages – I think when I worked in Sainsbury’s – and finally found a use for them.)

Since the next bit has some pictures in it, I'll put it behind a cut, to save people's bandwidth.

( Clickme! Pictures in here )

Whee. Although I know I'll never remember the cut-code next time and have to go dig for it again.