Kind of blue

[kestrell]

Why is it that, no matter how much I prepare ahead of time and how careful I try to be, whenever I do tie-dying I end up looking as if I have eviscerated a Smurf with my bare hands? And yes, I often use gloves and still end up with trickles getting inside the gloves.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

I was dying to know about them! Dyeing sounds like fun.

I'm all over the orchids, which are one of the few flowers which grace our exceptionally shady lot. We've got some that are deep purple in the center and almost white lavender at the edge, with black and yellow speckles swooping up the center of each petal.

Yeah, if Ivory bites you, GOOP and Lava are completely off the menu.

[kestrell]

I should have anticipated that pun. I'm going to look into napkin folding to get some ideas about flower-like folding for dying. Another thing I do is put some dye in a heavy-duty Ziploc bag and then place the folded item in it and zip it closed; the edges are at the bottom are much darker, and you get these interesting streaks from bottom to top which, according to what color dye you use, could be vines, lightning strikes, whatever, so this might be used to get that effect of streaks in the petal, especially if you were to keep the center part of the item toward the top of the bag so it stays white. Next time I might try to get a Georgia O'Keefe effect if possible.