Something I haven't done for a while and love doing is natural dyeing. I didn't check there was a class I took years ago with a bunch of friends. I may have posted that when the class was. Since that, I have not done any dyeing.
This time I did an experiment similar to that class. I took five dyes and dyed white wool, grey wool, and cotton. All three of those fibers would result in different colors. Cotton being the weakest of color absorption for the most part. It is very difficult to get good color on cotton. Still, that is the fun of experimentation.
I dyed enough yarns to go even further. I took one of each color and dyed them in an indigo vat. I did this three-time with three different multi-colored hanks. Each one in the vat for five minutes more than the last starting at five minutes. This, of course, changed the color even further.
The indigo vat and the grey wool both are considered overdyeing. With the case of the grey wool, that was overdyed twice. I got the idea from the class that I mentioned earlier. The difference is I didn't use mixed dyes; I used straight colors. From that class, I believe that when all was said and done, I came home with over 200 different colors of wool. In that class, we didn't dye any cotton. This time I only got 72.
The dyes I made are Brazilwood, Madder, Weld, Annatto, Logwood. With the Indigoover dye, I also dyed with the undyed yarns as well. That is how I got 72, including the undyed yarn. It was a fun and enlightening experiment. Which I hope to continue doing more of later.
