Cold bundling is SUB ZERO, WOW

Was it worth the wait?
                         You tell ME..................

Cold bundles left in a container full of left over cold dye liquid for 28 days, and this is the result:
(mind you it stunk, but that is a small price to pay), they were washed in the washing machine:

that was the dried red roses

detail from Grevilla robusta,

see the leave on top and below the brush flowers

something as simple as slices of lemon

produces a result like this

It's just not fair !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Way back :  Tuesday 9th November 2010 (& earlier), I did a lot of dyeing with the Street plum of mine, with good results,
then on Monday, 17 January 2011 India (http://prophet-of-bloom.blogspot.com/) under the title:  lovely to be home for [most of] the summer  had this magic colour with what I assumed to be something like my tree.............................
I am still on holidays (just about running out of time) so I dilligently went to collect the leaves as the master wrote and followed the instructions.......................
I am crying stamping, my foot, not fair, not nice, MY RESULT:

Still lovely colours, BUT.........

not mumbling the right chants, heeeee ??????????????????????/

That RED CABBAGE, and what it can do to fabric.......... & this is the LAST of it too

well, I have been busy, so before the red cabbage gets even more expensive (no complaints from me) because of the floods everywhere that grows things, I had to do the vinegar & Bi carb Soda comparison,
and here it is:
same cabbage, mostly same fabric and different results, after washing of course:

and the Bi carb mix got to stink too (left both 2 days in their broth, hopping for a stronger colour, which I don't think happened.............
there you go, now I KNOW
Colours are lovely and subtle, the vinegar chiffon is beautiful, and the Japanese kimono wool in the Bi card is a colour I like too and the Nun's cloth wool as well...........

By the way I am still waiting on the COLD BUNDLE, promised myself to wait until end of the week, then's the big UNWRAPPING (better and more satisfying than xmas anyway)

Cold bundle, at 17 days and waiting...............

I am trying the cold bundling (from India Flint), they have been in the box for 17 day, hoping to leave it until end of month.
Its very hard not to peek, and I can't remember much I put in, so will be double surprise or not.

I put gladwrap on top of the solution and filled this with water to avoid oxygen getting to the mix, as not to have any growth that could spoil the broth..................

It's outside, so gets a bit of the morning sun, when it shines that is

waiting............. waiting.................

Red cabbage with Bi carb Soda

there is a colour variation, its greener, while the cabbage alone was pale bluish,
bamboo did not take at all.........
next try will be with vinegar wash instead of bicarb (which is sodium bicarbonate)

Check out my new BLOG, it's nuno felting

This takes you there:                 artistically felted

 just to give you an idea ..............


Ladies of Catherine O'Leary's workshop, look for the top bar and click on:
Our workshop in Mittagong, January 2011

off to learn a lot, hopefully

I am off to a workshop with Catherine O’Leary.
Nuno felting is really a direction I would like to go and she is the master at it, I have not been able to see anybody else's nuno felting I like as much as hers:

http://www.catherineoleary.com.au/

check out her Gallery, unreal the garments quality and style.

Those of you who know me, will know that I will work out my own way to apply this craft and combine it with what I already do, looking forward the outcome......................