Ice Dying

Been a while since I have added a post. Adding this post to keep track of what I am doing in my craft and creating life.

The last few days I have been having a fun time playing and experimenting with ice dying. Used some fly netting as the cradle for the fabric to keep it out of the water and dye. Silly me did not think of this and previously used a tray that was a bit small for the container and the ice kept dropping down the side.

First I folded and tyed the fabric - 1 metre and fat quarter pieces. Then put the fabric in soda ash and salt water and let it soak for about an hour. Then added the fabric to the containers and added the ice. Only had one bag which was not quiet enough but the results are, I think, still very nice.

In the first container I used the following procion dyes - butter yellow, rust orange,antique gold, brown rose and bronze.

The photos have wash out the colour a lot.

This is the fabric that I added to the bottom of the container in the water and dye.

The procion dyes used in the second container where robin's egg blue, violet, deep purple, burgundy and bright blue.

This is the piece that was in the bottom of the container although this container leaked therefore the piece did not float in the water and dye but still interesting.

Not having a lot of ice meant that some of the dye powder did fall straight onto the fabric creating spots.

Also found this in one of the pieces, a little alien.

Have another lot of fabric in containers with lots of ice, used 2 bags this time. Will see what I get tomorrow afternoon. Dying fabric is always a surprise what appears. I am not one to follow a formula and I think even this would not result in equal results. This is what I like about dying fabric.

Container one has the following colours - bubble gum, peach, raspberry, lilac and cerulean blue. The second container I used both procion and drimarene dye - gold yellow, green - drimarene and pale aqua and turquoise - procion.

I have tied the pieces in tie dye style.

Looking forward to see what appears tomorrow.