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More Fabric Dyeing

These will be the last of the fabric dyeing pieces that I am doing for the summer (and probably the year).

Hand Dye
Hand Dye

These photos aren’t perfect, but you get the idea of what each piece looks like. I am sharing the entire piece, and then a close up of each one.

Hand Dye
Hand Dye

Playing with the color has been quite fun!

Hand Dye
Hand Dye

*Clicking on a photo will give you a closer look!

Hand Dye
Hand Dye
Hand Dye
Hand Dye
Hand Dye
Hand Dye
Hand Dye
Hand Dye

This last photo is the most accurate of the color and makes a nice stack of possibilities!

Hand Dye

To see the previous hand dyed pieces, click here.

Never stop playing!

Fabric Dyeing

I decided that there is no time like the present to take my dye supplies out of storage and have a play.

I thought that I didn’t have a lot, and I could use up what I have and be done with it.

I thought wrong.

I have lots of dyeing supplies in storage.

And I am enjoying time out of the sewing studio (and away from housework and weeding) playing around with color.

Hand Dye
Hand Dye

*Clicking on a photo will give you a closer look!

Hand Dye

I also thought that my dyes are so old that they will have lost their intensity.

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Hand Dye
Hand Dye
Hand Dye
Hand Dye
Hand Dye
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Hand Dye
Hand Dye
Hand Dye
Hand Dye

Wrong again.

I know the close ups don’t do it justice (I had my camera settings wrong), but the next photo does. Lots of deep, rich color!

Hand Dye

Here’s two more:

Hand Dye
Hand Dye

And these are cocoons. Why? I don’t know. I must have had an idea to use these once upon a time.

At any rate…they take the dye well!

Hand Dye

Never stop playing!

A Stroll in the Garden

“Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. Without it, life just doesn’t taste good” -Lucia Capocchione

Daisy

*Clicking on a photo will give you a closer look!

Daisy

“Play is the beginning of knowledge.” -George Dorsey

Daisy

“It is a happy talent to know how to play.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lily

“The opposite of play is not work. It’s depression.” -Brian Sutton-Smith

Lily

“This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”
― Alan Watts

Lily

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. -Kahlil Gibran

Poppy

“It’s not that we spend five days looking forward to just two. It’s that most people do what they enjoy most on those two days. Imagine living a life where everyday are your Saturdays and Sundays. Make everyday your weekend. Make everyday a play-day…” ― James A. Murphy

Poppy

“The true object of all human life is play.” -G. K. Chesterton

Clematis

“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.” -Charles Schaefer

Phlox

“Play is the exultation of the possible.” -Martin Buber

Phlox

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” -George Bernard Shaw

Moth

Stay healthy!  Stay safe!