Although there was snow on the ground yesterday am, I had to go to Regina for my weekly Creative Entrepreneurship class at the SK Arts Board. I checked the weather forecast and it seemed like Mother Nature would cooperate and keep it cool enough to keep the snow we had plus add a bit more. The drive home last night ok except for about the last hour when the road had some accumulation and required slower speeds for safety.
The view from my front door this am
I could hardly wait to get to the studio to get started prepping for snow dyeing. EXCEPT today was the day I had arranged for Elaine Robitaille of http://www.tooaquarius.com/ to come to the studio. She’s helping me get my website up and running FINALLY. We had our chat and some lunch, then Elaine came outside to help me gather snow for my snow dyeing. There was enough on the picnic table to fill my bin.
Gathering the snow
After Elaine went home, I came back, put the scarves in the soda ash to soak while I set up the bins and mixed the dye concentrates. I found some more new dyes I hadn’t tried yet, so it will be interesting to see how they turn out. I put at least 2 different type of scarves per bin, some had 3 so I have between 2-3 dozen scarves in the snow dyeing process. I also dyed a rayon top and a cotton T-shirt to see how the process works with clothing.
Bins of snow dyed items
Hopefully I can rinse these tomorrow and dye some fabric with the rest of the dye concentrates. I don’t expect there to be enough snow to do any more snow dyeing. As usual, I took the gloves off several times and have multi-colored hands. I may as well get all the dyeing done so the dye can wear off over the weekend.
