{"id":10815,"date":"2022-02-04T16:25:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T21:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=10815"},"modified":"2022-02-04T16:25:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T21:25:44","slug":"use-what-you-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2022\/02\/use-what-you-have\/","title":{"rendered":"Use what you have"},"content":{"rendered":"

What we have here in Rochester, NY is snow. So use that snow!<\/p>\n

I purchased a dozen plain, undyed, 100% cotton towels<\/a> specifically for this purpose. <\/p>\n

Then I used the formula of Kathrin Weber<\/a> for snow dyeing. 2 cups soda ash to 1 gallon water for soaking. Lots of snow, dye on top. No drainage; let the towels sit in the muck as the snow melts. Leave them sitting there for a day after the snow is all gone. <\/p>\n

I have to tell you, my reaction to the towels immediately after dyeing was quite different from what it was at the end. I dyed 4 in the first batch and rather hated them when they were done, so I only did 2 in each of the next batches, trying different techniques. As it turns out, those first 4 are stunners! Here they are, and the dyes I used…named Into The Fire.<\/p>\n

\"Into<\/p>\n

\"dyes<\/p>\n

The next batch? Too bright, too…just too much for my tastes. Here’s Bright Reflections and their dyes.
\n\"Bright
\n\"dyes<\/p>\n

Then I wanted the colors to ‘break’ and to complement each other, so purposely chose dyes that I knew were mixes of several other colors. I got lots of muddiness, IMHO. Dark Woods and their dyes.<\/p>\n

\"Dark
\n\"dyes<\/p>\n

These last 4, although dyed in 2 different batches with slightly different colors, look similar enough. And are lovely to my eyes. Spring Will Come – and the dyes I used for the 2 batches.<\/p>\n

\"Spring
\n\"dyes
\n\"dyes<\/p>\n

I will be posting these towels in my Etsy shop<\/a> later today or tomorrow. Who knows if they’ll sell? If not, I’ll have a bunch of new towels in my closet – thinner and stiffer than my handwoven towels but they dry well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What we have here in Rochester, NY is snow. So use that snow!<\/p>\n

I purchased a dozen plain, undyed, 100% cotton towels specifically for this purpose. <\/p>\n

Then I used the formula of Kathrin Weber for snow dyeing. 2 cups soda ash to 1 gallon water for soaking. Lots of snow, dye on top. No […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[530,594],"class_list":["post-10815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-cotton","tag-dyeing","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10826,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10815\/revisions\/10826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}