{"id":9396,"date":"2019-02-01T18:16:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T23:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=9396"},"modified":"2019-02-01T18:16:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T23:16:57","slug":"several-steps-to-leggings-i-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2019\/02\/several-steps-to-leggings-i-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Several steps to leggings I like"},"content":{"rendered":"

Way back in August I tried some ice dyeing<\/a>, just for fun. Then I opened my big mouth one day at a meeting, suggesting that as a topic for a Guild Evening Meeting. Little did I know at the time that this would turn into me teaching it!<\/p>\n

So obviously I had to do a lot more practice. And with all the safety precautions that they require I didn’t want to use chemical dyes at an evening meeting, so I needed to do a bunch of samples with koolaid.<\/p>\n

Two friends came over one evening and we played around. We tried old Tshirts, wool yarn, wool fabric, and I don’t even remember what else. We learned some stuff, the take away for me being that this was more complex than I’d thought, and if I wanted to teach it, I had to do more experimenting in a structured way. <\/p>\n

So I bought some small silk scarves from Dharma Trading, some koolaid, and set to work. I was happy with the results. <\/p>\n

\"koolaid<\/a><\/p>\n

On the left I carefully pleat-folded the scarf, and used orange and lemonade koolaid.
\nIn the middle I twisted the scarf and used blue raspberry lemonade and lemonade koolaid.
\nOn the right I randomly scrunched the scarf and used the 2 packets of lemonade I had left: blue raspberry and orange. I was sure it would turn out an ugly brown mess, and was shocked that I got some great fall colors.<\/p>\n

So I got more supplies and in January taught the class to 16 people. Everyone seemed to have a good time, and although only a few of them sent me a photo of their finished scarves, they all turned out well, if not necessarily as planned.<\/p>\n

Some months ago, when I bought the onesies and T-shirts for dyeing I also bought myself a pair of mostly cotton leggings. They sat and sat, waiting for me to get to them. Well the polar vortex got me moving! I scoured and then soaked the leggings, gathered some snow, and got the whole shebang set up in my utility tub in the basement.<\/p>\n

From top to bottom shows the dyeing sequence: <\/p>\n