I’ve been doing some gradation dyeing today. This is still part of the class Quilter’s Palette, that I’m taking at QU, but I changed one of the recipes. The yellow/ochre gradtion was one of the recipes supplied for a 4 tone gradation. I made up my own green shade to do the 6 tone gradation. The yellow ones are already in their rinsing buckets and are looking quite neat. The greens are still soaking up the dye. (I only have 6 small buckets, so they had do be done one after another.) These are all done with my new batch of unbleached muslin, which arrived mid week.
For the balled up piece I used up a piece of my IKEA fabric that doesn’t always behave reliably. It started off plain yellow and then got dumped into the darkest ochre dye. Once opened out and rinsed a bit the darker colour got lost. So now it is having a second chance to do something exciting in green dye.
