I eat, sleep and breath fabric and crafting. And as I always say, it makes me so happy. Memorial Day rolled around and we quasi-planned the typical family outing of a boat ride and lunch. Younger son didn't seem eager to go and after checking the marine forecast, neither did I. I suggest to the husband that he and my older son have some quality time on the water, as they both wanted to go. I got a little guilt but not much grumbling and off we went in our separate ways - me heading straight to my craft studio. A day off with free time, what to do?!! Woo hoo! I decided to do some ice dying.
Prepped the muslin and got it all nice and smushy to take the melting ice and make patterns.
Carefully prepared the dye. No matter how neat I try to be, something other than the fabric gets dyed.
Covered the fabrics with ice cubes (a bag that I bought at the grocery store and smashed against the brick patio to crush it).
Added the dye to the ice and waited for it to melt. Being a hot day in Florida that did not take too long.
Each piece of fabric gets rinsed and then washed in the machine. The results were fantastic! I am hooked! The question asked now is what will I do with them? Good question!
Here is the result! The colors in the photo are not exactly true to what they are in person, however they are bright, saturated, juicy colors and I love how they turned out. 12 fat quarters up on my design wall. What do you create?!
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