Dye Recipes ~ Making Do

my favorite outsider artist

image from Pinterest
Misty Lindsey

as you may know

I'm still living the

"buy no supplies 2019" life

it's been easy so far

today I pulled out some dye and recipes

that turned into a make-do session

as my dyes are plentiful...just not the colors I need

here are 3 make do recipes

don't try them yet!

I'll add photos when they are out of the dryer

probably tomorrow

all are over about 1/3 yard
oatmealish wool

for once I used less wool than called for

all dyes are Cushing

Blue Variation

1/2 tsp turquoise blue

1/4 royal blue

1/4 peacock

1/4 peach

1/8 medium brown

Woodrose

somehow I have many packages of this color

I think I bought a mixed lot off ebay years and years ago

this is probably the first time it's been used

1 tsp wood rose

1/4 American beauty

Orangish

1/4 tsp apricot

1/2 orange

1/4 peach

edited: 1/16 seal brown

accidentally deleted the orangish photo
woo...it was beyond day glo orange
it's back in the dye pot now
with the seal brown
will add photo tomorrow

image from Pinterest

my dyeing has been inspired by all the images

of Spring flowers 

found online

I may never hook with these colors

but it'll be interesting trying new colors

*****

I'm not really all that enthused about cleaning the house

it's more to keep busy and not fall into a 

puddle of blackness

working so far!

About Wool Dyeing

all images in this post from Pinterest

I learned to dye in

a class given by Barb and Emma Lou

it was heavenly!

 the blurry photo above is 

the list of colors by Cushing

the dyes they wrote their book using

I've had one of these charts

hanging in my kitchen cupboard ever since

no matter where I've lived

 

a page from the back of the book

always loved seeing which wools they used to overdye

shortly after they wrote their book

Cushing changed a few of the dyes

so not all recipes will be perfect...

that is always true 

because of variations in water anyway

the cover is a photo of one of Barb's rug

oh, to see it in person was a treat every time 

using the dyes above

the spoons below 

I've dyed a lot of wool over the years 

if I were to start dyeing now

I would probably use Pro Chem dyes

just to avoid those tiny bags inside 

the Cushing enevelopes

I did purchase some a few years back

to dye some Polly Minick recipes

for red and blue

plus

most of the newer recipes are written for Pro Chem dyes

this dye book has always called to me

but I have way too much Cushing to change now

in my stash of recipes:

these recipes from Wendy Miller are great

have the book but not the swatches

love these recipes

too bad the book is hiding from me

especially good over Dorr oatmeal

I have some swatches to show you tomorrow

they are on a little white card each

with a doodle

can't remember who sold them

each recipe is for 1/4 yard

 Karen Kahle's swatches...

would love a set of these just to asmire

one really should keep track of dye recipes

successes and failures

do you think I do? 

I think this is Julies Butler's...

what fun it would be to see each swatch and recipe

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wool dyeing is very easy

check out YouTube for plenty of how to videos

when I use up / sell off

my stash of dyes I will most likely switch to 

all as-is hooking

 there is so much available today 

compared to when I started hooking in the 90's

Happy Thursday!

it's dreary and humid here in Ohio

not a good day for taking photos

hoping tomorrow you'll be able to see a table full

of newly dyed wool