Hi Folks. I don’t know about the weather where you are, but we’re having a little bit of a heat wave here in Connecticut this week. So I thought this would be the perfect time to share a picture of my backyard covered in snow. You may be wondering why my yard looks like a snow cone. Well it’s because my friend Rachael and I did a little snow dyeing at the end of the winter and after we were done, she decided to "chum" my yard with the left over dye. I say she "chummed" it because if you had seen her with the cigarette hanging out of her mouth, tossing spoons full of left over snow dye over her shoulder into the yard, you would have thought that it looked like the scene in “Jaws” with Chief Brody scooping chum out of a bucket and he realizes they should of had a bigger boat.
It was a beautiful late winter day. The winter was beginning to the thaw out into spring. So we decided it we better get some snow dyeing done before it all melted. I looked up directions for the technique online and found written directions & YouTube video from Pro Chemical & Dye. I was so excited about our adventure that I didn’t remember to take any photos until we were done. But that’s O.K. because if you Google search “Snow dyeing directions” you’ll find a bunch of bloggers who have tried this and were better about taking photos than I was.
Basically there are two ways you can do it; you can either pile the snow on the fabric then add the dye to the snow. This technique can get tricky if you don’t like muddy colors or earth tones because of the way the dye flows through the snow isn’t very controllable. If you want to keep the colors a bit more separated then make individual snow cones in bowls of one color to each bowl. Then place piles of colored snow on the fabric. This is the technique we used and we were very pleased with the results. We used I/2 yard and fat quarter cuts of fabric. I laid out all my fabrics next to each other and then piled on the colored snow. This created coordinating fabric because the fabrics contained similar colors.
Basically there are two ways you can do it; you can either pile the snow on the fabric then add the dye to the snow. This technique can get tricky if you don’t like muddy colors or earth tones because of the way the dye flows through the snow isn’t very controllable. If you want to keep the colors a bit more separated then make individual snow cones in bowls of one color to each bowl. Then place piles of colored snow on the fabric. This is the technique we used and we were very pleased with the results. We used I/2 yard and fat quarter cuts of fabric. I laid out all my fabrics next to each other and then piled on the colored snow. This created coordinating fabric because the fabrics contained similar colors.
I hope you enjoyed this little flashback to winter! And don't forget to try snow dyeing next year.
Happy quilting, Janice
Happy quilting, Janice
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