Celebrate your passion for color with Colorways

re: Celebrate your passion for color with Colorways

babybat — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:57:59 GMT

I just finished reading my Colorways and was rather disappoined with the lack of information on how to get some of the beautiful colors shown. I did download the two tutorials but was really interested in more hands on dyeing methods.

re: Celebrate your passion for color with Colorways

TammyT — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:29:58 GMT

This is interesting. I Would love to do some dying with this natural product. The really disgusting thing is that cochineal is routinely used in food and cosmetic products. Most brands of strawberry yogurt are colored with it (it's called "carmine" or another name that starts with a "c" that I can't remember). Most red fruity drinks are also colored with carmine. We could just buy a bottle of Hawaiian Punch and dunk our yarn in it! Hmmm.... I feel a dying experiment coming on.

re: Celebrate your passion for color with Colorways

MB@FabricUiPhoneApp — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:07:44 GMT

I think dying wool is so much fun...but it is hard work. I used to dye strips of wool fabric for my Pearl McGown hooked rugs, particularly one with roses with eight shades of red! Boy, that was challenging. Not sure I'm up for the task again.