Showing posts with label over dye wool. Show all posts
Showing posts with label over dye wool. Show all posts

Monday, August 30, 2010

Over-dyed Wool


I hadn't seen it done before, but with a large supply of this pretty wool, I wondered if I could over-dye some of it a different color. So I tried it to see what would happen. Here's the process...

Into a soaking bath...

...then into some blue dye. And here are some photos of the outcome...




The finished product is a beautiful mixture of black, blue and green roving for my pincushions. Perfect!

Here's a photo of the finished green I dyed a few days ago...