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7 years ago in #homesteading by schoonercreek (52)
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This is a great post @schoonercreek, I done it before when I was living in Ireland but not so much now, but I do have some lovely nettle fibre that I want to make curtains with for our truck and after reading your post I think I might dye some, thanks for the inspiration. Keep steeming on xx resteemed
Thank you @trucklife-family! Nettle is such a wonderful fiber, wow- you have nettle cloth!!!??? I have woven a tiny bit with the yarn, but didn't have enough to do much with. I would like to work with nettle fiber again. I do, however, drink nettle tea almost daily!
Awesome post! Love natural dyeing, all the variables involved allow for a huge range of tones and textures. I hadn't heard of throwing some rusty metal in the simmering pot before! Sounds like a fun experiment...
Thanks!!!
See, the steem is rolling in now as well.
I knew there was a new steemit star in the making after I read a post by you. 😉
After I read your post about handwoven clothing, where you chose fashion as your main tag, I wanted to suggest that the fashion crowd might not be your primary audience and why not try homesteading as your maintag instead, but now I see you did that already in this post.
Chapeau!
@likedeeler Thank you very much for your kind words and for your support! Made my morning! Inspired to keep Steeming!
And I got even better news for you! 😊
I´ve just talked to @eco-alex, driver of the @ecotrain, telling him what a wonderful passenger you would make for the ecotrain.
He agreed, so if you would like to join us, you are hereby officially invited to do so.
You can find out more about the ecotrain here.
If you like what you see, you can mail your expression of interest to Alex at [email protected]
You can also join our slack group via this link:
https://join.slack.com/t/ecotrain-general/shared_invite/enQtMjQ5MzUzMjQ2ODgzLWIzZmVkOWViMzIxNjc1NzE3NTY5NWI4NzJjYmY5YWIwYmY5ZjRmZGNhYzc3ZWU4ZmQ3N2I1NjU0YmQxMWExMTM
Alex would then add you manually to our private group.
So, that´s all for now. The ball is in your court. 😎
Wow. What an honor! Thank you Mr. @likedeeler!!!!
That is a beautiful golden color!
Yes! I love the deep gold!!!
Hello! I just discovered your blog after @trucklife-family s last post where she promoted alternative people!
Nice to find you! I am also dying with onion peels the Easter Eggs! Always! I know it from my mum this method so she saves up the peels long before and then we cut them in small pieces and put them in a sock or something transparent and they get multiple colors like a mosaic! Is my favorite thing :)
I will try one day to change the color of my clothes also. The white stained ones from my child :))
I also have a good friend that is making clothes and dyes them with natural colors, just like you! Unfortunately, she is not on Steemit (YET!), I will suggest her that she can find here amazing people also :))
:)
Oh that is so lovely! What a sweet memory of your mum and such a unique way to craft with them...
after your post, i started collecting onion peels :) just in case! from 3 onions now and still counting! :) tnx for the inspiration :)
You are very talented! I have a friend that dyes silk scarves with similar veggies and mushrooms. Who would of thunk! very interesting.
Aww, thank you very much! I enjoy it!
Very interesting! I'm def gonna have to try this some time!
Awesome! Thank you!
I have been saving up onion skins for this very reason!! When we moved to our homestead this June, I made sure that my bag-o-skins came with me, and I've been slowly but surely building up my stash. What a gorgeous color, soft and golden.
Thanks so much for sharing the information. I have never dyed before, so I was planning on cutting my teeth on dyeing with onion skins. Didn't know that they didn't need a mordant!
So glad to have found you on SteemIt. I am looking forward to learning more from you, and whenever I finally do get to dyeing, I'll be sure to share the results!
Thank you so much! I too, have moved and packed and carried my bag-o-skins with me!! Haha! Best of luck with your dyeing! Oh, and P.S. you can use mordants if you want, and they can darken, brighten, or even change the color ( such as the rusty iron) but you just don't have to
Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing your post. It is nice meet another natural dyer here on steemit! Great tutorial and it looks like you got some brilliant yellows. I've got a new jar of onion skins sitting on my counter, waiting until I have enough to play with.
Awesome! I will check out your blog, always great to meet another fiber artist!
What a great post @schoonercreek, thank you for sharing! Your creations are wonderful! Have you tried dying with ube potatoes ( purple potatoes )? My friends in Okinawa used them , great color!
OOO that sounds divine! I have not tried that...
Yay, glad to have helped! ;) Steem on!!
Gorgeous golden hue! This post had me wondering if there was a way to save posts 😁
@coyoteom, resteem them for one! You can find them on your blog then & you help @schoonercreek get the attention she deserves ;)
Then, just add the page to your browsers reading list, or to your home screen on your smartphone. That's what I do at the moment, until I have figured out if there is another possibility.
There are apps out there, but I haven't come across one that gives you the ability to save a post :)
Thank you very much!
This is a cool post. Could you use purple or red onion skins in the same way? I am new to dyeing fabrics, but I would like to try with some wool.
Yes you can absolutely use red onion skins! I haven't done that myself, but I'm sure you'll get some kind of color... Especially if you add some bits of rusty metal to the pot...
@team-solutions has promoted your post :)
Please tag any of your posts that provide solutions with team-solutions and I will happily Re-steem and up-vote.
Thank you for the great content!
Thanks a lot!!!
are thereany residual odors after washing?
nope!