Dye day!

Saturday has just opened up!  My loom isn’t ready yet, so I’m not driving up to AVL tomorrow to pick it up.  I have (luxury of luxuries!) a completely open calendar.

So I am going to play with dyes!  There are so many possibilities that I scarcely know where to start:

• shibori (pole shibori especially)
• silkscreening, stenciling, and painting with thickened dyes
• playing with discharge – silkscreening or stenciling discharge paste, dipping in a discharge bath
• batik
• dyeing yarn samples for the tiger eye project
• dyeing painted warp for the tiger eye project

So I need to plan out some logistics.  There are fabrics to be scoured, silkscreens to be made, dye print paste to be mixed up, wax to be melted, pH-adjusted sample dyebaths to be mixed.  I plan a frenzied dye orgy to last all weekend long, punctuated only by a trip up to Sharon’s Sunday afternoon.  The world should cower in terror, muahahahaha!

Er, right.  Something like that.  🙂  (I think my enthusiasm is getting away from me.)

Unfortunately, I don’t have time to explore everything in one weekend, even with unbridled enthusiasm.  So I will have to pick and choose.  Mmmm….choices!!