RedBarn Studios

A few weeks back when, for some bizarre reason, we were inundated with oodles and oodles of snow for the 2nd time this year, I got caught up big time in the snow dyeing jag that went around.

I gathered up a big rubber maid tub of snow and proceeded to colour me some fabric.

And yeh…I think I went overboard a bit there in the snow gathering department.

BTW, forgot how cold snow can be if you intend to shovel it with your bare hands so had to don hubby’s hiking mittens.

I proceeded to mix up 3 colours per batch of fabric and got to work making some snow cones.

The colours are always sooo delicious looking dontcha think? Because I normally dye in my garage which was way too cold to stand in for any length of time I set up shop in our sun room.

I was very careful to roll up the area rug and put down a drip cloth and newspaper on the floor under the table and on the table as well.

Here’s the 2nd colours now added to the snow. Last time I snow dyed I used my smoothie machine to crush the ice from my fridge (think I’ll buy a bag of ice next time instead).

I also had the fabric sitting in a basin that was tilted on one side so the fab would not sit in the melted ice.

This time, as you can see in the photo below, I used plastic grids suspended over each basin so the melted snow drained away from the fab. Doesn’t it look a bit like I’ve burned the tops of the fabrics in the photo.

It took a while for me wash out the fabrics. Remember I was in the sun room –not my normal dyeing location — and after all was done and things were cleared away, I put the fabrics on a chair by the garage door to rinse out later.

But, someone moved moved them to a different place. Believe it or not, because they were not there for me to notice I completely forgot about them until a friend reminded me that she had not seen the results of my snow dyeing session.

Duh! I eventually found their hiding place so here they are. Not too, too  please with the results but they will do for now.

Berry Patch 1

Rapunzel Gold

Berry Patch 2

12 Limes and a Lemon

Of course my favorite, because I am still very much in a chartreuse mood, is…..12 Limes and a Lemon.

Enjoy the eye candy!

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