I'm Dyeing

I saw this really cute quilting project I wanted to make. It takes various shades of solid yellow fabric. Well I haven’t had much luck finding a variety at the stores so then I started wondering if I could dye my own. I got a few books from the library about natural dyeing and it sounds soo fun. You can try just about any plant (dandylions, flowers, moss) and sometimes get very surprising results with the colors. This might become my latest little hobby. There are various techniques but I want to try setting them in the sun in glass jars on hot days. The Native Americans were very good at this, (they would use buffalo gallbladder for a deep yellow.) Do you know why purple was always a color for royalty? Because it took 10lbs of mollusk shells and 30 days just to dye a yard of purple fabric. There is also vegetable dyes too, (I have started saving my onion skins for a pot.)It will be fun to experiment with berries and such. My husband smiles and tunes me out when I start telling him all this and calls me “Mountain Woman.” So many projects, so little time!