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The Good and The Bad

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There you have it, an evenly died turquoise, accomplished by doing bucket dyeing and stirring and stirring and adding salt to the water.

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While I was at the studio doing the bucket dyeing and stirring every 5 minutes for an hour, I decided to try using jet black to dye the dilutive way. Unfortunately, I miscalculated the amount of dye concentrate by 8 tbs!! I used 4 to start and should have used 12. I got some interesting results, anyway. Some of this will get overdyed.

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That piece on the left was when I wondered what would happen if I mixed better black with jet black. But, I grabbed my blue concentrate by mistake! It is a very nice blue. I like it.

Waiting for our next assignment which will be dyeing the color wheel. That will be fun.

3 Responses to “The Good and The Bad”

  1. Janet Hiller says:

    I really like Dharma’s Hot Black.

  2. Elizabeth Bamberger says:

    The fun of serendipity!

  3. Linda Morand says:

    Black needs hotter water to react.. Are you using a thermometer to test your water temperature? Check out the Dharma catalog on line for instructions.