I’ve been having trouble getting nice prints in my eco dyeing these past few weeks…. and am feeling like I lost the magic touch.

Then I seemed to remember that I was having the same feeling at about this same time last year! So I won’t let it get me down. I’ll just keep plodding along.

Here is a scarf I wove out of ‘peace’ silk and then dyed…..

Actually I think that I showed it already….. after the first printing. It’s been over printed since then.

And here are two scarves that I am really not excited by…….

I am going to try soaking my next batch of silk in some soy milk, along with some reclaimed linen pieces, to see if that will help enhance the prints.

My partner is playing there this coming Friday evening……

More info at Steve Peter’s blog

http://waywardmusic.blogspot.com/

I want to thank the people who answered my query about smelly prints! I soaked the two items (the slip and the scarf) in baking soda water …… it helped!

In today’s scarf I modified my approach to using just egg whites and not the whole egg. That helped tremendously!

Here is the silk slip I soaked in the soda water…..

And here is the scarf. Handwoven out of a 50/50 wool silk single ply yarn. Nice and light weight. There are some bizarre colors going on in it, and the prints are subtle….. but for some reason I love it!

Today’s scarf ( handwoven out of ‘Peace’ silk) turned out a bit bland. One end took up the color and prints fairly well. The other end looks like blue and gray smudges. I’m going to over print it on Wednesday…… rolling it up from the opposite end.