Mixed results

     We tried round three of ice dyeing. My daughter-in-law and granddaughter wanted to do more shirts and some onesies for my daughter's new baby. I wanted some fabric for quilts- some watery blue greens. We all soaked them the same, put them on the same bins, covered with the same ice, sprinkled with the same dye.

     However, the results were mixed. The shirts, a long piece my daughter-in-law did, and the onesies came out fine. My pieces came out like bad lime headaches. We did not use green, but the blue and yellow mixed awful sickly. I did all the set up, wash out, etc and was left very disappointed.

     Katie's big yardage piece that she wants to use on the wall came out fine despite that the right side had white printing on it. The backside looked fine.

See the white print that resisted the dye? Back side worked great

     My two half yards and fat quarters are a real disappointment. I don't know if I should re-dye or just forget.

The flower shape is more sickly green than it is here, not really so yellow.

Putting on the color- the shirts

     The ice dyeing shirt results were varied and brightly colored. My daughter in law worked with the kids- she mostly did the folding. They were surprised how they came out and have worn some of them already.

Call it colorful

     The fabric ice dyeing results were certainly not wimpy or pastels. I do love bright color. The pieces were about 22 x 21. I did not know how certain folding techniques would work, so I did not go larger. I am so surprised how clear and clean the colors look even though the melted ice water looked pretty mucky. I will show the kids' shirt results on the next post. I think I would like to try bigger pieces next and learn some more folding techniques.