T Stands for Tuesday and My Found Hand Dyes

Good morning T party friends and all that stop by

   Tuesdays is where we share a drink related post with friends, just show a photo of your tea, coffee, water bottle or what ever beverage you are drinking. Join us with our hostess Bleubeard and Elizabeth-find link in my right hand column 
    You are most welcome to join the T Party.

   I have been busy accomplishing things since Friday. If you missed it I started in on my craft room in one section to purge and organize. This will be a long process-you would not believe what all I have in here ha ha Post here  I uncovered quilt projects I no longer want to make, and I found buried my lovely hand dyes and my rust dyes I did probably around 2008 or so. I was really into rust dyeing on vintage fabrics and found fabrics at the resale shop I wrapped rusty objects around vinegar-water soaked fabrics. I also soaked fabrics and stuck them on to rusty equipment etc I found outdoors. These pieces all processed during a very very hot summer like we have now. About every hour or so I went back outdoors and soaked or sprayed on more vinegar.  I will share some pieces with you today.

   Saturday I got out my two dutch ovens and baked sourdough gluten free bread post here  over and under the coals since we had cooler temperatures. I had planned on also baking a lemon meringue pie afterwards but I decided that was a big project too and saved it for today.

  I was hoping to share my first eco dye project with you today but we are back to the super hot and humidity and seems now after one big project I am not up to a second one-older age I guess but I am blaming it all on the weather ha ha  
    So after our 2 pm dinner and feeding the wildlife I decided to work on my hand quilting and remember what stencils I had planned on using instead.
   I am all set though, with all my supplies and how I want to proceed-for the most part-I even collected allot of leaves this morning-hopefully they will still be nice for tomorrow-I may just put those in the frig. overnite. I also bought rit dye for the water-I feel like i am cheating though using that but seeing the results I may still do that. I also dug out logwood dye that I have not used as of yet and also pomegranate for dye as well-so I may use one of those instead. I will decide tomorrow.

I thought I would share with you some of my uncovered hand dyes. Some of you that followed me in the past may remember some of them. I had sold several pieces as well at the time.

These are rust dyes

This was a very old vintage fabric I didn't care for so I rust dyed it still have not decide how to create with this piece

I had been given a huge huge bag of fabric interior decorator samples-cottons linens, poly-those were fun to rust dye over

This is an old curtain

I also had uncovered my most favorite hand dyes ever-my first  experience with procion dyes and dyed in gradation. They were so beautiful I just couldn't cut them I did end up using some of them in a quilt with batiks I have about 6 whole pieces left-they were fat 1/8th's-and I have a few scraps left

a sun dyed piece using setacolor from France with rock salt on top of the dye

I had forgotten about these-a couple pieces left that I had flower pounded one of the first years we retired here back in '04-'05 Most all of the colors are now gone except the greens.

and at the bottom of the pile were these fabrics that I shared this month on second on the 2nd-I need to make a quilt with these

For my beverage I am sharing a photo of my water bottle with mineral water inside. I was sitting outdoors keeping an eye on the dutch ovens with bread inside

And a little cuteness to share.  

    Mama deer has brought up the twins this week. I have corn out for them every evening now. They are around a month old now I would guess-if they are the same ones I saw on the driveway that were so small.

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Happy T Day everyone

Lemon meringue pie with almond crust being served