Snow dyeing

A few weeks ago I went to my friend's house and she showed me how to do snow dyeing.  The snow was kind of melting so it was quite granular.  I'm very pleased with the results.  Here are some of the photos of my dyed one metre pieces. I've laid two fabrics side by side below.

The dye is poured onto a layer of snow on top of a piece of fabric and as it melts the colours create colour and patterns on the fabric.

 

Here's a closer photo of the pink fabric above.

 

For the orange fabric below I only used two colours but for the rest I used three.  Three seems to be the magic number before you start creating muddy combinations. Although muddy might be fun. Today I'm using some of my leftover dyes to snow dye much smaller pieces of fabric.  Step by step photos and results to follow tomorrow.