Ice Dyeing

Pat Hardie and I are doing a presentation at the OOTB meeting in March on snow and ice dyeing.  Last year she taught me how to do snow dyeing.   I've been doing more ice dyeing this winter because it's something I hadn't done yet.  Here are some photos of the process.

I've put some white cotton fabric in the bottom of the colander.  Then I put ice cubes on top.  I sprinkled Procion MX dye powder on top of the ice cubes.  Here you can see it melting.

And here is the finished fabric after setting and washing out the next day.  The patterns might be a little larger than with snow dyeing but I like it! Ready for use in any project.  Goes to show you it doesn't have to be winter for you to ice dye some fabric.