Ingredients for guacamole...
Ingredients for a dye pot!
Avocado pits and skins simmered in a water bath,
with premordanted wool
dyes a beautiful peachy apricot color.
Cochineal crushed,
tiny little dried bugs from the cactus of the South West.
I folded wool and placed plastic hearts (on each side of the fabric) as a resist.
Two different cochineal pots with two different wool heart fabrics to dye. The second pot I placed a squeezed lime in the dye. When I was in the South West they taught adding the lime juice to the dye would make your wool redder. We'll see, the results next week:)
Thursday bee last week we finished beading ornaments that Mary started for us.
She had cut and stitched winter/Valentine fabrics,
we stitched on beads to hold the sides together and make the shape.
This was a fun sparkling project to share on a dark winter night. Thank You Mary!
See the pink pin cushion on the table, my friend Jamie made that for me and my friends in my other quilt bee. Thank You Jamie.
What great Valentine presents.
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