Snow Day

This is what we woke up to today.

And it's still coming down.  So what do you do on a snow day, other than shovel?

Snow dye!!  The soda carbonite, also known as soda ash, I purchased for the previous snow dyeing attempts had hardened to a rock.  Fortunately, I had purchased a blender for my paper-making experiments so I used the ice-breaker feature and pulverized a cup of soda ash, mixed it with a gallon of warm water and now have several whitish fabrics of varying types (i.e. not sure what type of fabric but they have a texture/weave).  The fabrics will soak for another hour or so.  Then I will drain and squeeze out the water, fold much like tie dye, place on an oven rack (dedicated for dyeing, paper, etc.) cover with snow, pour liquid dyes leftover from other experiments, over the snow and let the snow melt and carry the dyes into the fabric.  Am I excited?  Not really.  It's never really worked for me before but hey, there's always hope.

Under the snow, fabric is hiding.

And now the dyes have been splashed on top.
 

And now we wait for the snow to melt.

The result?  EPIC FAIL.

The colours washed away.  I don't know if the soda ash and/or paints were no longer viable.

I had fun preparing it, but I think my snow dyeing days have ended.