Incoherent Scribblings

The Dyeing Bug

Though I haven’t stitched anything on it yet, I absolutely love that hand-dyed fabric Susie sent me for my birthday! I thought about joining the Silkweaver’s fabric of the month club, but the problem is, we don’t have a credit card.

When we got married and before we came to Germany, we both paid off our credit cards and decided not to get another. It is both a blessing and a curse: The blessing is that we don’t have any credit card debt; the curse is that in these times of digital shopping sometimes it can be very frustrating not be able to get something that I really “need.” (Like Silkweaver fabric!)
Anyway, since I can’t get the FOM, I have been doing a little bit of research here and there about hand-dyeing my own fabric. It seems pretty straight forward, but up until now I hadn’t taken the time to look up the necessary German vocabulary or to see if I could find the supplies at the craft store.

However, this morning when I was browsing blogs, I saw that Christine had hand-dyed some fabric and my dyeing-bug was rekindled. So I looked up my dyeing vocabulary and took a trip to the craft store where I finally bought some dye and all the accessories I need to attempt to hand-dye my own fabric (and if it works out maybe my own floss someday too!). I have some 27 count White Linda and some 14 Count White Aida that I will probably use for my preliminary dyeing experiments. No sense in ruining some good (and expensive) Linen if things don’t work out.

I think it should be fun, even if it doesn’t work out. However, I am hoping for the best because I get really tired of stitching on white and/or cream fabric most of the time!