Wanda's Stacks - a Dyeing Method

Stacks After 

 Stacks before

Stacks

I like to do a bit of organizing when making stacks. Please make them any way you wish.

I used a variety of textures that ran from dark to light in the same colour family. It is hard to tell the value of textures sometimes but I choose my dyes carefully to influence my choices. I dyed them laying the dark wool on the bottom and working through the values to the light. This way I can have a variety of values to work with that relate.

You Need:

flat pan long enough to lay your wool almost flat ( wrinkles are GOOD !) Try an 8x8"cake pan!

6 Dyes or combos of  Majic Carpet Dyes, one each for each layer

Citric Acid

6 pieces of wet wool 1/16th yd. each 

Directions

Lay the darkest piece of wool, Value 6, in your pan. 

Prepare 1/32 tsp. Turquoise in 1/2 cup of very hot water with a sprinkle of citric acid.

Pour this dye over layer one. Try to spread it around fairly evenly.

 Place the next wool layer  ( Value 5 ) straight onto the first one.

Prepare 1/32 tsp. Bottle Green  as directed above and pour over this layer.

Continue laying on the values of wool and the dyes:

Value 4  is dyed with 1/64 tsp Bottle Green +1/64 tsp. Moss Green

Value 3  is dyed with 1/32 tsp. Moss Green

Value 2 is dyed with 1/128th tsp. Moss Green  1/32 tsp. Yellow

Value 1 is dyed with 1/128th tsp. Turquoise + 1/32 tsp. Yellow

Place in oven uncovered at 350˚F until the water clears.

Don’t forget to use really hot water while mixing the dyes, it makes the dye take up quickly.

I encourage you to try this any way you want to over any wool and dyes you have.

Try using different colours of dye and the same colour of wool.

I have variations with this great quick method that will make even more majic for us coming soon!