After reading so many posts on Ravelry in the Plants to Dye for group I have attempted some Black Bean dyeing.
The first pic is on white Classic Elite Lush.(the smooth yarn) I did heat the beans and was to impatient to let it cool before I tossed the yarn in.
I let it set over night and got periwinkle!
The fuzzy yarn is Artfibre's Gypsy in natural, this yarn I had previously soaked in beet juice and sat watching it fade to an antique cream colour, in curiousity I put the yarn cake in the bean pot to see what would happen this morning I pulled out what looked to be a mouldy stone.
after squeezing out as much liquid as I could and rinsing them till the water ran clear, I un-caked the silk into a hank to dry. The bean juice did not go into the center of the cake and as you can see i have a faded ghost colour that is kind of interesting.
I definatly need to do this again with more patience
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