Geode Tie Ice Dyeing
This story starts with the terrific suggestion of friend BG to try out some ice dyeing. For both of us it was the first time doing this dye technique. The pictures in this blog will all be of my project. She worked with rayon and I took linen curtains from the thrift store. The very first step, and not shown here, was to launder my piece of fabric. Although the fabric may be new, you want to remove all sizing and any possible dirt. I washed it with Synthrapol soap in the machine. In the first photo is a shot of dye day #1. Into four gallons of cool, softened water I put four cups of wash soda. Stir around to dissolve. Add the clean cloth and push it down repeatedly so it is submerged in the liquid. I left mine for about 30 minutes. Occasionally I shifted the fabric around a bit. Then I dumped out the mordant liquid, the wash soda in water. I wrung out the cloth as well as I could. My piece of cloth is a medium weight linen and measures 57" wide and 96" long. I decided o