at least for a couple days. Our total was about 12", more than enough to need attention. The sun came out brightly and helped melt a bit where the plow guy had salted, so my car is ready to go.
I spend my snow days dyeing more fabric. Some pieces I hope to use in a quilt for a SAQA regional exhibit - they turned out close to what I wanted but will work. Then I took advantage of all this snow to try snow dyeing. Here's the set up. I piled the snow on and packed it down, then poured the dye concentrate on the snow and waited.
Here's the result, folded in half to show different parts.
It's okay. I definitely need to play more with this. I feel more confident with the ice dyeing technique. I've done more of that and feel I can control the colors more. I will think about
Busy weekend - lots of fun and lots of driving. The quilt retreat time was fun and productive. I made considerable progress on the color wheel challenge and almost came to like red-orange. Photos later.
On the way home (with a 40 mile side trip), I went to the monthly meeting of the art/contemporary bee with my other guild and saw some other color wheel challenge pieces in progress. Great stuff! Our twelve quilts will make a wonderful exhibit in August at the Guild's show.
And today it is snowing! Enough winter! However, I am going to take advantage of this and do some snow dyeing. I need some backing fabric for my marsh pieces - I will use some new dyes in marshy colors. This is my usual bookkeeping job day, but the snow changed that. So I get to play. Woo Hoo! I hope I'll have photos in a day or two of newly dyed fabric.
The other news of the weekend is that my oldest grandson just bought his first car. Oh, how time flies - wasn't he just putting legos together and playing little league!!!! He's a good guy and I am happy for him making this step of independence.
Karen
