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First of all, I got about four inches done on the baby blanket yesterday, which leaves me with about four more to do plus crochet an edging around it. Looks like I'll make my deadline!
We spent a bit of the morning cleaning out closets and such. It's time to buy school clothes and because all of us had dressers bursting at the seams, it was time to get rid of what was raggy, distasteful and ugly. Three large boxes of clothes and shoes left the building to be donated.
Then we took a break and had some fun:
We used the Tie Dye Cords from Dharma Trading Company. The process is very quick and easy. Lay out the cotton or cotton blend item. Lay the cords on the item in designs or randomly. Fold up the item, secure with rubber bands, and immerse in warm salted water. Let it get completely wet and squeeze the water through the item. The more squeezing the more dye saturation. The directions say to then place in a zip loc bag and boil for 20 minutes. We found that microwaving on high for four minutes also did the trick.
Run cool water over the item and unfold. Rinse in cool water until there is no bleeding (which is surprisingly very little). We then ran everything through a rinse cycle in the washer and dried in the dryer.
After we were done we saw lots of great applications: socks, underware, sweats, fabric for curtains, skirts, little girls dresses, etc. Some of the stuff we did had stains, etc., and now they look like new. So it's definitely an alternative to throwing out a favorite shirt that looks like a favorite shirt!
It think it would be a great way to decorate hand knitted dishcloths and hand towels, too!
It's a great project for kids with adult supervision and would be a hit at a birthday party or an art project at a school. One could do it with a microwave and a big bucket of water easily.
Anyway, we had lots of fun with it and my grand daughter (and her grandmother) got some "new" clothes and lots of ideas brewing in grandma's head!
Still no rain, high humidity at night, lower during the day and the evaporative cooler helps some.....
Amy, we are in the desert and most of the year the humidity is in the 20s with 25% being the average during the day. During July, August, December and January, tho, it gets much higher as that's our "rainy" season. Which 30 years ago meant a deluge every day for a couple of weeks. Now it generally means high humidity and maybe some rain, too. "The weather, it is a changin.'"
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Friday, August 10, 2007
August 10, 2007
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