St. Helens Dye Day

I took last Friday off and carpooled with Linda Kirsch up to Mom's house for a dye day! Much fun and food was had by all! Check out what we did!
From Mary, we learned some basic Shibori dye techniques, which is very similar to tie-dying if you've ever done it.
Here is Carrie's scarf wrapped around an empty wine bottle (we had lots of those) using string. You dye the exposed parts of the scarf, then unwind it. Some people wrapped the same scarf several times in order to get different effects.

Here's Carrie's finished scarf after being unwound from the bottle:

Linda and Kirsten Peterson moving dye pots around...

Kirsten's finished scarf. She mixed colors until she ended up with beautiful shades of green and blue.

Sheila Ernst and Linda Kirsch untying their scarves after dying.

Here are the two I did. I think they turned out rather well! I've already worn the purple one twice and gotten lots of compliments. Great Christmas gift idea!


We had lots of great eats to sustain our creativity. Steve Peterson sent a yummy casserole with Linda, Jan brought raspberries from her garden, I brought homegrown lettuce along with pickled asparagus and potato chips, Linda Kirsch brought brownies, Anne brought wine, and Lindsay made this amazing chocolate cherry ganache cake. It was a wonderful day with friends!