a HA!!!

I FOUND it!

I knew that if I read enough of Melody's blog that I would find that she had generously shared her dyeing 'formula' with us plebes, and LO AND BEHOLD - she did! (Fibermania, then to Lazy Dyer, incase I forget!!)

I knew about the squeezy bottles and dish pans, but Gladware? Good to know! I NEED to do some dying for the perfect pink and orange for the quilts for my best friend's twin girls (9 months old already!), but I DO understand the need to "surrender to the dye" (Melody, duh), and that I will get lots of other perfect colors long before I actually get what I set out for!

Now here is the kicker... I want to do it TODAY. I have my little pots of MX dye, in - gack! I forgot to buy fuschia!!!! Sigh. Guess I just have lemon yellow, medium blue, and black. Kind of hard to make either pink or orange out of those! Blast it! Nor do I have PFD fabric. I was planning to try this all out with some muslin first (that 'play with stuff you don't care about' theory that works for both me and my non-existant budget), but now I need to go out to Williston (30 min) to get more dye first, then go to the market and get gladware, and *then* hope that Ben Franks is open by the time I get back (those lazy scrapbookers! Hah!) to get squeezy bottles that I just KNEW I should have gotten last time I was in there? Sigh. I even have soda ash!

Hm. Can I play with the muslin without doing anything to it first (other than the soda ash wash?) I *know* that it isn't PFD, but what *makes* something PFD? I know that that means that the sizing, etc has been washed out, but I dye my muslin all the time (with RIT, heaven help me) without doing anything fancy first. Maybe just posh fabrics get the presumed 'good stuff'? Who knows.

Anyway, I can feel my funk of these last two days creeping into my day today if I don't DO something, so... (Yes, I know that I should help DH with chainsawing our yard into submission, but, whine, do I *have to*? Yardwork sounds darned right funk spreading anyway, and I KNOW that he wants me to feel better, so... >:)

SO. Now I need to bite the bullet and actually get up the nerve to go do this dying thing. Mum even kindly sent me some pin money yesterday - and in big enough quantity that I can feel even downright virtuous spending such a small quantity of it on my funk-destroying-dye-day. Heck - this is WAY cheaper (maybe not with PFD fabrics, mind) than therapy, and has NO CALORIES!!! That does it. Time to get off my keister and make this DYE DAY HAPPEN!!!!!! (If I slow down or chicken out, give me heck and a big shove, ok? Thanks!)