This is the other method I tried for ice-dyeing prefelts over the weekend, you might want to take a look at the results before giving this a go, I won’t bother with it again :o(
- As before, I soaked my prefelts in water with 1/4 cup of vinegar and a drop of washing up liquid for every litre of water.
- A wire cooling rack was suspended on some old glass jars in a washing up bowl and my wet prefelts were arranged on top.
- Then a piece of nylon netting was stretched over the top using pegs to secure it.
- Ice was tipped on top of the netting so that it covered the felt below.
- Yellow, red and blue acid-fast dye powder was sprinkled over the ice, I used about twice as much yellow as red or blue.
- I waited, and waited for the ice to melt, it looks really pretty at this stage:
- The netting was removed and I put the icky brown mess into a zip lock bag.
- Then I dropped it into my urn that was just bubbling and left it for 90 min.