Dyeing to Weave

I decided I would like to be doing a little weaving again. I got some lovely Pima Cotton a little while ago when someone was destashing. I didn't want to work with just one color . . . so I decided to use some of my cotton dyes (Jacquard Procion MX).

Here are a couple group pictures. I attempted to dye: red, blue, yellow, orange, purple, and green. I have only red, yellow, and blue powder dye so the secondary colors had to be mixed.


It's a little difficult to tell the orange and the red from each other in the pictures. In this second one, the orange is in the middle.




I only had a small annoyance in the dyeing process. I think there might have been something wrong with my blue powder mix. It was used to dye the blue and then mixed with either red or yellow to make purple or green. All three of these have a variegated look. The red, orange, and yellow all dyed perfectly. Otherwise all of the dyeing process was the same for every color. I will try again in the future . . . buy might order different bottle of blue first.













All of these colors are going to be worked onto the loom, which I have just barely started dressing:




The warp is the same Pima Cotton, but not dyed by me, color is natural.

I figure I will make one or two practice kitchen towels.