Eco-Dying and Eco-Bundles

My eco-bundles are still sitting, wrapped and waiting.......nannie nannie boo boo!  Carol HAD to take hers up and open them.  I have to admit that I was REALLY tempted to rush out and open them.  Hers look amazing.

So in lieu of opening an eco-bundle I was going to take some silk and dye with those acorns that were boiled and have been sitting and mulching.  Or whatever the term is, waiting and leaching their brown-y goodness to impart to my silky fabric.

And this is what I found.  I was NOT a happy camper.  Franks SWEARS it was not him.  He blames it on critters.......I might need a critter hunt.  Where are the cats when you need them?



It must work well, it stained the concrete.  The non stained photo is the exact same concrete on the other side of the garage door.

and we have had two days of some serious rain and a couple of days of sun that beats on that space all day.



See the little bit of juice left? 
I  stuck a piece of silk in the dregs of what was in there. 

We shall see what happens with my silk.

Eco-Bundle Red

I put a second eco-bundle together this afternoon using the same silk and

beets (should do well as it totally stained my hands)

onion skins (they were white onions so I am not sure what that will do)

blood oranges  and avocado skins.

Yes, I had to eat two avocados for art's sake.........

And I took my walnut shells and acorns, beat them into submission with a meat beater and put them into a pot to boil.  They are not sitting outside "steeping". 

Them immediately turned a nice dark brown.......

Lots of nice happy things happening. 

If you take the center of the acorns and dry them, then grind them, you can make a very bitter flour that is edible.

Interesting stuff.