Experiments With that Old Fabric

I cut squares and then used what I had here in the house to make little "dye" packets.  The top one in a small dab of blue paint and a dry used tea bag.  Wrapped in foil.  Steamed.  The second row was layered with very dry onion skins.  I wet the squares (water) and then stacked them like an onion skin sandwich.  Wrapped in foil. Steamed.  Row three is wet squares and dry used tea bags.  Row four is wet squares and a small drop of pink paint.  The onion skins worked out very well.

I had asked G for rusty nails or wire.  Either he didn't have any or he didn't hear me.  So, rusty things will happen the next time.  There is a fifth packet but it's slow.  I smashed fern fronds trying for threads of yellow green on the squares.  It might still happen.

I have dry (used) coffee grounds (grinds) and I am going to try that.  Also more onion skin sandwiches because that yellow bronze color is quite lovely.  Everything has been pressed with steam iron.  I stitched the squares so the thread shows at the seams.  I used green thread.  I don't know what this will "be".  Right now it just "is".   I don't have a vision of anything as yet.  Could also clip seams and resew into more of a square.   I think I had intended to make a square but got lost along the way.

These are the plain squares I cut and stitched together.  The colors you see are the stains the fabric had from sitting for years and years.  The inside yardage is yellowed but not dark.