Silk Scarves

We finally had enough sun that we could work outside, so after a little work on our masks, my granddaughter and I headed outside to try using color releasing tissue paper to dye silk scarves.  It was great, we really had a good time and learned a lot about how the papers work.

You lay the silk on a paper plate, add tissue paper and spray with water, folding the scarf back and forth, adding tissue in each layer.  It's hard to predict how far the tissue will dye, which is a big part of the fun.

 Selena pulled the papers off of her scarves right away and got some great colors and blending.  I love all the yellow that she used.  These are truly light as air and floating colors together was so easy using this method.








I left my papers on over night and got a saturated color.  I'm not sure that I like how you can tell where I folded the scarf over on itself, so I think I might re-dye the first one a little bit and try to get the lines out of it.  Otherwise I am really happy with the results.