Dye Pots are busy

 

From the neutral to the Red hot-more to come.

Enjoy Ebeth

New Color for From the Cauldron - Dames of the Needle

 

Busy pushing out trunk shows and order-but took a second to create a new color.  Introducing New England Bog.  This is a great color that will make your project pop.  I soooo love reds/cranberry colors.  Well I love most colors-baaaawwww.

Hop you have a wonderful moment.  Smile, laugh and eat chocolate-that will make everything better.

Hugs Ebeth

Well-here I am squirelling away in the Studio-

 https://youtu.be/cbYzFZuWIME?si=qh8tos89e5lfIKyI

Took the challenge and did another you tube. Just me being me. Ebeth

Get the popcorn and your favorite drink and watch me be a squirrel-maybe I will get more organized-

Remember-the design, color and whom ever police will not come after you when you change your piece to fit you....

Another Parade of Colors

Opalescent Winter's Dusk

This is another color that each piece comes out different in the variation of the moldeling of the color.  I love this color on Opalescent-it just screams Winter Frost.

My Ink Pen Leaked

Again-another organic color.  I start off with a dyed base and then spot dye other colors on top of the base.  This one is fun-because it can go lighter and darker and it always surprises how the spot dyes mix and shade the linen.

Bruin Lapin

Love this color-there is a hint of purplish brown and when it is a good dye day there is ever such a slight moldeling of the color.

Opalescent Miguel's Navy

Miguel's Navy alone is a wonderful color-but to dye it on Opalescent, what can I say but WOW.  It really makes the color pop.  You can use this for any season.  This color is also named for my son, Miguel-Which is Michael in spanish.  Yep-campy I know.  But what can you say.

Cosmic Platinum

Again another non repeatable organic color.  The dye is a three step process with chemical reaction to the fabric depending on how the chemicals settle on the fabric.  Each piece is a wonder by itself.  I almost want to frame each one of them.  It can be big and bold or it an come out scattered and smaller with its burst of color and shading.

Ida Neel's Cherries

This picture is the color on Aida.  It is richer on linen.  The color name comes from the summers I spent on my Great Aunt Ida's farm picking cherries off her trees.  My Great Aunt lived in the Appalachian Mountains on a farm that you had to cross over a creek by a wooden bridge.  Then you had to open a gate to the walkway and go about 1 to 2 miles up the side of a mountain on foot to get to her farm house.  You always had to look out for cow pies (cow poo) as the cows would wander down the trail to drink from the creek and well-nature happens.  I remember our fingers and clothing always got stained when we would pick the fruits from the trees.  She was an amazing woman.  She ran the farm by herself and if she did not grow it and harvest it or grow it and have it slaughtered she did not have it.  My Grand Mother and Grand Father would visit her once a month and bring in basic supplies and farm essentials.  It was always magical to spend a few days with her and run the farm.

Well this has been a short parade of colors-I hope you enjoy the descriptions and stories about each one of them.

Have a wonderful day.  Ebeth

 

Trims on Etsy

 

Italian Custard Mini Pom Pom 1 yard cut

Mild Chili 1/2 Rick Rack 3 yards

Mild Chili 1/4 Rick Rack 3 yards

Raspberry Pearls Mini Pom Pom 1 yard

Here are a few of my colors-more to come.....thank you Ebeth

Can be purchased from your local needlework shop or my Etsy Shop.

Birth of a new color

I so love the birth of a new color-I especially love it when I hit the color I wanted the first time.  It is also humbling-I was doing an act of kindness to help a client get a piece stitched for her.  The color is not available-so yep the chemistry part of my brain went into action.  I already had a color that was near where I wanted to go.  It just needed tweaking.  Well, after some color theory thinking-I realized to get there I had to do some change ups.

One this had to be an over dyed linen-that means that I was not going to start with white-ok-what base would mix with the colors to get me there.  I fortunately had a base that would work in my pile of unprocessed linen.  Great I did not have to wait to try my new experiment.

Next how to tweak the old recipe and make it work.  I realized that the orginial being beefed up would not work.  So, we are talking a double dip.  Now what do I need to mix to get the depth of the color I want.  I have to stay in the color zone-but different colors.  A little math-color theory and chemistry and bam-One try and the birth of Common House Sparrow happened.  

And yes I did the happy dance when it dried and it was the exact color I needed.  

I am again pleased to introduce you to Common House Sparrow.  

So, now I am off to dye more of this color and handle orders.  I truly thank all of you that support me and encourage me to keep working on my passion.  I am so grateful that I can do something I love and get rewarded for it.  

Hugs Ebeth

 

 As I stated in my recent post-requests for a catalog have been presented.  So, I am doing posts with walks through colors of linen.  I will start doing the same for my trim products and other items dyed and created by me.  Meanwhile-the website is still being worked on.  You can always contact your local shop or contact me directly for a color or an item.  

I hope you enjoy this small sampling of more colors.  Ebeth

Barnacle - This is part of the newish colors I developed this Spring.  That grouping was so big that I named it as a collection.  It is the Classic Shabby Chic Collection.  A couple of the linens from the previous post are from this collection - To be honest almost all of the linens from the previous post are from this collection.  Sorry, I missed marking them-I will put the names here Stained Grey, Rice Powder, Polar Bear, Dried Virginia Baccy, Colonial Blue and Aged Linen.  

As for Barnacle-the name just popped into my head when the linen came out of the dye bath.  I used to crew on my dad's sail boats and of course cleaning the barnacles off the hull is part of maintence of any marine vehicle.  Up in Virginia in the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic ocean the barnacles are smaller-ususally-and a cream white.  Barnacle just looks like the ones we would scrape off the hull before repainting the hull.

Dirty Ewe-what can I say about this one.  This and Peep's Lost Sheep were one of my first linen colors that I dyed.  When I first started I was overdyeing on Permin's Lambswool.  That was before it was woven by new weavers.  I based the name off Lambswool.  I miss dyeing on the old Lambswool, it was a flat thread and took the color amazingly.  Like I have said before Zweigart is a spun thread and it is harder for the color to grab the thread than a flat thread.  This is a wonderful neutral color and great for samplers and all other kinds of designs.  It for the most part is a flat dye.  Meaning there is usual very little molding in the color.  I can always see Miss Peep watching her sheep when I dye Dirty Ewe and Peep's Lost Sheep. (Peep's Lost Sheep will be posted in another blog posting.)

Mater Samich-OMG this is a Heirloom Tomato without the mayo.  I had a client looking for a linen to stitch Brenda Gervais's 'One Starry Christmas'.  The client found the called for linen a bit too dark for her.  She wanted a brighter color-So off to the dye room I went and I came up with Mater Samich and Hot Santa (Hot Santa will be on another post).  She ended up picking Hot Santa-it is a more cool bluish color that Mater Samich.  Mater Samich has that hot orange/red color.  I always imagine being with my family at the beach eating a Heirloom Tomato samich-white bread of course with salt and mayo on it and drinking a Grape Nehi out of the bottle sitting under the awning of my parent's RV by the beach.  We always kept the tomatos outside-so they were alway juicy and the first bite you could not stop the juice from running down your arms and the seeds just popped in your mouth.  What can I say-Virginia and the coast of North Carolina and South Carolina are the perfect places to eat that Mater Samich.

Mermaid's Firewood  This color came out of a grouping of Truffle Pig, Southern Pecan and a couple more.  I was in an experiment on how I could vary the same dyes and change up the amounts and the base color of the linen to see how they would vary in color when dyed.  When I pulled Mermaid's Firewood out of the bath it reminded me of old driftwood.  So who would use driftwood????  Why a Mermaid of course.  Hence Mermaid's Firewood.  This color always has a spark of surprise and uniqueness with every piece.  The way the dye mixes and sets on the linen can go from a dark hit to a lighter hit.  The modling is always different.  I just love imagining a Mermaid by a fire at night warming up before hitting the ocean and diving into the cold ocean to frolic with all the other creatures that she lives with.  

Virginia Mud Pie - Growing up on the coast of Virginia in peanut, soy bean, and tobacco country you have unique dirt.  It has a light black/grey coloring with sand mixed in.  I did not realize till I moved away from my beloved state to go further south that this type of dirt is unique to the more northern southern states.  Here in Georgia we have this dirt that is quite orangeish like clay.  The only time the dirt is another color is when dirt from other areas has been mixed in.  Here in Atlanta we are at the bottom of the Appalachian Mountain range.  Atlanta is almost as far north and west of the state as it can be.  It always surprises me that people think Atlanta is more toward the coast and closer to the bottom of the state.  We are a mountain area-not flat like the area I grew up in.  Trust me, take a bike ride you you will find out fast how hilly this area is.  And the dirt here is hard and clay like.  It is nothing like the coastal dirt that I grew up with.  When I dyed this linen Virginia Mud Pie just popped into my head.  Now as a good southern child growing up yes you always made mud pies.  Of course I had to bling mine out.  I broke into my piggy bank and my brother's and I took all the silver half dollars out and put them on top of my pies as decoration.  It would be an understatment to say I got into a lot of trouble when my mother found out what I had done.  Luckily all the half dollars were found and put back in their rightful piggies and I do not think I did that misadventure more than one or two more times.  Can we say hard headed.  

Well, thank you for reading about my colors and their names.  I am busy with organizing the pictures and taking more of all the linens as I have them on hand and will post more.  

As always, if you have questions please contact me and I will do my best to handle your request or answer your questions.

Off to the world of color, shipping and what ever mischief I can get into today.

Hugs Ebeth