Creating my Colors (and my veggie garden)

Hand-dyed Fabric in the Dye Bath

Dyeing

This weekend I finally found time for my first fabric dyeing session of the season. It needs to be at least 70 degrees to dye fabric, and preferably much hotter, so this is a summer time only event.

In the last 4 hours I’ve dyed about 60 yards of fabric and now its going to sit in the sun and create deep rich colors.

My Yard

I completed my home remodel over 2 years ago and am just now getting my landscaping to a point that I can use my yard.

Behind the dye bins you can see my pumpkin patch. You need to look very closely to see the baby plants that just popped out a few days ago.

I planted very late and I’m counting on global warming to help me out this year. Lets all hope for a late frost.

Here is the rest of the garden. This is what it looked like a week ago:

Vegetable Garden – June 24, 2011

And now today. Yay! It’s growing.

Vegetable Garden – July 3, 2011

Most everything is doing well other than the peppers. They seem unwilling to grow much. I started them from seed and they sat indoors way too long but so did the tomatoes and those are most cooperative.

Here is a bit more late planting. I can’t recall what all of this is but I’m sure it will be yummy.

Vegetable Garden #2 – July 3, 2011

 
I’ve got some veggies in the front yard also but they aren’t photogenic yet, some aren’t even planted yet. Tomorrow it’s cucumber day as I just got a cool trellis for them to grow on.

It’s wonderful to finally have a yard again, and even better – a veggie garden. Later this fall I hope to plant some trees but for now, this is about it for green things.

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