There has been some more bundle cooking for my friend. She handed over these massive bundles–they are bedsheets. We’d walked over to visit with a bale of straw for our friends’ hens… and walked back with the bundles and cartons of fabric. I spent time helping a friend clear out her Mum’s sewing room recently and since then have been finding new homes for sewing machines, yarn, fabric and a wide array of other items. Some of my fellow guildies were delighted to take possession of tapestry bobbins…
Here are the parcels going into the pot, packed with dried leaves. My friends have an E Scoparia at the end of their street, and that’s what was inside the bundle… leaves and some bark, too!
Some time later…
And being unbundled!
One had remarkably little in the way of distinct leaf prints. I am amazed that there was enough dye in those leaves to colour so much fabric. Unrolling…
Flapping about over the lawn, wet from the dye pot…
The second one had some prints in closest to the centre of the bundle.
Glorious! A third immense bundle has gone home with my biggest pot, for some time on a gas burner. I love that big pot but it just doesn’t work with my electric burners. This is going to be one fabulous set of sheets!
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Love your blog! Did you use a mordant on the sheets? Regards, Anne
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Thanks, Annie! Surely-they would not take colour otherwise. These were soy mordanted.
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And the lovely thing is that even after laundering, the eucalyptus scent lingers…
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I love that part, too. I have reports of a hand spun and hand knit jumper that still gives off a lovely scent years after its travels through the dyepot and my fingers!
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Love the idea. Boring sheets turned spectacular.
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I think so too!
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Gorgeous!
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Thanks!
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Oh MY!! I love these……..I need some Eucalyptus leaves!!!
Wrong part of the world 😦
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Eucalypts haven’t reached you? I have been amazed at the places they have turned up or been taken. Thanks for you kind comment!
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that’s fantastic! I never knew eucalyptus would create such vibrant colors!
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Thanks! Isn’t it incredible?
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