Leaf Dyed T Shirts with Up-and-Coming Model

Leaf Dyed T Shirts with Up-and-Coming Model

I hate it when folks stick their tongue out for photos, 
but what could I do since I didn't notice.

Little Bird

Little Bird

A Canadian TV miniseries premiered this past May
and is showing recently on public television.
If you get a chance please watch.
Based on a true story about
the 1960's scoop of Indigenous children
in Canada and the United States.
Sadly still happening in many instances to this day.
This brought back thoughts about my great grandmother
marching on the Trail of Tears.
Our government agencies should do better for Indigenous families.

Dots, Fairy Lights, & Tannin Discharges

Dots, Fairy Lights, & Tannin Discharges

I can't tell you how happy I was when I opened up this bundle after all the dismal attempts recently. I returned to a wrapped bundle rather than rolling on a heater hose because I couldn't keep the latter out of the water to keep it from wicking up water.

Cotton T shirt, AA mordant, chalk bath,

plastic barriers on back, inside, and front, steam 90 minutes. Leaves of ? looks similar to dogwood possibly a dogwood variety I am unfamiliar with,

(native tree in my yard, one of the last to lose it's leaves. I will take it to the ag extension office tomorrow to determine it's identity), also leaves of an ornamental pear.

I love the fairy lights on the ornamental pear (the halo effect at the edge of the leaf stem)

and the stem discharges on the mystery (dogwood?) leaves I especially love the beautiful dots on every mystery leaf. The t shirt is wet and freshly opened. Who knows what it will look like when it dries.

I love it all.

I was crying when I opened it all up

because by now you know how hard all of this is, especially when you are a beginner like me and traveling alone on the path due to necessity. I finally have something I actually love. Thanks for all of your encouragement.

Appreciative to Gary so willingly picking these last leaves. Grateful for small gifts.

Not Successful but Educational

Not Successful but Educational

This is the back of the latest t shirt in which the leaf dye ran.
I think my bundle was touching the water,
and it absorbed water through a wicking action.
The good news is the groups of 2 and 3 leaves are river birch
which I didn't know would print and not often used.
Notice the white (dot) halo effect at each set of leaves.
I learned this is called a 'fairy light' and it is the result
of tannin coming from the stem and making the halo effect.
The darker colored leaf prints are lavender, thyme, and privet.
The front of the t shirt is so pale not even worth showing.
I am hoping to over print the front and see what happens.
Keep going there is an educational moment in every attempt.