Unveiling of Sun Jars

 This is what the jars looked like after sitting all night.  

 I guess I could have waited another day to unwrap it, but the weather was not cooperating and was supposed to be rainy for a few days.  Plus I couldn't wait!

The string does act as a resist - when you wrap the items as dry cloth/wool.  I think I might wrap with thicker string and more of it next time.

The darker spots are black walnut chunks, the orange comes from the direct contact of the fresh coreopsis flowers - as well as the yellow from goldenrod.

 I plan on sewing the long edges 1/3 together on both sides (a space unsown in the middle of the "tube") to make shawl/bolero type cover.

Sun Jar Dye

Sun Jar Dye

What better use of the sun but solar power dye.  Gather ye rose beds... or in my case goldenrod, marigold, coreopsis, black eyed susan and one black walnut cut into pieces, in each jar.

this is a piece of silk wrapped zig zag with tight string.  No rhyme or reason.  Pop it into the jar - had boiled some water and it had been sitting while I strng up the silk so it could cool a touch.   

 I had pre-mordant the silk and bits of wool in my normal alum and CoT.

 This is what it looked like after a few hours.  I plan to let it soak overnight and unwrap tomorrow...