Okay, aside from having contractors thunking through, over, under, and any other preposition you can name, and taking Valentine's Day off as a special treat for myself (hah! the joke was on me-- I had no idea all those prepositions would be going on during my Valentine's Day) I decided to do something I haven't done in years-- dye some fabric.

They all turned out pretty well, but you can't tell from the pics. I ended up scanning them because my digicam doesn't take extreme closeups. Sigh.








The purple was the last one I dyed, and it obviously had something going on, because it came out 2 different colors. Gee, do you think it might be because I left it outside too long, and the sun shone full on one half of it? I forgot it was out there.

The piece with the circles is my favorite-- it's actually a yellow-green between and around the rings. And the pink with all the colors on it is good, too.

If you can see all sorts of wavy lines running through a pic, it's just a sort of strobe effect from the lighting in the scanner-- this fabric is actually sheeting, just plain straight woven material. It all looks a lot better in person.

But I got it all done. Plus some other stuff I'd been planning to do. It was hard, though, because the water kept having to be shut off. Fun. I never realized how much water we use on a normal basis until I couldn't use it anymore.

I ended up going to the store and buying 10 gallons of water. That worked, but I got pretty stingy with it! People had to convince me they really, really needed it before I'd let anyone use it. I went a little crazy, I admit.

And, despite my plans being completely overrun, I had a good Valentine's Day. Especially not having to go in to work!