Friday 26 April 2019

Raspberry Pink

While making dessert with some frozen raspberries I had a great idea!  (Doesn't happen very often!)  Why not try dyeing some fabric with some frozen rasps!


I put some fabric in a bowl, added a few frozen rasps and covered them with boiling water.  Then I stirred and stirred for a few minutes. 


Took the fabric out of the bowl and ran it under the cold tap.  Very important note to self -  if doing this again, put the rasps in some muslin so that all the little seeds don't get caught up in the fabric!!!!!!!


Ta da!  Got a lovely pale pink colour in my Aida fabric - all ready for my next cross stitch project.


Had any brilliant ideas recently?

Love, Liz

8 comments:

Sheila said...

That looks so pretty. Can't wait to see what you stitch on it.
Hugs-x-

kate steeper said...

If you chuck a fistful of table salt in the raspberry juice it helps to fix the colour

Mary said...

Such a pretty pink color! I had a good laugh about picking seeds out of the fabric....looking forward to seeing your pretty pink stitch. Mary@stitchingfriendsforever

Crimson Kettle said...

Fantastic!

Polyester Princess said...

What a lovely idea, Liz, although picking out the seeds can't have been much fun! xxx

Julie said...

Pretty spring pink

Raewyn said...

Gosh what a brainwave that was! The pink fabric is lovely - I'm guessing you will need to set the colour somehow?

RJ said...

You sure did get a lovely shade of pink, Liz. What a great idea too. Never thought about the seeds...LOL! Looking forward to see what you stitch on that lovely fabric. Hope you are having a lovely weekend. RJ@stitchingfriendsforever