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I don't know if this would work very well on hair, but you can always try it 🤎 If you have success, let us know!

What an absolutely lovely comment for you to share, Joana - thank you so much 🌻💚🌼🤎🌸 Welcome to the Color Quest family!!

Would be so amazing to have you join us, Eb! Will cross fingers 🤎🤎🤎

Wish you could join us in Maine this September, but I will be sure to film as much as possible for Color Quest 🤎 I'm excited to share my natural color adventures from Spain too - was incredible 😊

@@MargaretByrdColorQuest I wish I could but until my husband retires he comes two weekends per month and the other days I live alone on the farm and have to look after my garden, my dogs and my cats. I can't go away and leave them alone 😔

How awesome to hear - welcome to Color Quest! Best of luck - you got this 🌼

You bet! Welcome to Color Quest 🌼 Coreopsis and sulfur cosmos are great pH shifters, but marigold doesn't have the same sensitivity. You might see a slight brightening with acidic shifts, but nothing drastic. Why not experiment and see what you find?

Awwww....would love to have had you along in Baja, but the Azores seems like a perfect place for us to meet and play with natural color in 2025 😘 I am trying to move around the globe a bit in hopes of meeting more of our Color Quest family in person. Of course, the Scottish Highlands or Lake District would also be wonderful destinations, so I can put them on my wish list for 2026 and beyond 🌼🤎🌼

@@MargaretByrdColorQuest wonderful 🥳💕

How awesome to hear! I just love pH shifting with natural color. Hope you have a chance to experiment with some other traditional organic dyes that are more long-lasting 💜💙💚

You are a sweet soul, Malathie 🌼 Happy you could join us virtually through this video. Would love to have had you along!

Never too old to celebrate our native land 🤎 Thank you for your sweet shout-out 🌻

Such a beautifully written comment - thank you! I'm so happy you could feel the amazing energy and be with us in spirit 🌼🤎🌼

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So sweet of you to say - welcome to Color Quest 🌼 Silk is by far the simplest fiber to work with in eco-printing, so enjoy experimenting with charmeuse. You are going to love it!

Thanks for the question, Deb 😊 Iron is a natural mordant, so since rust is a form of iron oxide, it is considered to be very colorfast and stable.

Absolutely not - this iron water is only to be used for natural dyeing projects and should be handled carefully as it can be irritating to the skin.

Thanks so much for being here with us at Color Quest 🌼 Great question regarding neutralizing CALX. As a high level alkaline, you could try neutralizing it by slowing adding water and a citric acid solution or a natural acid like vinegar or lemon juice. I am unable to give you a measurement, but if you have access to litmus paper, you can check to make sure the solution is back to a neutral pH before disposing of it.

This is such a sweet and tender story in the midst of the sorrow of losing your cherished cat - thank you for sharing ❤ I love how the universe gently points us to the beauty around us in her mysterious ways if we open our hearts. May the madder root bring about gorgeous shades that will be a living memory of your precious pet.

Thank you so much for helping to identify some of our shared flora 💚 I should have remembered Oregon Grape since I harvested it for color in the summer months a few years ago, but without its fruit, it was just a prickly bush 😊

Great questions, Jane 🌼 Soy milk as a binder is a great option for cellulose fibers like cotton if you do not have tannin or alum as mainstay mordants in your studio. Although I have found color results to be lighter with soy milk, using high tannin dye matter like pomegranate is a great option for deeper colors. Pomegranate is used as a tannin mordant, so you get the double binding power of both. I suggest you stick with other easily sourced high tannin dyes like onion skins, avocado skins/pits, black tea, etc to play around with the process. One very important tip is to always make sure your fibers are well washed and wet when you do any dyeing as this helps with the best color uptake. Have fun!

​​​​@@MargaretByrdColorQuest Thanks for your reply. So when I get ready to dye my t shirts, I simmer them in the pomegranate skin dye for an hour; then let them stand in the dye bath overnight. I have another question: I am planning to tie dye a couple. Are there any precautions I should take with the tie dyed shirts, or is it okay to let them sit in the dye bath that long? There won't be too much of a chance of the dye bleeding into the tied areas?

​@@janesawyer1342 Yes - heat is an important part of the process in natural dyeing to encourage color from the dye matter and help in adhering to the fiber. Time is also a great way to deepen the color, so I often let my fibers sit in the dye bath as it cools and often overnight. You will not hurt the fiber doing this - you can pull it out when you are satisfied with the color. Remember though, wet fiber will look darker and will lighten when it dries. You will want to make sure your tie dye is binded very tightly and/or there are a lot of fiber folds to keep areas 'protected' from dye seeping into the tied area. It is always possible you will have some seepage since the fibers will be wet, but this also gives a lovely gradient effect. You could skip the step of wetting out your fiber before/after binding it which is typically recommended for better dye uptake, but might minimize the wicking effect. My best advice is to experiment and be open to any result you may get as a wonderful gift of color from nature 😊

@@MargaretByrdColorQuest Thanks. I did go ahead and tie dyed a couple of tee shirts. I am pleased with the main color, but yes the tied parts are a little washed out. I am going to see if I can make them look better by bleaching the tied areas with bleach and a q tip.

Or, I could leave them be and iron on beautiful transfers on the fronts.

There are two videos that show how these samples were made on my channel (referenced in the description). The short was created to invite natural color enthusiasts to Color Quest. Enjoy 🌸

Yes, it was all of those on this magical journey!

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You are most welcome - enjoy!

Sweetest comment ever! Thank you so much for being such an awesome part of Color Quest 🌼

Yes, of course! I've also had it curdle on me, so definitely store in the coolest space you have, and feel free to shorten the time the fiber is in the soy milk as well.

Yes, no problem at all. A little water added to the spin dry will not bother soy milk bind 😊

Welcome to Color Quest! In this video, the leaves were fresh so I didn't do anything to them, but you can rehydrate them in water before using them which can help with printing. You can also soak them in an iron or acidic bath (vinegar) for color modification. Always fun to experiment and try different techniques 😊

Thanku ma'am

I feel so very lucky, and its double fun to share it with you, Debora, and the whole Color Quest family 💚

Welcome to Color Quest! Many thanks for sharing more about the magic of oak galls 🐝

Welcome to Color Quest, Chris! Creating black from natural colors typically involves iron and over-dyeing. I've never tried it with onion skin as the base color, but go check out my video on making black with pomegranate and logwood as an overdye to see one way of doing it 🤎

Perfectly said, Malathie - always love to hear from you 🌸💕😊

Awesome question, Jasmine 🌸 I have only worked with safflower 'successfully' in this video and I definitely leeched out much of the yellow first. It sounds like you are experimenting which is the only suggestion I would have - try it out with a very small amount of petals to see if you can go straight to an alkaline bath soak with an acidic neutralizer and achieve pink or some combination of yellow/pink, ie. deep orangey red hues? Let us know how it goes!

@MargaretByrdColorQuest so I thought it was a total failure. The whole batch was still yellow after neutralizing it. So the next day I dumped it out in my compost pile and a swatch of linen came out onto the compost pile, dyed red! I don't know how it even got in the vat. But even though the vat still looked yellow and the fibers came out yellow when I dipped them in, apparently with time, the process did work and they did become red/ pink with soaking. So I scraped as many petals as I could back out of the compost to try again and have a newly neutralized bath with fibers in it, trying again. This had been my second attempt with safflower so maybe I was too quick to think it was another failure. As far as achieving red/ pink without the yellow extraction, the jury is still out. I don't believe it worked. I did half my dyestuff with a yellow extraction and half without, and they were mixed together for the red extraction. At the end of the red extraction, the first (yellow) petals looked dull and cooked and spent, but the others were still red and vibrant, so I don't believe they did anything, in the end

@@jasminehoover5359 Thank you so much for sharing more of your experimentation 🌸 I totally understand how you thought the dye had not shifted to a true pink/red. Although I could see a change as I neutralized it, it stayed more in the orange realm, so I was also wildly surprised to see the hot pink colors that attached to the fibers 💕 The initial hint I got was the dye stain on the paper towel that was pink from where the dye had spilled a bit 😊 So happy you kept going - learn by doing is always the way to figure things out and have fun along the way! I may try jumping straight to pink next time I play with safflower in my dye studio - will let you know 🤎

Can't stop...won't stop! Wanderlust is in my blood 😊 Definitely give it a try the next time you are out and about, Barbara!

My pleasure, Yvonne - welcome to Color Quest 🌼 I inherited this iron vat already made at the Indigofest I attended last August, so I'm not sure where they sourced the indigo powder. I buy mine from Botanical Colors and Maiwa which both sell 100% natural indigo and have built vats from both 💙

You are most welcome 💙💙💙

Excellent suggestion! I just did the same while traveling in April to make hammer printed postcards from flowers along the way 🌼

@@MargaretByrdColorQuest wow what a wonderful concept!!! ✨

@@theianyx6394 Was lots of fun too!