Fresh from onion broth 洋蔥湯染

 

To do natural dye, nothing is easier than onion.  A 3D vessel and a pair of baby shoes are fresh from the onion dye pot.

 

Other than wool batts, I felted the vessel with raw fleece while the shoes with little scraps of silk chiffon for textures.

 

Grabed some onion skins to boil for a while with little vinegar.

 

Bundled the  vessel and shoes tightly then put into the dye pot.  Simmered 30-min for the booties while the vessel an hour to get strong color.

 

Unbundled the shoes.....

 

and the vessel...... tight tie lines are what I wanted.

 

My sketch.....All white, alright and turn to bright.......  that's what I wanted.

 

Silk chiffon after dyed, a little brown then wool.

 

All the looks......

 

So, the longer and the more onion skins the stronger the color.

 

A pastel color can be achieved with little onion skins and only dipped a while in the dye pot. 

Last blog for this dress dyeing.

Baby booties and slippers 寶貝小鞋子

"Come on, follow me, follow my big steps........"

寶寶快高長大,  小腳仔學行, 親手做一雙小鞋子給寶貝踏出第一步,  沒多久不合穿了, 把小鞋子留下是多甜美的留念....

長大些, 再做一對小童室內鞋, 總也可穿上兩年哩 ! 

 Baby grows up and thriving.  For the shoes under two obviously have to change every few months before it wore out.  It's so sweet to make a pair for the baby on it's first step and keep the shoes as a beautiful keepsake.

 I made the booties with wool, that's wet felted.

Tied with shoelace.  Fold down as little shoes 

Tiny booties on my hand.  It's for baby under 18-month, I suppose.

A toddle needs bigger slippers



Slippers made with merino wool, blue as deep sea & skies.  White mulberry silk strings for the sheen of wave. 

Both the little and the big pairs are shaped with one same mould.

The yellow plastic slippers are size 16cm.  Bought it in a chain shop for only US$2, really a good buy.   I made the little booties,  after all the rubbing, stuffed with bubble wraps and finally shaped it inside the plastic slipper.  Bootie size thus smaller than 16cm.

For the toddle's slippers I shaped it over the whole plastic.  So the size is bigger than  16cm 

Both pairs are hand-stitched with anti-slip protector

Mogi, "I don't know what are these for, we don't have any baby or toddler.  Mum just asked me to show you. ~.~"

Mogi, "I know I'm being loved or spoiled I'm a star...... My facial expression are true.  Mum uses quick shooting ........'

Well,  slippers are made to challenging myself .

Time to walk away, until next time.....