GD: Amethite (Rosalinde`s upgrade:)

As I had promised, I`ve redone my linen blend Rosalinde. I wanted the colours to be stronger, so I subjected her to another dip.
This is what my Hematite and Amethyst looks now:






And it`s going to America!

GD: Atlantis

I just adore Ellevill`s Zaras and the way they dye-to me, they`re perfect for gradations, they absorb colours in the right way.
I also love blue in all shades, especially those warm seas turquoises, teals, aquamarines, cobalts... So when I got another Zara white, I knew exactly what colours it would be.
I decided to make it a three colour gradation, with tropical turqouoise in the middle and as a base; deep cobalt on one side and intensive teal on another.
Mixing the dyes was also fun-I used Cobalt Blue, Medium Blue, Aquamarine, Turquoise, Robin`s Egg and Teal-that`s a lot of colours! But the result I think, was worth it.
I`ve named it Atlantis, as it reminds me of the mysterious island described by Plato.











I am happy Atlantis has found its` home ...

GD: Peonies

This is another Chiara-somehow I cannot make them perfect, even though they seem to be the easiest wraps to dye!
Anyway, the middle is rather dip dyed than gradation dyed, which created interesting effect of torn flower petals. The green is Avocado with a tiny bit of Teal (which left slightly darker bluish patches here and there), and the purple is my mixture of Marine Violet, Deep Purple and Cobalt.

GD: Hematite and Amethyst

This is another gradation done on Didymos Rosalinde. 50% linen and lots of really hard work!
On the pink side:



And on the grey side:



Although I am quite happy with the result, Rosie will have another dip when the Dharma dyes finally arrive from the US. I want her to be more charcoal and more eggplant!

GD: Morning Rose

I bought this pretty Indio Natur wrap not really wanting to dye it, as I liked it very much the way it was.
But in the end I decided to change it, as I wouldn`t be using it too much anyway.
So here`s Morning Rose, in fact a four colour grad, created with the use of Emerald Green, Avocado, Raspberry and Brown Rose:








Morning Rose was adopted by Iza, a very talented dyer, which is a great compliment!

GD: Iris

I was asked to dye this wrap by one lovely mama who really knew what she wanted-and chose the most beautiful, but difficult colours:)
Teal and Purple-both dark, rich and intensive-that`s a challenge!
I composed this special Purple out of Marine Violet, Deep Purple and Cobalt Blue-the idea was to make it rich but not too pinky, and purples tend to turn pinkish sometimes...
Teal was just teal, and as it turned out, one dose was not enough-the linen in the wrap (Indio Ice) drank it quite vigorously. So the teal part had be re-dyed-with Teal again, just to make it deeper.
This was version 1, with a different name then...



And this is how it looks now-a bit darker on the teal side:

GD: Turquoise Fields

Indio hemp arrived BNIB as a trade for our Zara OOAK, with which I didn`t get along really.
Hempy was quite sturdy and didn`t seem to like cooperation, so after the first wash, I grad-dyed him (him?:) using pale colours (knowing that I would be redying him later!), just to check how he liked it: Robin`s Egg and Pearl Grey.
Hempy drank all the dye and turned half pale bluish and oyster brownish-grey.
Real beast.
In the afternoon then, I slightly changed my approach and another gradation (over-gradation, should I say?) with the use of Turquoise and Chocolate appeared to work.
This is how he looks now: