November Bouquet - My Work

Because I have fresh flowers in out mountain cabin year-round, I've decided to use them to eco-dye with at the tail-end of their freshness. 

 I divided this bouquet into 2 equal parts and used it on 2 vintage pillowcases I'd rescued from a thrift store.  Both cases had wonderful crocheted edge treatments that would also absorb the dye.  

Above is how they looked after day one of being bundled tightly around a copper pipe.

Below is after being left out of doors in the weather for a 2 week period. 

You can see mold beginning to grow.

Here they are right after I opened them up...

and a close-up.

Now I knew that after I laundered them they would loose a lot of the richness because I'm dealing with cotton.  

Silk and wool would have maintained the look you saw when I opened them because they are protein fibers.

But I'm still very pleased with the more subtle outcome...

especially close-up.