Old 01-16-2020, 06:28 PM
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Iceblossom
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I am caught up for now (new clue tomorrow) on the Bonnie Hunter Frolic project. Expecting some work for tomorrow.

It snowed here in Seattle, we've had snow on the ground since Sunday. That's rare, here we usually only get a day or two. Stayed in today and stabilized some more of the bag of hand dyes I got at the thrift store. That was one prewash full batch on hot in the washing machine. Take small batch, rinse. Boil in water, vinegar and salt for 20 minutes. Rinse until clean. Boil in microwave for 20 minutes. Rinse. Once all pieces (6 batches) were boiled, soak in hot water in washer with setting agent. Then one more wash with soap and the color catcher came out clean! It's an amazing amount of effort, time and water/power I'm going to just in order to save a cheap bag of fabric!

Hubby wanted to spend some time so I'll have to iron them tomorrow after their completely dried out. Prefer to get them a little moist but hubby important too.
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