Hi my name is Karen and I’m currently a stay at home homemaker who’s into fabric dyeing, tie dye, quilting, reading, other crafts etc, etc. I was a grocery cashier for seventeen years before going back to college taking a three year computer science technology program.
I live in Whitby, Ontario, Canada in your typical four bedroom two story box that is redeemed by being situated on a ravine lot. I enjoy gardening but my back doesn’t so I don’t do as much as I should but I enjoy looking out over the creek at the birdies and what not.
10 responses so far ↓
beth // July 23, 2008 at 5:50 am |
Ah ha! I found you! The commenting Canadian! Aloha! It’s nice that I’ve found your own little spot on the net!
bunks // July 23, 2008 at 2:30 pm |
Interesting I didn’t realise one could reply to a bio. Glad you found me scroll down to see some tie dye and what not if you’re interested
Karen
arlee // July 31, 2008 at 3:20 pm |
Another Canadian—YAY!!!!
greg // January 6, 2009 at 7:16 pm |
hiya. do you make shirts for sale? I love your vee designs and would like to have one. I had one back in the day that your skill could reproduce. PLMK.
thanks
Michele at Sweet Leaf // March 6, 2009 at 12:46 am |
Dear Karen–
Thank you for the tip about Arm n Hammer Washing Soda not quite being what it’s cracked up to be. I’ll stop at a pool place tomorrow and try to get the pH Up (or something similar). We’ve still got snow, though it’s melting fast here. I’m hoping to get 1 more snow dyeing session in this season!
tracyb // March 24, 2009 at 3:24 am |
Thanks for your VERY nice comment on the Artisan Challenge. My fingers are crossed
Sally UK // November 9, 2009 at 9:08 am |
Hi Karen
just found your blog and i is fabulous! withou sounding stupid what is the ’snow’ you put on the dye? I have not heard of this before, is it a Canadian product or universal?
Many thanks in advance
Sally
Sally UK // November 9, 2009 at 9:09 am |
beautiful place where you live too :O)
Sally UK // November 9, 2009 at 9:11 am |
some friends of mine live in Trenton in Ontario, though we lost ouch over the years. Their son would bring us lots of pictures back from Ontario and once he said a tornado came through but that was some years ago,
bunks // November 9, 2009 at 1:14 pm |
Hi Sally thanks Ontario is a beautiful spot. Southern Ontario where I live reminds me very much of England when I drove up through the middle part from Oxford to Scotland.
My daughter lived in Trenton for about a year, small world isn’t it?
The snow is just regular snow that falls on the ground in the winter from the sky. In snow-dyeing you put the snow on top of the material and then squirt the dye on top of the snow. The snow then acts as a type of resist blocking the dye from reaching the material at first but once it melts it allows the dye to reach the fabric.
The neat thing about snow dyeing is that the snow melts at different rates depending on how grandular it is and on how much dye you squirt in one area so it creates really neat patterns.
If you haven’t already seen it click on the snow-dyeing tutorial at the side of my daily blog page and it’ll give you an idea of what I’m talking about. People who don’t have any snow fall in their country sometimes use ice or a snow-cone machine to make snow.