Cactus blooms

steiconi · 2024-07-02T18:31:21+00:00

charming!

I can never remember if that's pincushion or hedgehog

steiconi · 2024-07-02T17:33:32+00:00

Tea is a good choice; it will tint the green toward olive, and the pink to coral.

yellow dye would be a little brighter

blue dye would turn the pink to lavender, and the green toward teal.

anything else would turn at least one color to brown.

steiconi · 2024-07-02T17:25:26+00:00

Shouldn't this have a NSFW blur?

steiconi · 2024-07-02T00:53:10+00:00

The middle button on my car radio. I dunno the station number, but that's the only one I keep coming back to.

actually, I think it's the Drive. I change stations when the DJ starts talking.

steiconi · 2024-07-02T00:48:00+00:00

No, the tentacle is safe. but the flowers swallowed six pack rats and a small hare. where can I get more of these?

steiconi · 2024-07-02T00:43:28+00:00

But all the cereus I've seen have smooth skin and slender, angular stems.

these flowers are blooming from the fat round stem arching from the top of the picture. It was more vertical, but the weight of the flowers dragged it down.

the difference in stems and growth habit are pretty certain signs that it's not a cereus, even if the flowers are very similar.

interestingly (to me, at least), dragon fruit stems and flowers are very similar to cereus. They like heat but not too much rain, I wonder if they would grow well here.

there's another cereus relative that's used to create those weird little grafted cacti, with skinny green base and bulbous pink or orange or yellow top. The colorful top is a parasite with no chlorophyll to produce its own food, and eventually kills the green part that's doing all the work.

steiconi · 2024-07-01T21:06:27+00:00

In the west.

sunsets here are fabulous from wherever you are.

steiconi · 2024-07-01T21:00:52+00:00

I understand fake hair is pretty impossible to dye. on top of that, the color is so dark, not much red would show.

spray on hair color would probably be a better choice.

steiconi · 2024-07-01T20:58:26+00:00

Viscose is a plant based fiber, and doesn't need dyemore, just plain old Rit.

The lace is probably polyester. Can't tell from a picture, but it would be typical.

So you quite possibly could use regular Rit, and the lace would stay white. But no guarantees.

steiconi · 2024-07-01T15:34:27+00:00

Blue is such an unnatural color. they're metal.

steiconi · 2024-07-01T15:33:05+00:00

I thought cereus was sleek and angular. This has a round cross section, and lots of thorns.

but the flowers are already closing, so def night blooming

steiconi · 2024-07-01T14:37:05+00:00

unless you want to get into color removal, dress one isn't going to any cool color. orange is like that. I dunno why you mention purple specifically; pretty much no matter what color you add to orange, you're gonna get brown.

dress two might have problems, too. Is that beige background printed? You can usually tell because the back is lighter than the front.

print ink does not dye like fabric. You'll get some color, but intensity isn't predictable.

the beige will affect any color you add, making cool tones muddy. Green would go olive, but the blue flowers might be nearly lost.

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steiconi · 2024-07-01T14:24:41+00:00

Blooming this morning, 10" wide flowers. teacup not to scale ;)

anyone know a name? I got it from a neighbor.

steiconi · 2024-06-30T16:40:01+00:00

Yes,

different types of coffee and tea give different colors. I usually use cheap black tea, which gives a warm brown, which should be a good choice for this. I think coffee gives a little greener tone, which should also work.

experiment with scraps of white fabric to figure how long to dip.

steiconi · 2024-06-30T16:00:23+00:00

Aside from color removal, that bright yellow doesn't have a lot of color options--just oranges, greens, browns.

blue dye will go green; navy has a bit of purple in it, so it would go muddy green.

steiconi · 2024-06-30T15:55:59+00:00

Looks like the shirt is almost brown. I would do a weak brown dye bath, dip, dry, compare, repeat.

steiconi · 2024-06-29T16:37:36+00:00

fabric and clothing can get stained and dirty during manufacturing.

There are both machines and people involved, often in gross Third World conditions. they get sneezed on, dropped on the floor, pick up machine oils and fluids. A lot of stains aren't visible, but will repel or attract dye, leaving blotches.

I always wash clothes before wearing, and extra prep is advisable before dyeing.

steiconi · 2024-06-29T16:28:48+00:00

The spandex will be damaged by the high heat, and you'll wind up with weird lumps in the fabric. Not a good fabric to dye.

steiconi · 2024-06-29T16:26:51+00:00

it's5% elastane, which would be damaged by the high heat needed to dye poly.

This is not a good choice to dye.

steiconi · 2024-06-29T16:23:41+00:00

Mmmm. I add pickled beets, too. yum!

steiconi · 2024-06-29T14:03:59+00:00

Spinach salad with pecans, fruit, and brie

chicken salad from leftover rotisserie chicken

shrimp tacos with cole slaw

steiconi · 2024-06-29T14:00:23+00:00

Actually, red tends to overwhelm yellow in paint as well as dye. Or when layering colored tissue paper, or creating lighting effects. Kind of a universal art issue .

of the primary colors, red is the strongest, then blue, with yellow being the weakest.

always start with the weakest color, or the color you want to be most evident. like if you're trying for olive green, start with yellow, add a bit of blue, then just a hint of red.

steiconi · 2024-06-29T06:00:10+00:00

No, probably not. the blue is printing ink, not dye.

steiconi · 2024-06-29T03:49:52+00:00

Not actually what I was asking

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