just wondering if solid ice cubes or cracked into pieces would add to the design possibilitys. even various sized/shaped ice cubes... a bit like blocks of wax put into candle molds then pour the melted wax over those. solid cubes would melt slower than the snow or wet/frozen fabric. just a thot off my totally melted down brain matter. j.
"Kathyl" wrote ... I don't have much in the way of instructions. I mix up a gallon of soda ash solution (1 C soda ash/1 gallon water) which will keep for quite some time. I use Procion dyes and use 1 tablespoon/ 1 cup water. I have these in squirt bottles. You can save water bottles with the pop tops and use those. To snow dye, I soaked my white muslin in the soda ash until totally wet, then gently squeezed out the excess...the fabric is still very damp. I put this in the bottom of a plastic pan (dish pan, kitty littler pan..whatever). I scrunched the fabric when I laid it out. Then I filled the pan with clean snow, packed fairly tight. Then squirt the dyes on top of the snow any way you want. I then let the snow almost completely melt. I think varying the amount of melting time might change the look of the finished fabric. For my second batch, I froze the treated fabric before I put the snow on, hoping to get a crisper design. It didn't make any difference that I could see. I hope you try it and post your results. I may start dumping my dye bath out on the front yard snow, just to confuse the neighbors. :-)