A month ago, I showed you the results I achieved dyeing a little knitted sample of handspun Cotswold with the leftover water after cooking globe artichokes. I was really pleased with the grey it gave. I realised however, that I had no clue whether it would fade away to nothing within a few days or weeks. Well, since then, it's been sitting on a table in the window with half of it covered up to keep part of it in the dark.
After a month of, not exactly sunshine, but light it doesn't seem to have changed at all. The top half of this sample was kept in the dark and, although it looks a little different on this photo, the bottom half in real life hasn't altered at all from the top half.
I'm going to put it back in the window for another month because, as I hinted, we haven't had a great deal of strong sunshine in the last month. We now seem to have hit a really hot spell with wall-to-wall sunshine, so I think the true test will be still to come.
After a month of, not exactly sunshine, but light it doesn't seem to have changed at all. The top half of this sample was kept in the dark and, although it looks a little different on this photo, the bottom half in real life hasn't altered at all from the top half.
I'm going to put it back in the window for another month because, as I hinted, we haven't had a great deal of strong sunshine in the last month. We now seem to have hit a really hot spell with wall-to-wall sunshine, so I think the true test will be still to come.
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