my colorful accomplishments of late

[idiosyncreant]

My poem "Avoiding the Issue" is up in short-poetry 'zine "inkscrawl"!

Still perusing this new issue, but so far I also really like

The Mermaid's Winter Song by Brittany Warman
and
Rapunzel's Loft by Kevin Heaton

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I also played with KoolAid on Sunday. Did some stovetop and then some sun-style, in bags outside. I got all excited and did some up and then

Comments

[naamah_darling]

Oh, golly, the peachy pink on top is so beautiful. It's ALL beautiful, but damn, that's a pretty color.

Haaaaay, lady, I has a question. If, at some point, I asked you to dye some roving for me to use to make pony dreadlocks, would you be amenable to that? Paid, of course.

I'd have to figure out how to attach them, but that's my problem, and not yours.

Hmm. How stable is the kool-aid as a dye, if I were to get the wool wet and work at it for felting?

[idiosyncreant]

Of course I'd be amenable! Pony dreads would be *awesome*. Of course, I'm pretty new to dyeing, so I don't have quite the quality control of a real supplier, as far as color accuracy goes, but if you had a specific palette in mind I could fudge with it until I got a good color.

KoolAid is quite stable--it might fade like any color after a long time, but it's washable and everything.
You don't even have to presoak wool in vinegar to get it to take up the dye. That coloring is really strong.

The only limitation, really, is that only mammalian hair will take the color: so you can use it to dye your *own* hair, just not cotton or linen or probably any plastic wig hair.

[naamah_darling]

Sweeeeeet. I'll let you know when I'm ready to do that one, assuming I ever GET THE MONEY. 9_9 The colors wouldn't have to be accurate to anything in particular, I'd just work back from the color of the hair instead of forward from the body color!

[idiosyncreant]

I really don't mind experimenting for the fun of it, either, though!

If you fancy any of the colors I did this time around I can send you some just to play around with, and if you have any concepts you've been thinking about doing, it would be a great way for me to get inspired to do more.

Just let me know! This is a practically-free project for me, using wool I already have, and I'd just love to see what you could do with it.

[jade_sabre_301]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA drinking instead of coloring it hahahahahaha.

I really love those greens! and I enjoyed your poem although the line after "chrysanthemum" I have some quibbles with comma placement (I agree two commas are needed, just not sure that's where they go) but I loved the ending of it. And that mermaid poem is GORGEOUS. :D

[idiosyncreant]

Trust me. There was no good way to place those commas. This was pretty much the only thing that I had to keep revising in that poem. XD

I really like the green now that I'm working with it! It's kind of a gentle poison green. Just now thinking about those words actually made me think of the Silver Chair enchantress villain lady, actually...

[jade_sabre_301]

Oh, I do trust you, if only because I only devoted like three or four minutes to trying to figure it out and can't imagine how long you spent. :-b

SILVER CHAAAAAAAAAAIR the last Narnia book I read. I just remember it being underground.

[idiosyncreant]

The lady turns into a snake, and is kind of described as wearing a green that I thought was chilly but pretty. So. LIKE SLYTHERIN.

[naamah_darling]

Also, since I was all rude and stuff and distracted by the pretty and totally forgot to mention it, I really liked that poem. It rings very true. Very true indeed.

[idiosyncreant]

Oh, thank you! That's good to hear.

I'll admit, I double-loaded the post on the hope that if people didn't care to comment on one, they'd comment on the other... :P