[Sca-cooks] beet juice dye (last)

[Jennifer Thompson]

>> Lann...
>> I must have done so accidentally, since I have been told that
>> it won't work.

> From: "ruadh"
>
> the vinegar ! it's cheap photo fixer too.  Ru
>

Argh, none of the above. I'm in my kitchen last night way past my bedtime
and the hubby comes in and asks what I'm doing. I tell him I'm trying to
replicate the beet juice dyeing, and he asks if I'm at the point yet where I
get fed up, cuss a blue streak, dump the leftover KoolAid packet on it and
stomp off to bed, because that's where he's headed. To which my response was
"I never did any... such..... thing....... oh dear."

Lesson one - beet juice needs a mordant, I believe. I *did* get a pale rose,
but after the lovely color in the bowl, it's pretty disappointing. Probably
because of the vinegar.
Lesson two - I *really* need to keep a notebook.
Lesson three - Kool Aid (no, I don't know which flavor, see previous note)
turns slightly pale beet dyed wool into *exactly* the color that one would
expect beet juice to do. Especially if the wool in question has been soaking
in beet juice.

Anyone have any ideas on what to do with two cans worth of beets? San juice?
The baby and I ate them all last time, so we are beeted out and the hubby
won't touch them.

And what's the rock?

Lann the inept