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Originally Posted by Pam_and_Abigail  Here's a question I don't think has been covered in this thread (nothing came up when I searched)
How do you make a playsilk that looks like blue sky with fluffy clouds?
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Thanks for the idea! I just made a play silk like this and it was SO EASY! I dyed the silk in a pan of blue dye, just like normally. But I used a wide skillet, filled it up only 2 or 3 inches and used a few tiny metal cups and measuring cups, a whisk, anything I could find that was about the size of a lemon and would stick out of the top of the water about an inch. Then I carefully laid the silk on top and the white cloud parts were kept out of the water, while the rest got dye blue. I stirred and jiggled the parts that were going to be blue so that there were any weird wrinkle marks dyed into the silk. A few times throughout the simmering, I also spread out any fold or wrinkled on the sides of my clouds while it was soaking in the hot water. It turned out great! I will post pictures. I also took a picture of how I laid in the skillet.
The first one I made was great and I ruined it, because I decided that I wanted to paint a blue outline around each cloud, then had a huge ut oh, and the blue was just to dark and didn't look as realistic as before. With my first try, I folded the the silk in 1/2 then I laid it in the skillet. The second time, I folded in it 1/2 and then in 1/2 again, there were way more clouds, but there are missing clouds all along the center fold. And the center fold had a bit of a weird tie dye look where dye wasn't able to get to the area as much. So I just dipped that area is blue again for a few second and it was fixed. The 2nd time around, I will either just fold it once and use more measuring cups on my skillet for more clouds, OR fold it in 1/2 and in 1/2 again, but just make sure to jiggle plenty of dye in the folder area, and make sure I've placed clouds close to the fold so I don't get empty sky.
THEN my perfect second cloud silk was finished, I laid it to dry and noticed that I laid it on a few smudges of green dye! I know that bleach rots silk fibers... But I took an old tooth brush and some Comet cleanser and scrubbed the little dots and they are completely gone!! Then I rinsed the comet out. yay!
I also did 2 rainbow silks. (I suggest doing this first before your kitchen turns to mayhem) I put red on my front burner and orange on my back, I pushed the pans close together then put the end in red, and the section net to it in orange. Then I did it with yellow and green, blue and purple I did 2 silks at a time. Might as well.
