Unfortunately, I was not able to make nearly as much progress as I had hoped on my project by this point. I had a busier week in my other classes with a few papers coming up to work on, so I didn't have a good chunk of time to commit to my project.

On top of that, we had to put down my cat Dumpling yesterday. We've had her since I was 8 and she was just a kitten, so I knew her time was coming soon but it's still hard. I actually featured her in my LOLcat earlier in the semester. I thought I'd repost it in her honor. The picture really captures her feline spirit... she was the queen of the house no matter how hard you tried to make it otherwise.




Going back to my project... I ended up buying Indigo dye, which is different from what the tutorial I was planning on going off of uses. I went to Utrect on Farwell, and they had a very limited supply of dyes. Indigo seems a little more maintenance that what they used, but a little more versatile. The vat of dye can be kept for multiple uses along as it is sealed tightly to keep oxygen out. Also, Indigo is used to dye blue jeans. I'm hoping to be able to try that out in addition to dip dyeing t-shirts.

I'm also trying to sort out the logistics of the dyeing before I actually get started. I don't want to risk spilling on the floor which could stain and cost me my security deposit. I'm hoping the weather will be nice enough at some point this weekend to be able to do the dyeing on my back porch.