I chose blue to counterpoint XyloVan’s shiny aluminum keyboards – I had in mind a Moroccan blue – sort of ashy, like it had been fading for a while …
so it’s four boxes of Royal Blue to one box of Denim, and then it’s a matter of shoving all that fabric into that one tiny tub.
Once saturated, it fit in just fine.
Here’s the left-front panel. Why do I fear that – when I get the lace up over the vehicle’s “eyes” – I will have become some sort of van seamstress, forever building art cars and my latest model will be a laughingstock because it resembles a massive burkha. (shudder)
I laid out the panels on the lawn to dry – then when they were partway there, I pulled them up to the deck railing.
Here’s what that looked like just beforehand.
And here’s what you get when you dye without gloves on.