If you’re making The Folk Garden Quilt and doing the natural dye work, you will need this recipe PDF along with The Folk Garden Quilt pattern, and the Dye Flower Variety Bundle.

This PDF contains natural dye recipes for dyer’s coreopsis, sulfur cosmos, marigolds and calendula. The recipes are exclusively intended for cellulose fabrics such as cotton, linen and hemp. The process of dyeing protein fibers is different so the recipes are not interchangeable. This is not a beginners guide to natural dyeing. The recipes are intended for those with prior natural dye experience who have an understanding of the most basic natural dye processes.

PDF contents:

A list of necessary tools and supplies. How to create ombré gradients on fabric yardage with each dye bath, and then how to modify the gradients with either iron or indigo to expand your palette. How to set up an iron bath to “sadden” the gradient shades at specific WOF percentages. How to create specific shades via over-dyeing with indigo. Setting up an indigo vat is not covered but I include links to resources for that. Also included is information explaining how to stabilize the flower colors after dyeing for optimal colorfastness results.

The PDF document is 14 pages of text and photographs.

*Please note that the calendula I offer in this year’s Dye Flower Variety Bundle is a different variety than the one I grew in years prior so it looks a little different than the one shown in the photos of this PDF. The new variety yields a similar yet greener color than the previous variety I offered.