One of the other exhibitors gave me their flowers at the end of the show. Here are the orange Calendulas.
I had taken just the petals off and stored them in a ziploc baggie until we got home. Then I put them into the freezer for several days.
I put the petals into hot water - 135 degrees - and put in the prepared fabric.
After a few minutes I began to think nothing was going to happen. (Sometimes I'm a little impatient).
I took the flowers and fabric out of the liquid and spread out the fabric and started rubbing the petals into the fabric. I smashed and ground and pushed them around equally.
Then I rolled the smashed petals up into the fabric and shoved the whole mess into a glass jar and left it overnight.
The color was looking pretty terrific.
When I took it out and rinsed it off, a little of the color went away, but the nice butter yellow stayed nicely. There are little touches of orange, I don't know if you can see in this photo, but it's really nice.
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