Getting Started with Natural Dyes: Avocado Dye
sidelakestitch.com
I became interested in natural dye a few months ago after seeing a quilt made with all naturally dyed fabrics. The quilt and its colors were so beautiful, but so difficult to describe. I spend many hours staring at fabric, and yet, here was a color I had never seen before. Naturally, I began googling about natural dyes

I make avocado dyes and pigments all the time. In fact, dying and pigments are the main reasons I eat so many vibrant fruits and vegetables. I get a lot of fibre.

I keep a jar of water, avocado skins and pits on my kitchen counter that I add too whenever I have one. I keep ot slightly alkaline with baking soda, which seems to deter bacteria growth.

Different kinds of fabrics take to the dye in different ways, with cotton being my favorite so far. Plant based fibres seem to do better with a urea treatment before dyeing, and you can get some very deep, dark purple/grays with iron mordant (I keep steel wool soaking in salt water.)