Its Spring and time to celebrate with a new silk scarf.
I am working on a lovely crinkled silk crepe that feels great against your skin and holds color like crazy.
The first layer of color are two slightly different yellow greens on a leaf screen. I am working with MX dye thickened with sodium alginate, the silk was soda soaked prior to printing. Here it is dry after a second layer of blue loops.
The stripes dry to a cherry blossomish pink. The freeform lines are Bosenberry.
Dried and washed.
I love the pop of the orange serged edge. 
So much fun to see these colors on their own against the white and then how they play with others as they overlap. I find this endlessly intriguing and the original yellow green leaves just jump up through the intense blue violet stripes which were the last layer. I suspect that is because they got to the dye sites first and the techs at ProChemical and Dye agree. Then there is that beautiful grey that happened with the pink over lapped the azure blue. Top it off with a serged orange edge. Chase away grey days of winter Yummy.
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