{"id":950,"date":"2017-12-18T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/?p=950"},"modified":"2017-12-17T20:25:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T04:25:11","slug":"dyeing-with-spinach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/18\/dyeing-with-spinach\/","title":{"rendered":"Dyeing with spinach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using <a href=\"https:\/\/timbercreekfarmer.com\/using-spinach-dye-for-natural-wool-color\/\">this article<\/a> for reference, sibling C and I dyed some of her cotton-and-nylon socks with liquid leftover from cooking spinach. Spinach produces yellows to greens, but doesn&#8217;t stick very well (isn&#8217;t &#8220;fast&#8221;). We added some iron (from an iron supplement) to make the color more green, and to hopefully make it darker and more fade-resistant.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_951\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-951\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-951 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_2271-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_2271-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_2271-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_2271-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_2271.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The finished socks in rinse water. Spoon for scale.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_952\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-952\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-952 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_2272-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_2272-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_2272-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_2272-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_2272.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We got a nice pale green-gray. It is almost discernible from regular dirt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The socks looked like something at first, but, like many naturally-dyed articles, quickly faded. Very sad \ud83d\ude41 Sibling C is amassing a very pastel army of naturally-dyed socks. The one upside is that they coordinate very well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using this article for reference, sibling C and I dyed some of her cotton-and-nylon socks with liquid leftover from cooking spinach. Spinach produces yellows to greens, but doesn&#8217;t stick very well (isn&#8217;t &#8220;fast&#8221;). We added some iron (from an iron supplement) to make the color more green, and to hopefully make it darker and more &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/18\/dyeing-with-spinach\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dyeing with spinach&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}