What are your favorite colors? Are they pink, green, blue, purple, etc? This is a lesson to teach you an amazing natural dyes project with your favorite colors that we know you will love! This project is great for anyone including children! Experimenting with natural dyes on a gloomy day is a perfect way to add some color to your day! This is such a fun, environmentally friendly project that anyone can participate in! This project takes patience, but is also very affordable!

There are a number of plants and veggies that make natural dyes. 
*It is important when working with natural dyes that experimentation is the key! So let your designer side come out!

What you need: 
Vinegar
Water
Fabric
Fruit 
Veggies
Salt
2 Large Pots
Strainer

3. You need to create a fixative, which will help your fabric hold the dye. 

• When working with fruit or berries, use a salt fixative. Put 1/2 cup of salt in 8 cups of water, put the fabric in the pot and simmer for one hour. 
• When working with veggies, use a vinegar fixature. Mix one part vinegar and four parts water. For instance, 2 cups of vinegar for 8 cups of water. Add your fabric and let simmer for one hour. 

4. After one hour rinse the fabric in cold water. The fabric is now ready to dye!

5. Drain the fruit/veggies in the drainer saving the liquid dye. 
6. Place the fabric in the prepared dye and let it sit for a while. Make sure your dye is still simmering or warm. The longer you let it sit, the deeper the shade will be. 

Wildflower Enterprises loves CONNECTING WOMEN around the world. We will be hosting a series of panels introducing women we have connected with over the last year! This panel on Nov. 1st will specifically discuss global women's entrepreneurship, slow and fair fashion, race and trade, fair trade, and environmental friendly designs.
Sounds like a lot? Well, join us, connect with our speakers, and learn what your role can be!

Speakers for Nov. 1st Include:

• Sharmaine Knowles, Designer and Founder of HugaNug Authentic Bahamian
• Tekia Thompson, founder of Black&Fair, Amplify Live, and works at Ten Thousand Villages
• Katie Schmidt, founder and designer of Passion Lilie fair trade designs
• Kait M, Co-founder of Wildflower Enterprises
• Moderator, Kacie G. Hopkins of Wildflower Enterprises

and MORE
Suggested $10 donation.

This spring we held an open event and welcomed friends and followers from around the world to gather in creative community with us. We welcomed over 40 people on this call. New friends were made, new stories and inspirations were lifted. See the pictures below highlighting the event. We hope to continue connecting people to one another through these spaces.