So lately I've been thinking about dying fabric. Aside from some tie dying in Girl Scouts when I was a young scout, I have absolutely no experience.
I decided to dip my toe (or fabric) into dying by starting with tea dying. Six cheap tea bags, my biggest pot, and a yard of fabric I intend to use as the lining of a bag and I was on my way.
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The results were not as dramatic as I hoped, but still more than acceptable for the project. My cutesy, "too red", "too white" fabric is now a bit muted, a bit more mellow, a bit darker.
I think I'm ready to move on to colored dye. Bring on the mess!
4 comments:
You should try coffee and see what happens. You'd probably get one of those dark "country" style prints.
omg. i don't think i realized who you were :) you ARE crafty!!
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Today is my first venture with tea dyeing too. I'm also working with red. And after reading this, I think I'll dump the rest of my morning coffee into my dye vat as well.....:)
I'm so hesitant to try new things someimtes, especially if it looks messy and i think that it may fail, and then i've gone through all that mess for nothing, hehe. I've dyed paper with tea once and that worked out pretty well! :)
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