Re: Hubby Hand-Dyed
- From: "Jane Kay" <kayfamily1@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 14:33:39 -0400
Now that the weather is warming up, try working outside on a picnic table or
card table covered with a cheap plastic tablecloth. Use water from the hose
to rinse the fabric. Believe me, this saves a lot on cleanup. Wear your
oldest clothes. Use clean 2 liter pop bottles with the tops cut off for
containers- save some of the tops for funnels. Once your fabric is rinsed
good & dry you can overdye it with more colors. For mottled, jam the fabric
tightly scrunched into jars of dye ( use smaller pop bottles). There are
some good books out with different techniques, Quilters Newsletter (I think)
had an article several years ago about dyeing 1/4 yards in babyfood jars and
setting the color somehow in the microwave.
This is a very addictive pastime, soon you will be wanting to buy whole
bolts of PFD fabric. Remember you can use light color fabric you already own
if you don't mind taking a chance with it. WoW fabric is fun, so are white
cotton sweatshirts & T-Shirts & even canvas sneakers.
Been there, went crazy & dyed all kinds of things. Synthetics don't work,
except rayon. You need different dye for wool & silk (animal fibers)
Jane in NE Ohio
"Mika" <tajmahal56@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:z391i.134$dn2.131@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Well we did it. We hand-dyed our first batch of fabric. What fun. It was a
total disaster and we can't wait to do it again. One thing one should
definitely NOT do is dye fabric near things that you don't want to get wet
or get dye on. lol. The very first batch, I got the soda ash mixed up with
the urea so that started off the whole disaster thing. Then rather than
leave the fabric all scrunched up, I had to go pick it up so that the dye
all drained downward and we didn't get the mottled look the way we wanted.
That was the fuchsia. We did turquoise next and I just don't know what we
did wrong with it but we still didn't get the mottling that I wanted. So
we went on to yellow. DH took the fabric and twisted it to see how that
would work. Well, it worked but not with a mottled effect, with a streak
effect. The colors turned out just beautifully bright and vibrant and I
love them. The yellow is a bit brighter, almost neon, than what I like but
I'll use it. All in all, it was fun and a great experience. We are going
to enjoy this. DH is going to clean out the laundry room and set us up a
table in there to use. We have a utility sink in there so it will work
much better than on my cutting table.
Now I have some questions for you HD gurus. What does the salt do? Does it
have to be plain or is iodized ok? We did the low water immersion for
these and didn't use salt. As far as the colors I'm please with the
outcome. Just not with the mottling but I'm sure that will come with
experience. How long do you leave the dye on before you add the soda ash?
Do you just pour it on then drain it or let it set for awhile? I know it
needs to soak in the soda ash for about an hour.
Anyway, we really enjoyed it and will definitely do more. DH asked me last
night when we were going to dye more fabric. He got a kick out of it. I
love that man.
Hugs,
Mika
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