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I have to confess why I had I so little patience for yesterday's craft activity, the night previous I stayed up way too late tub dying the above pieces. It's not that it takes so long but the only good time for mixing dyes is when all the kids are sleeping and I wanted to be sure to have it all cleaned up before they woke up.
I want to document them here to remember what I mixed and see how different fabrics in the same dye lot each take to it differently. I'm happy with the neutral color but admit all together they look drab - kind of like the color of Mao's suit. But there is a enough variation to the style lines to keep them alive.
Here's what I mixed, enough for 1 1/2 lbs of fabric: 2 TBS dharma's procion pewter, 1 TBS better black and 1/2 TBS Wedgwood blue.
The first piece is an airplane embroidered barefoot dreams baby top that had suffered from too much spit up. It's got a whole new look now and I especially love the way the original stitching pops out. George wore it today with some chocolate brown footed knit pants for a cool baby color combo for fall. I would have taken a picture but he spit up on it before I got around to it.
The second is my wear your baby poncho. I finally got the guts to dye and I'm happy I did.
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I can't believe it is getting cool enough to actually wear this again! It is made from a super cozy organic cotton berber fleece so that alone will get me throwing it on at will. Here I am just heading out to retrieve the morning paper. And here is a close up of the neck. I think I'd like to make another one with just one neck hole opening because I actually do sometimes go out without that cute baby attached to me.
The last two pieces were just thrown in last minute because I couldn't bare to let any dye go to waste. One of them was my favorite white T that got pitted out from frequent summer wear and the other was a stained top of the girls.
This was a quick satisfying project! I just don't recommend it when the kids are up.
How did you dye the poncho so evenly without blotches? What has your experience been with dying colored clothes? Is grey dark enough that it doesn't show?
ReplyDeletei love that poncho!! are you using the moby wrap under the poncho?
ReplyDeleteMarie- I dyed it all in an empty super pail. You just have to stir it a bit every 15 minutes for 1 hour. The baby shirt was actually a light blue but I think gray would be fine. Kind of like mixing paints I guess - so if you had gray it would be more muted than the dye color
ReplyDeleteBlrooke - I have George in a didymos wrap because I don't think you are suppose to use the moby on your back. But I used the moby all the time when he was a baby. Do you want a poncho? I've been thinking of starting an etsy shop and I could sell them there. I just wasn't sure there'd be demand as I sometimes wear and do things out of the ordinary.