Hey everyone!
Jennifer wanted to talk about what she's done to dye her clothes in her new rich and dynamic Type 3 colors, so I wanted to give her a way to do that...See the comment below that is forthcoming for info on that. I know Cathy is also super at dyeing things--I'm a complete novice. The last thing I dyed was a load of laundry all pink....unintentionally of course!! So tell me, tell me!
thanks Kristelle for making this entry. I found the Wilson's food color to be great for dying my wool. I had a bit of experience with yarn and 2 weeks ago I had the sudden urge, in the middle of cooking supper, to put my very greyish-tan Irish knit cardigan that i was wearing (weighs nearly a kilo= about 2 lbs) into a pot of near boiling water with some food coloring and to cook it to boiling (about 30 mins) add some vinegar and to cool. So I did it and it came out beautifully! I dyed it rust/copper. I figured i'd start doing some more clothes for the cottons and mixed texiles so i went out the following day and bought some Dylon dyes (like RIT) for the washing machine-after using a couple times i get mixed results. Sometimes it dyes well full cover and sometimes really blotchy. So i wanted to know if anyone else could share their experience with machine chemical dyes. I am also into learning to do natural dyes with items from nature but that will need to wait till spring-although i have heard that it can be ustable too. Thus, till now the food coloring works best. I tried to spray paint-got really excited to try after seeing Michelle do it on DYT ressource page. Worked okay on wool---sprayed an old Gucchi wool blazer jacket i had lying around (picked up at thrift shop for 5$)and it came out okay-did purple and some copper spray paint...but it seems a bit too mat for me. I tried to do my nylon goose- down ski coat...yikes! Total catastrophe! All blotchy and the paint got all over the dryer (i washed and dryed 78 hrs after). didn't cover well and rteally sticky!!. That was a waste of a can and not cheap. Hmmnnn....I may use the spray paint for wool or synthetics that are not too large. I didn't try to do second coat of paint because it wasn't working and I didn't want the expense nor mess. I think i'll stick to dyeing. Spray painting the jewlery too was a bit off--mat..too mat, not enough depth. After all this leisure dyeing and spraying activity i conclude that it is far better to just try to find the right 'color' clothing at the store (along with the other elements like texture, design, etc...) :p or to dye clothes only if you love the item and it's not in your chroma. Carol does state that too in her resources. I usually need to test always and learn for myself :p
ReplyDeleteIt's at times like this that i think i may have a secondary 4 .... ;)
ReplyDeleteWow, that is amazing Jennifer! Such courage! I applaud you. I'm intrigued now...hey, is that a new photo in your new Type 3-ness???
ReplyDeleteyes, you noticed!...a slight haircut and new color---had some highlights put in and hair cut in a slight angle from back to front (followed the advice of Nicole/Emily who sent a professional opinion (thanks for the suggestion on that too). Put on some colors and textures, etc...it's coming along (getting all my leopard prints out of closet now to wear....... lol :D
Deletep.s no gray in sight! (except the weather :p )
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