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My lovely old aunt gave me a bag full of white broderie anglaise fabric to craft with. Unfortunately most of it had pastel multicolour embroidery which can just look a little too tacky and cheap.
I went on to research natural dyes and processes, including some history and weird common dye ingredients. To dye with berries, first soak you cloth in salted water for an hour, then add to pre-prepared boiled dye mix of 1/2 water, 1/2 berries and cook/soak for an hour depending on desired colour. The same for plant dyes, except prepare with vinegar instead of salt.
After going through turmeric dying, and finding that most natural dyes were advised to be washed separately in cold water, (which is a pain in the butt for my intended recipient of the dyed complete gift, being a busy mum of 4) I decided to look at commercial dyes..
After reading the history of Rit dyes and looking through more brands, then remembering I swore I saw something about dying with kool-aid on Pinterest.. I decided on trying Rit next time I can get down to the craft shop.
I then drew up a template on this awesome colour-palette site: http://www.colourlovers.com and applied my projected colours to it.Overall I think I learned some quirky things and it was useful :)
And now for a short interval of SPAM!Apr 06, 2012 04:05 by forestchic
