Dyeing to get to quilt
I’ve been drawing, I’ve been gathering patches, I’ve been clearing a table, I’ve moved the sewing machine, I’m set, hep and ready to go on my newest quilt. So what am I really doing? I’m dyeing a jacket.
My daughter has a wonderful black jacket with red embroidery she’s worn for 2 years straight. So now the black is more a charcoal grey and not so good looking. I thought that re-dying the entire jacket in black would be a bad idea since the embroidery would be lost. But re-dyeing it red would deepen the grey to , well something closer to black while revitalizing the embroidery.
I’m boiling the jacket on the stove. My kitchen looks like something out of a haunted house, red liquid and unidetifyable black stuff in the pot, red drips everywhere….
What we don’t do for our kiddies.
On a different note, I’ve been researching quilting on the web looking for ideas for the stash and found a set of really interesting articles and pictures on Dutch patchwork. There was a brief explosion of Dutch women making “Celebration” or Festival skirts out of old fabrics saved from before the war. There were instructions on how to make these and a registry for them. I’m attaching thel inks since they tell the story better than I ever could. Neat stuff.
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October 24th, 2006 at 8:32 pm
So, how did the dye job turn out? Did your daughter like the results? And for the third question, is there any concern about the dye rubbing off on other clothing either from normal wear, or from washing?
Curious.
October 24th, 2006 at 11:35 pm
HI welcome in
The dye job turned out well, and my daughter liked the results. Dyeing a faded black jacket red gave the jacket a red cast in certain lights. I did have to rinse the thing about 6 tmes to remove all the excess dye, but it was worth it.
I have a picture of the dyeing process in the post called snow in summer quilt.
Nothing has rubbed off on her clothing but I don’t know if any will come off in the wash- I’m intending to wash this withthe red shirts the first time.
November 30th, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Markus…
It was quite useful reading, found some interesting details about this topic. Thanks….