Darn dye

[mala_14]

So I thought today would be a good day to dye my fabric and pattern up my shoulder pieces. The cotton velveteen started out as a sort of mossy sage green. I hoped it would dye to be at least teal, hopefully aqua. Not the case. AT ALL. It is now a beautiful emerald green... Unfortunately, my costume, as you may recall, is a deep aqua. Not good.

On the plus side, I can stop by the fabric store tomorrow and look for a suitable replacement. I really hope there is one. I still have another package of turquoise dye hanging around if I can find a very light coloured velveteen, preferable ivory. Other pluses are that if I find a replacement, this green colour is really nice and I can use it for something else. Also I've now learned how to dye fabric. And I dyed a couple samples of other things that I will be dyeing in the future and they turned out nicely. Worst case, I don't find fabric and use the green. Oh well.

I'm still going to do the patterning this evening. That should go alright.

Comments

[girliegirl32786.livejournal.com]

Dyeing is such a crap shoot. I'm never able to get an exact color (mainly because I'm lazy), but if I'm just experimenting, I usually like the results. Good luck finding a light velveteen. The emerald green sounds really lovely, even if it is completely wrong.

[mala-14.livejournal.com]

Dyeing is interesting, but definitely chancy stuff. Now that I've washed the fabric the emerald colour has changed into a lovely deep, slightly olive-y green, which actually perfectly matches some cotton print that I have. Maybe it was meant to be? Thanks!