I've been playing with dye lately and it's pretty cool. I've dyed curtains (first I dyed them gray and then decided I wanted green), and a shirt. I had a bunch of towels that were dull and/or bleached and they were just not so pretty so I figured I'd give them a shot with the dye too.
I got this dye at a little outlet store down the street for 50 cents. I stocked up with a few colors so I'd have them handy when I felt the whim to get funky.
I should have taken pictures of the process but I didn't (I'll do better!). I'll tell you though, it's pretty easy:
1. Boil some water (the amount of water depends on the size of the job),
2. put it in some sort of bucket (you can see my dye bucket below),
3. mix in the dye (I used 4 boxes of cocoa brown) and,
4. stir, stir, stir,stir.
5. Then you rinse and throw in the washer.
They say you can also dye things in your washing machine, but I don't trust that. Seems like a disaster waiting to happen.
Here's my dye bucket:
I was hoping for a little deeper brown color, but all in all, I think they turned out okay.
As you can see below, you can still see the bleach spot on my dark brown towel. Oh well. I'll just put that one at the bottom of the stack ;-)
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