Teal Blue Pants
A while back, I purchased a pair of pants. They were super cheap -- cotton and comfortable. The only problem was the color : Yellow. Not my favorite. But I also knew I could dye them to something more my liking.
This is the original color of those pants. Yellow.
I chose Teal Blue, because it came out so nice on the wool yarn a few days ago. Looked kind of like faded blue jeans. But I should have known, the dye would react differently on cotton -- because that's what it was design for. It's much more intense on cotton with the soda ash fixer.
I was a little afraid I'd wind up with "green jeans" if I added blue dye to a yellow base. You might catch a whiff of green in the final product, but it's overall very blue -- and intense.
The thread is obviously synthetic because that did not pick up the teal blue dye.
Success! I think next time, I'll just buy the trousers in a more suitable color to start with!
1 comment:
Nice job! Guessing there wasn't enough yellow in that cotton to faze your blue dye - lol. I dyed a couple of cotton shirts of my husband's long ago and discovered the same thing you did about the thread used in their construction. Fortunately, it wasn't too distracting.
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