Saturday, February 5, 2011
Scrappy
I have a lot of T-shirt scraps. I had a lot of fabric from the grey shirt used for the legwarmers. So I decided to give this a try. It is odd but I rather like it. It is definitely not a Winter thing but come Spring I will test it out. I dyed with leftover hair dye (it didn't take much). The internet doesn't recommend it. My feeling is, if it will stain my clothing by accident, why can't it stain my clothing on purpose? I think the argument is that it won't stand up to a wash (really?) but this is more of a hand wash thing. I put a little of each color in a bowl with water and dunked the whole scarf in and pulled it out. Some of the scarf had darker spots of red or purple but mostly it was sort of a color wash (which I wanted). I dipped some of it in purple dye without water to get some dark spots. I let it dry and then I rinsed it with cold water until the water came out pretty much dye free. This scarf is so long that if I fold it in half it is still a good deal longer than I. I would estimate that it is at least 6' long so I had to wrap it a bunch of times, which I think looks cool.
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