I bought some Dylon hand dye this morning from Wilkonsons. I almost got carried away and bought four different sachets but remembered my black dye disaster from the last Module so erred on the side of caution and just got ‘Tulip Red’ and ‘Tropical Green’ to see how I get on.
Image 1 – Dylon Dye:
I looked on the Dylon website for more information and discovered in the FAQs that you can microwave dye using Dylon! Eh? Do what? MICROWAVE?! This excited me because it somehow sounds quicker… A few more google searches and I found instructions on how to do this! Amazing! Instructions and due credit here: http://www.jennierayment.com/?q=node/5
I experimented and got some amazing results. Although my fabrics are more crazy cerise pink than tulip red I like that am going to stick with them.
There aren’t any fabric shops in my hometown (ahhh!) so I sourced a 100% cotton bed set and chopped that up for fabric. I then proceeded to dye dye and more dye. With the weather being so hot my fabric dried really quickly.
Image 2 – Until I was more confident I made up little batches (although did find it sometimes difficult to get everything dissolved):
Image 3 – A square of fabric tied up:
Image 4 – I wore gloves to begin with but soon got fed up with them. So now I have red and green hands!
Image 5 – Another square of fabric, tied and with dye sploshed on
Image 6 – In the beginning I did some straight forward dyeing to see how it all worked. The red turned out more like cerise pink but it’s very striking:
Image 7 – I like how the stitching remained white (it must be synthetic thread):
Image 8 – Another tied one:
Image 9 – Tie dye!
Image 10 - A mixed colour tie dye:
Image 11 – And another
Image 12 – A very striking tie dye:
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