Friday, 17 July 2015

Tea dying fabric...

I have quite a bit of fabric that I want to use for my cross stitch designs and embroidery designs. I have seen on many blogs about dying the fabric with walnut dye, I would love to do this but I don't have any black walnuts, so I decided that teabags will have to do.
 
 
Fabrics to be dyed

This linen is a goldy yellow colour




fabric in bowl

teabags in bowl of boiling water to infuse

fabric out to dry

dyed fabric
 The tea dye isn't too strong in colour, you can make it stronger but adding more teabags.
 
this is the goldy yellow colour fabric, the tea dye has toned down the yellowness of it.


I added a couple of cinnamon and mango herbal teabags to the mix for scent.

I will iron the fabric that needs ironing and cut the larger pieces into fat quarters, a more manageable size. I don't want to cut them any smaller as I don't know the size if the project I will use them for yet.

bye for now

Bright Blessings from the cabin xxx


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