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.
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| Fabrics to be dyed |
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| This linen is a goldy yellow colour |
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| fabric in bowl |
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| teabags in bowl of boiling water to infuse |
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| fabric out to dry |
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| dyed fabric |
The tea dye isn't too strong in colour, you can make it stronger but adding more teabags.
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| 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 |
