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Oct. 31st, 2010 04:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeTie-Dye Experiments
1/4 cup Urea, 1 tsp dye - Rainbow, Pink and Green, Yellow and Green
1/2 cup Urea, 1/2 tsp dye - Purple Blue and Pink, Yellow and Pink, Yellow and Purple
1/4 cup Urea, 2 tsp dye - Purple and Green, Blue and Red, Blue Purple Red and Green.
Notes:
Make sure your shirts or whatever you're dyeing are only damp to the touch, not dripping with soda wash. If they're dripping, the dye will drip too (duh) and you'll make a hideous mess all over everything.
Steamer bags to set, seven minutes is what I tried this time. It seems to work, but we'll see. It might be two times seven minutes next time.
If the soda wash is still wet and runny, it makes the shirts a lot more coated with dye. There's much much less white, the dye patches are much less defined. Not entirely a bad thing, it depends on what kind of a look you want to go for.
Oof. So, I finished my novel for Novel BigBang. I start another one tomorrow what with Nano, and I'm so not ready for that. I'm going to be prepping as I write. On the plus side I'm not aiming to get the whole giant shebang done this month? Just the first section of roughly 50,000 words. So there's that. I also managed to get some of the shirts done and some of the craft room tidied. And the boy got me some Halloween eggs. Yay!
I'd have more to say here but I'm still recovering from getting through most of the deadlines. Languages resume tomorrow, and I think I'll be glad to get back to routines. Hell, I'm glad to have two days in a row off. And no phonecalls from family. I think. Thank god.
1/4 cup Urea, 1 tsp dye - Rainbow, Pink and Green, Yellow and Green
1/2 cup Urea, 1/2 tsp dye - Purple Blue and Pink, Yellow and Pink, Yellow and Purple
1/4 cup Urea, 2 tsp dye - Purple and Green, Blue and Red, Blue Purple Red and Green.
Notes:
Make sure your shirts or whatever you're dyeing are only damp to the touch, not dripping with soda wash. If they're dripping, the dye will drip too (duh) and you'll make a hideous mess all over everything.
Steamer bags to set, seven minutes is what I tried this time. It seems to work, but we'll see. It might be two times seven minutes next time.
If the soda wash is still wet and runny, it makes the shirts a lot more coated with dye. There's much much less white, the dye patches are much less defined. Not entirely a bad thing, it depends on what kind of a look you want to go for.
Oof. So, I finished my novel for Novel BigBang. I start another one tomorrow what with Nano, and I'm so not ready for that. I'm going to be prepping as I write. On the plus side I'm not aiming to get the whole giant shebang done this month? Just the first section of roughly 50,000 words. So there's that. I also managed to get some of the shirts done and some of the craft room tidied. And the boy got me some Halloween eggs. Yay!
I'd have more to say here but I'm still recovering from getting through most of the deadlines. Languages resume tomorrow, and I think I'll be glad to get back to routines. Hell, I'm glad to have two days in a row off. And no phonecalls from family. I think. Thank god.