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03-11-2013, 07:41 AM | #1 |
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Experienced fabric dyers - I need help!!!
I bought 11 yards of a batik fabric from Jo-Ann's yesterday. As I was getting it cut, the woman at the counter told me she had made some things from the same fabric and that the dye ran - a lot. She suggested I set the dye with vinegar and salt. I've only done that once - a long time ago - with tie dye and small items like handkerchiefs and t-shirts. I've got 11 yards of fabric on my hands this time.
Can anybody here walk me through this? I'm a little nervous, because, well I only just vaguely know what I'm doing. This fabric could potentially get a lot of washing and I don't want to turn all the rest of our clothes green! (Every year I make a Hawaiian shirt for DH for Father's Day with matching shirts or sun dresses for the kids. They usually end up wearing their new clothes a lot over the summer and we've been handing things down as well. I'm expecting a baby at the end of May, so I'm trying to get this done before the baby comes.) Should I try doing this in the bathtub? And how much vinegar and salt to, say a half-full tub? (I have a ton of fine-grain pickling salt. Would that work?) Or is it possible to set this dye in a front-loading washing machine?
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03-11-2013, 08:17 AM | #2 |
Rose Garden
Some Cal/Mag will probably fix that.
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Re: Experienced fabric dyers - I need help!!!
What are your plans with the fabric? Fiber content? Color?
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03-11-2013, 08:55 AM | #3 |
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Re: Experienced fabric dyers - I need help!!!
Let's see, 100% cotton, hand-dyed batik. It'll be made into Hawaiian-type shirts and sundresses. I'll probably be mixing it with a different solid cotton fabric on at least one item, so I don't want it to bleed.
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03-11-2013, 09:10 AM | #4 |
Rose Garden
Some Cal/Mag will probably fix that.
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Re: Experienced fabric dyers - I need help!!!
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allisonintx Wife to Stephen Mother to Elizabeth 19, Andrew 17, Abigail 14 & Evelyn 12 Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take a boat in the air that you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turn of the world. Love keeps her in the air when she ought to fall down. Tells you she's hurting before she keens. Makes her a home. . . . . . . . |
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03-12-2013, 01:14 AM | #5 | |
Rose Garden
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Re: Experienced fabric dyers - I need help!!!
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Hmmm According to that info, I may just have to wash this fabric several times before using it. Awesome!
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