… literally. I’m dyeing heaps of stuff lately.
My ultramarine corduroy skirt. I was bored with it, and didn’t wear it at all during me-made May even though it was season appropriate. That is A Sign. I dunno, I’d gone off the colour; the brightness of it felt a bit passe, a bit garish, not serious enough for winter.
So…. to the dye pot! Plunging your clothes into a pot of dye feels so adventurous, and a little bit dangerous. Like a thrilling, reckless and risky thing to do. Yeah? Man, I need to get out more.
This was dyed with iDye in Chestnut.
It did come out a lot less brown than I thought it would. I thought, bright blue mixed with orange-y brown would maybe beget a chocolate-y offspring, or a deeper version of the corduroy in my hoodie jacket I am wearing above. The new colour reads like deep dark petrol, a dirty midnight blue and I like it all over again now. I’m super happy with the nuovo neutral-ness of it. Feels like an actual new skirt, yay.
Then I turned to my ombre-d red velveteen skirt. I did this only last week, but when I compared it to my original version, I realised that my re-ombre-ing efforts had been pretty darn pathetic. So I re-ombred the re-ombred skirt in iDye in Brown. So now it has been re-re-ombred. Ha!
And my sludgy little skirt had lost some of its sludge, so it got a fresh dunking and a soaking in the leftovers.
Re-sludge-ing, accomplished.
Details:
Skirt; Vogue 1170, blue corduroy dyed chestnut, original details here and my review of this pattern here
Top (under); the loose drape top from drape drape, white cotton, details here
Hoodie; self-drafted, made from a pair of old corduroy jeans and long sleeved Tshirt, details here
Tights; self-drafted, black merino wool fabric, details here
Boots; nylon, from Zomp shoes
Red skirt; Vogue 1247, red cotton velveteen ombre dyed brown at the top, details here
Brown skirt; Vogue 1247, purple denim dyed brown, details and my review of this pattern here.
