I have never heard of that it looks so awesome. I would like to try it but I'm to afraid to. My dress has light pink flowers on it, so a light pink slip would go great with it, and I bought a pair of "glass slippers" not really but close enough for me.
LOVE IT!!!!!!! THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I WANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where'd you get the dye at???
GOOD LUCK LINDA!
(so does the inside of my machine).
Ok, so operation crinoline dyeing took place this weekend.
Julie and I both ended up with red arms, but I think the end results are worth it (I hope she thinks it too!)
In retrospect, we should have taken some photos in the process, coz we must have looked quite funny....
I didn't want to do it in the washing machine in case I ruined it, so we did it in a large plastic storage tub, filled with boiling water from various trips with the kettle and pans on the hob.
Simon graciously carried this outside for us so we didn't make a mess in the house, so we both sat out on our driveway in the sun, thankfully the weather actually held out for a change lately!
We soaked it in cold water first, then added the Rit dye to the hot tub and gave it a stir. We discovered it was too hot for our ickle hands, even with the super protection of marigolds, and I hadn't thought about stiring implements, so we used 2 coat hangers to stir and prod the skirt about with!
The skirt went in when the dye was all mixed in (it was the liquid dye, so pretty much mixed itself anyway) and we turned it around every 5 minutes or so to get the colour spread evenly, and kept pushing it down to be submerged constantly.
We could see it started a pretty pale pink, and I wasn't sure it was going to take at all, but as time went on we could see it getting darker.
After about 40 minutes we decided the colour didn't seem to be taking any more, and the resulting skirt colour was a pretty bright magenta kind of pink. This concerned me slightly, as I thought it would clash horribly with the burgandy bridesmaid dresses and roses, but I figures I could still wear it anyway, just for fun.
We then transferred it to a cool water tub, back and forth til the water ran clear.
We hung it out on the washing line to dry, and then in the garage when we went out later that afternoon.
When we returned in the evening, and had a peek in the garage, low and behold it appeared sooooo much darker, bizarre seeing as it was already dry when it went in there.
the colour was called wine, so maybe it just needed some time to mature, but I'm really please with how it finally turned out.
Here is the finished result (this flash on this picture actually makes it look pinker, and more like we expected it to finish when seeing it wet):
But I've just tried it on under my dress (after much rustling around and thinking I couldn't get back out of it - and Simon wanting to help but me shouting nooooooooo don't come up here!) for the full effect, and these 2 pictures give a much more accurate representation of the colour:
So I deem this mission (successfully) accomplished!
Big thanks to Julie for making me leave it in the dye longer when my short attention span was trying to convince me otherwise, and to Simon for lugging big tubs of water around for us!!
