Sunday, July 14, 2013

The Quickest Refashions often involve Dye

Not a lot to show with this one except the before and after.
The shirt on the left was fairly new, but the green has never looked very good on me. The shirt on the right is linen, which is a few years old. Linen always seems to fade.
I put them both in a blue dye pot. I always use the cold water dye as it keeps its colour well. I am very happy with the colour of the linen shirt on the left. In fact I like it so much that I think I will do more to it and make it into a proper refashion, maybe a tunic. 
The one on the right I am less pleased with. I pretty much lost the little embroidered flowers, but I do think I will wear the new colour more often.

3 comments:

Refashion said...

I really like the color on both of the new iterations. I can see your point on the flowers, but that's a lovely blue-green. I hope you enjoy them more now! -Seeks, EOD

Unknown said...

perhaps you could embroider over the flowers in a colour that suited the blouse? I've done that with a top before as the threads faded, but when I re-sewed them it looked new again!

concretenprimroses said...

I'm so glad to see this. I just bought 2 nice linen tops at a TS today and the colors are just a bit off, one of them faded, I now realize. I think I will do both in blue like you did.
Kathy