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.
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
ReplyDeleteperhaps 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!
ReplyDeleteI'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.
ReplyDeleteKathy