Recent Posts Tagged With 'silk'

• Dyeing to Dye Pt. II

  Posted on Sunday March 15th, 2009 at 08:41 in DIY, silk, skirt, dye, dylon

  As promised, I’m sharing my little adventures in dyeing some raw silk I’d purchased using Dylon Cold. I’ve never used any of these mass market dyes before, at college we always stuck to “industry” dyes and I’ve nev...

• Dyeing to Dye

  Posted on Saturday March 14th, 2009 at 16:48 in illustration, DIY, silk, skirt, dye, teddy bears, dylon

  Tomorrow I’ll be attempting to dye some raw silk I purchased this week in an attempt to turn it from a light gold into a yellowy deeper gold, perhaps a mustard-ish tone. I have plans to turn the silk into a skirt for which I have the pattern re...