So exciting!

Well, I’ve finally gone and done it. I decided to open up an etsy shop and sell dyed fabrics/bags/shirts. I couldn’t keep it a secret any longer!

http://dyeabolical.etsy.com

See the lovely header? I did it all by myself (I am soooo proud!), and it was quite a challenge, as paint shop pro doesn’t play well with vista on my computer, and kept crashing when I wanted to add the text. I really need to get a different program…. I used one of my favorite shirts for the background.

Of course, it is not populated. I haven’t even had a chance to get out and dye yet. I will definitely post when it comes up and show you some of the lovelies I’m working on for it. Hopefully in the next 2-3 weeks, I’ll have some wonderful goodies to show you all… I’m currently in the process of sewing up a slew of fabric shopping bags for the first dye round. Also bought a bunch of 60″ white kona cotton to dye as yardage and sell.

I also joined the Mad Scientist team on etsy, where we make items with a science twist for challenges, etc. This is going to be fun!

Tie Dye with a side of Christmas prep

We did a spot of tiedye yesterday. I had ordered 8 fabric bags to dye for use as Christmas gifts, and the glitter glue princess and S had shirts to do. First up, the glitter glue princess’ work:

Four shirts for herself…

And two for the pup she sometimes puppy sits:

S made a shirt:

And here are my bags for holiday gifts:

One last very cute shot:

I had done some work on sheeting to make a bean bag cover and another shower curtain, but they didn’t come out as desired (too homogeneous in color) and will be redone for another day.

S had some friends over who did some shirts too:

A bit of sewing

This has been a hectic month - not much accomplished. Too many kidlet parties, too many things to get done before school - it is just a crazy time.

But…. I did finally get the shower curtain sewed together from a couple entries ago… It is for a small shower stall that I’ve just used a nasty blue gingham curtain on for the last few years. Well, it is now properly dressed:

This bathroom is in our basement (mostly used by me in the morning to keep the noise down from the sleeping masses).

After having it up for a few weeks, I *think* I need to dye something a bit lighter - the shower is now pretty dark. This will probably take a year or two to change at the rate it took me to get this one done - HA!

More dying of our own

Following the party at John’s, we had some more dying of our own. S wanted to make a sneetch shirt, a yellow shirt with a green star on it, and I had a number of pieces that needed LWI treatment - a fabric piece for a pillowcase, and another for a shower curtain. Here are the pics:

The unfinished shower curtain -

The unfinished pillowcase -

Random dyed item images -

Unfortunately, S had some overspray and was disappointed in his sneetch shirt, and wants to make it again - no pics.

Glitter Glue Princess invited the Divine Miss Em over and she dyed too.

Helping at someone elses tie dye party

John was so taken by the whole tiedye thing at our last party, that he just had to have one for himself! He asked for our help. Of course, he invited everyone he knew…. What I found most interesting was how these people were inencumbered by having never tiedyed before, bringing more than one item to dye, and they just dove right in. I swear there were like 50 items tiedyed by beginners here, and they all had fun.

Here are a few of the results:

 

 

 

A pic of John and his shirt:

 

And these are a couple of my most favorite pics from this party. Look at these happy faces:

 

The Great Dyed….Couch?

Well, it is *actually* a couch cover, but it still took a mountain of dye. This little gem was brought back by S from one of his Pink Floydian Road Trips. His host and hostess, R & M, requested that I dye their couch cover. It was a sickly shade of baby aspirin before I started. Knowing full well that they are into the psychedelic thing, and after inventorying my dyes to see what I had enough of to do this number, I opted for secondary colors - orange, emerald green, and grape. It took 6 liters of prepared dyes, and the biggest tub I’ve ever dyed in to do this. When I first started the rinse, it had much more of a tinge of camouflage to it than it does after finally being washed, which concerned me, as R & M do not remind of dull subtle people who would want a camo couch… Now it is *much* brighter and more to my liking.

 

See for yourself - many thanks to R & M for sharing the action shots of the couch with me!

I think this just proves that I will try dying anything at least once - what will be next? Bring it on!

It’s a tie dye kinda weekend, part 4 - Last in this series

And we shall begin the shirts I dyed…

 

Used Lemon Yellow and Emerald Green.

 

 

Used Robins Egg Blue and Grape.

 

 

Peacock and Royal Blue

 

 

Peacock and Jade Green.

 

 

 

These last two are escaping me for the colors I used.

 

Well, now you know why I like the name Dye-abolical Designs for this bloggity blog…

 

If anyone would like to experience color at it’s organic finest, please call and come on over, we’d be happy to have another party…

It’s a tie dye kinda weekend, part 3

And after two posts on regular Tie Dye, we are moving to the LWI (Low Water Immersion) dye.

This is one of the best references for doing this kind of dye if anyone wants to give it a try… It is great on plain fabric for making something special to add to a quilt (hint, hint).  All the items are made with only two colors.  We tend to do similar folding to that of tie dye, then cram it into a pail rather than tying it.  This explains why you might see similar patterns as those on the earlier pages.

These first few are by the Glitter Glue Princess:

(We didn’t put enough dye on it and got the gradations by putting more water into the container to soak before the set - Princess doesn’t like it, but I think it is cool!  Used Hot Pink and Ultraviolet)

Used seafoam and jade green.

Used lemon yellow and red wine.

She also had a little pair of underbritches, but she’d murder me if I posted them here. (So, here is a link to them - hehehe.)

On to my LWI shirts…. I’m adding a day due to the high content of photos.

It’s a tie dye kinda weekend, part 2

Now for the remaining tie dyes:

S’s shirt:

Glitter Glue Princess’s Towel:

And the baby outfits I’ve made for shower gifts…

Now on to the LWI dyes.

It’s a tie dye kinda weekend, part 1

What better way to spend a long weekend than by dying every white shirt in the house! Here are some pics of completed works for your amusement.  S had a friend from work and his son brought a pal, so we had lots of great work!  Actually, we have too many pics for one day, so I’m going to make this into a few posts.  Days one and two will be tie dyes and day three will be LWI dyes.

So here are day ones pics:

These are the friends shirts.  Not bad for their first try, yes?

Tomorrow, S’s shirts, the glitter glue princess’ towel and my baby present outfits.