I kinda dyed the inside of my microwave purple…<\/p>\n
Thanks for everyone’s comments. I tried a few more variations of the cream plus metallic and other things, but it just isn’t working. I’ve already frogged the border that I did last night after posting to test whether or not one row of the cream would show up. The problem with purple is that I already tried every shade of purple made by DMC, Crescent Colours, Dinky Dyes, The Gentle Art, Dragon Floss and Carrie’s Threads. The shade in the fabric is just odd enough that nothing works.<\/p>\n
So, since I’m working from home today anyway, I decided to throw the rest of the length of cream silk that I was using into a mini purple dye bath in the microwave. Except I used a plastic cup. And it melted in less than 2 minutes. And there was purple dye running out of the bottom of my closed microwave door. And the inside is now half purple. Oops!<\/p>\n
I wrote to Terry in his meeting and asked him to stop at the grocery store on the way home for some bleach-infused cleanser. When I told him what happened, his response was, “We’ll get it out. Or dye the rest of it purple.” It helps to have a level-headed husband when you’re a spaz. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
So, I’ll see what I can do with floss colors, because I really like that fabric. I’m now thinking of a sepia tone to give it that old-fashioned photograph kind of feel. There’s a short vein of a brown-ish color in the fabric that I’m going to try to coordinate with.<\/p>\n
Thanks for all of your advice! The frogging wasn’t too bad after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I kinda dyed the inside of my microwave purple… Thanks for everyone’s comments. I tried a few more variations of the cream plus metallic and other things, but it just isn’t working. I’ve already frogged the border that I did … Continue reading