All things ombre have caught my eye! Perhaps I'm a little behind on the ombre band wagon, but at least I'm on now. Tried doing some ombre to a few cheap-o shirts from target with my Sister on the 4th of July. Learned some good lessons, and I think I'm ready to try it again, but with some actual clothing that I would in fact wear.
Tips for you:
1. Lots and lots of water in your bucket! If the dye bath doesn't have enough water to absorb all the dye powder your finished product will have lots of little tiny dark dots from the powder not completely saturated by the water.
2. The tutorial I used required using rubber bands to mark the separate points where there was a significant fade. I wasn't a fan of the result with the rubber bands. It was a little more tie-dye looking than I wanted. I prefer just sticking it in there, and using your eye to judge the different levels of fading.
3. This tip is probably a combination of my impatience to complete any task, and the fact that I was being attack by ants; don't be afraid to let it soak for a realllllllly long time. The longer the soak, the deeper the color. I didn't let any part of my sit in the dye for more than 5 minutes, so overall my finished products were not super saturated with color. I recommend about 20-30 minutes to get really rich deep colors.
Overall it was a fun little experiment to do. The products I used was the Rit dye, a giant tub for soaking, you also need some salt, rubber gloves (unless you want to be stained-in my case I would have been a smurf), and make sure your water is nice a warm! It didn't specify that on the dye packet, but a fair amount of online tutorials recommend using hot water.
My second current obsession (um yes, thank you pintrest), is crop pants. Every time I get on pintrest I end up repinning a ton of nonsense with lovely pastel colored cropped pants, jean cropped pants, or polka dotted crop pants. I'm not even that big of a fan of wearing pants. I live in Texas, it's too hot for such things. I ended up stopping by a thrift store after the morning church service and found a nice pair of pants from Banana Republic for $7.00. I have to admit I was a little irked to be spending that much on a piece of clothing (needless to say, I've spoiled myself with half price days at Salvation Army). They are a size 4, so they are going to require some downsizing, as well as length adjustments to make them more of the style I'm going for. Can't wait to get cracking away at that project soon! Before and Afters, coming soon!
...Don't even get me started on peter pan collars.
I've also been getting some requests from friends that check out my blog, to help with alterations. I'm definitely open to that, don't hesitate to ask! :)
