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Me Musing .
. . November
1, 2008 . . .
I have been
continuing on with my adventure
into dye discharge. I had some slate blue stretch corduroy left
over from a pair of 'high-water pants' ('cropped'
as they are now called!) that I made before the Coast trip.
Unfortunately there wasn't enough left for a jacket or even a vest,
so I decided to try doing some dye discharge on the fabric, in hopes
that I could then find a fabric to use along with it to create a
vest.
I've never
been a 'vest' kind of person, but wanted to try making one from
my favorite jacket pattern (ie: just leaving off the sleeves!).
I wasn't sure
if the corduroy was all cotton or not, but figured I'd find out
real fast. I also tried a small piece of another fabric (and
learned it must have polyester in it as it didn't take to the discharge
idea at all!).
I had read that along with the dye discharge I could add a little
colour to it and discharge at the same
time as adding colour.
Intriguing
idea . . . so I tried it!
The fabric shows
up more gray here rather than
the slate blue. The white streaks are the freshly applied discharge
medium
and the yellow-green steaks are the colour I added to some of the
discharge medium.
After it dried
I used steam on the fabric
and the yellow-green steak became really
yellow
rather than the acid green out of the dye bottle!
(The white is where the slate blue of the fabric gave up its colour)
I washed the
fabric to remove the excess discharge paste and
along with it went most of the yellow . . . which actually is OK
by me . . .
AND all a part of the Adventure!
I have looked all through my stash, but still nothing that I want
to use with this 'new' fabric for the vest. To be continued . .
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Until
soon,
Che'usa
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