Day 86: Third time is a charm!

Wow So I don't know what happened! I thought I had today covered but looks like I did not. I just got back from a whirlwind trip filled with drama in D.C. We were looking for apartments and to get a feel for the area before I go to work there. The weather was lovely. But I am really tired! I had to wake up at 3am EST to drive to the airport. And dodge deer on the side of the road. Wow, its been a long day. Well on Day 80, I posted a refashion of the shirt I dyed 2x!

It went from this white shirt

to this bad light green shirt

to then blue

But I really wasn't happy with it. Then in my last dyeing experience before the move, I attempted to dye this jacket darker with RIT black dye.

I threw in this shirt while I was at it. For the jacket, long story short- the jacket fell apart in the wash. It was old and only $1. Black RIT dye here I come!

Long story short, the jacket just didn't hold up in the wash. So it is a goner. I was sad. However the new shirt color came out this awesome charcoal grey! Yes! Score!

Yeah we are approaching the chaotic move. It is chaotic for many reasons which I won't get into right now. I didn't have the time (nor do I want any messier apartment pictures on my blog!) so you got a couch photo. The shirt is MUCH more wearable now! For more of my 90 days of blogging click here!

4 more days left! yay!!!!!!

xoxoxoxo
Lauren

A tale of 2 different colors but 1 dye

I had this silver lace that I got on mega clearance from Hobby Lobby. It was pretty but I never got inspired by it for any project. The color tone was off and I couldn't make it work! I dyed to dye it, I did not know what the composition was of the fabric so I thought I would take a stab at using good ol' RIT Dye in black.

I tried the first round and prepped my dye like I normally do on the stovetop. Initially I got a gold in the mix with the lace. When I washed it, the lace was like a brown army green with gold tones. Pretty awesome. I was just happy it was not silver and grey.

I then redid the rest of the lace with the black dye from RIT Dye again. I prepped my dye black and lace like I normally do. I did notice when I added the dye it had different sort of speckles of color. What I wound up with this round was completely different. It got this gorgeous bronze brown.



Here is the 2 of them together.


I expected maybe 2 different tones of the green but I did not image that I would get 2 different colors all together. I think they may have been 2 different lots. I love both and I plan on using both but wow! What a surprise!!! At least it is no longer silver grey!

xoxoxo,
Lauren