Guess who ruined more fabric with dye and is going to have to go buy more fabric again?
I have no idea what happened. This was the weirdest dye experience I’ve ever had. I’d done tests on this fabric and they’d all turned out fine. I staggered the dyeing — a few panels of the dress in for 10 minutes, then took those out to dry while I did another set in for 10 minutes. Because I didn’t want to overcrowd the pot.
Some panels turned out exactly how I wanted, perfect.
Some panels didn’t take the dye at all. Anywhere.
Some panels came out splotchy.
Some panels came out GREEN.
One panel came out in a perfect gradient – green to dark blue to the original colour at the bottom, like it hadn’t even been in the dye.
I have no idea. I had enough fabric to recut another front panel and new sleeves. I figured the sides and back could stay like they were since they wouldn’t be seen. Second front panel came out terribly splotchy and a totally different colour than the sleeves (which weren’t splotchy at all and were perfect) — AND THEY WERE IN THE POT AT THE SAME TIME. I STIRRED NON STOP. I made sure nothing was sticking together! They were cleaned first! I HAVE NO IDEA.
Here’s the sleeves in front of the front panel that were dyed at the same time. Colour is a little blown out since I was holding the camera so close, but you can still see the difference.
SO I gave up. I ordered a fabric swatch of an already dyed fabric that I’m hoping might work. Going to Joann’s tomorrow to look around for another backup.
It has already been a super stressful week thanks to work and whatnot and I just didn’t have the patience for this. After all the dye problems with the outer robe, this was supposed to be the easy part and the whole thing made me very angry. I ruined all that pretty fabric.
At least I can use it as a lining now, so the dress will be fully lined. Silver lining I guess.
In other news, yesterday was a VERY GOOD mail day!
Two of them were Chase’s and ended up not being interesting.
The other two were for me! One was Mon Mothma wig #2:
The wig I got a few weeks ago was ok, but it was REALLY fighting me trying to change the part. It was super poofy too. I was going to take it to my hairdresser to get it thinned out and cleaned up and was hoping that would work fine.
But then Arda just came out with this new undercut style…. and they showed it styled in lots of different ways. So I thought, what the hey. Let’s try it and see if it’ll work better than the other one. Been a long time since I bought 2 wigs for one project, I’m allowed to do it every once in a while, right?
It’s SUPER thick! And the hair moves around easily so already it’s looking much easier to style. Going to take both wigs to my hairdresser and see which one he likes better but I think it’s obviously going to have to be the Arda. Just needs to be thinned out a bit I think.
I also got… Teddy Grahams???
I ordered a pair of plain character shoes and with them came a Blue Apron $30 gift card and a box of new Teddy Grahams “SoftBakes.” I was not expecting cookies.
Shoes are a TINY bit big but are very comfortable and cushy. I see why people prefer these. I’ve got to paint them pink – I think I have some leftover pink fabric paint I can use. I might go to art center tomorrow to see what they have.
Anyway, since I was stuck on Leia last night, I switched back around to the pink monster. Got the zipper put into the skirt and then started seeing if I could sew the sequin trim onto the ruffles without damaging the sequins.
A big zig-zag stitch and it worked GREAT! I got them sewn onto all but 3 ruffles – I would’ve done them all but I ran out of thread.
So I’m going to stop to get some more on my way home this afternoon so I can finish them off tonight. Then maybe tomorrow finally get them all attached? I may have to make more. I still haven’t gotten them ALL pinned on at once because I keep running out of enough pins to do that. Maybe I buy more pins tomorrow too.