progress: dyeing polyester in the pale moonlight~
Spent most of last night dyeing the suede for Endrance: MY GOD, WHAT A CHORE. I wasted six hours running pots of boiling dye back and forth between the horse trough dye vat and my stove, and it still didn't get hot enough to make the dye stick properly. In the end I boiled the 65 gallons of dye down to 30 gallons and just stovetop dyed the fabric, which yielded the correct color but also came out splotchy as hell. The heat also messed up the pile of the suede a little, it's less leathery and more velvety now. The important part is that I started out with 6 yards of usable fabric and came away with, like... three yards. Maybe.
I stopped in Jo-Ann's on the way up here and had a lightingbolt-of-glee moment: the tool I saw being used in the Cosmode faux flower tutorial DOES exist in the United States! It's a quilting iron with a round head attachment. Yeah, stop laughing at my incompetence, I can't actually read the article >:( Anyways, point is, after spending hours on failed jury-riggings with brass drawer pulls and soldering iron and fire and melted plastic, I know what I need to get to make the flowers on the hat match the runched fabric on the sash. Awwwwwww yeah. Now I just have to order it from Amazon so it's waiting for me when I get home.
I stopped in Jo-Ann's on the way up here and had a lightingbolt-of-glee moment: the tool I saw being used in the Cosmode faux flower tutorial DOES exist in the United States! It's a quilting iron with a round head attachment. Yeah, stop laughing at my incompetence, I can't actually read the article >:( Anyways, point is, after spending hours on failed jury-riggings with brass drawer pulls and soldering iron and fire and melted plastic, I know what I need to get to make the flowers on the hat match the runched fabric on the sash. Awwwwwww yeah. Now I just have to order it from Amazon so it's waiting for me when I get home.