In which I race against a dying battery to show more stuff I found for my daughter's cosplay outfit, and a THIRD blanket I'm going to be donating this Saturday at my monthly Project Linus meeting.
The costuming really seems like it's coming along! So much work though :D (I've never been one for dressing up much, so my lazy self would want to just buy everything all ready to go.)
If you ever make another granny-ghan after all these are gone, I'll be shocked ;D
I actually find it hard to believe that I used to make her earliest costumes mainly from scratch. Once I started refashioning clothes from the thrift store I never looked back, lol. I need to get cracking though, because I signed up for the October swap and I need to get that done too.
OMG I know, enough with the granny squares. I should have done them all more like the one I had in this video. 35 squares in a single blanket. Instead of baby sized. I would have been done ages ago if I had made them all this big! I do love the challenge of finding yarn in my stash to crochet them all together, though.
Refashioning things definitely seems to be the way to go - at least with the bigger pieces! I mean, sewing up that coat would be a crazy amount of work and it's not cheap to make things, even if you find fabric for a decent price.
She may decide to go with the turq plaid flannel, in which case I'll probably take the dye back. She's off tomorrow and Friday so that will be a good time for her to make a decision and also remove buttons and stitching.
Wow, major score with the jacket! You're right, there's no way you could've bought the material for that, and then you'd have to sew a structured jacket.
My thought with dying the cotton flannel is flannel shrinks up a lot when it's washed and Rit dye has you use hot water (if I'm recalling that right, been ages since I used it) so you might end up with less yardage. Or not, I've been wrong before. :) Procion's a cold water dye but not as available, plus you need soda ash...so former fiber arts major is rambling here. Sorry!
I had already picked out a pattern to useto make the coat out of fleece, but I'm super happy not to have to do that! :D
Thankfully, I have done a lot of dyeing for previous costuming efforts, so I'm not too worried about anything 100% cotton as long as I prewash it. I also bought extra fabric for that very same reason, so I would dye it before cutting into it. I have actually used soda ash with cotton, but it's not a necessity. I keep kosher salt and vinegar on hand all the time for dyeing. I'm so glad to know I can come to you with questions, though. I needed you about this time last year when I had a disastrous dye attempt on non-cotton fabric. My kitchen looked like a murder scene.
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If you ever make another granny-ghan after all these are gone, I'll be shocked ;D
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OMG I know, enough with the granny squares. I should have done them all more like the one I had in this video. 35 squares in a single blanket. Instead of baby sized. I would have been done ages ago if I had made them all this big! I do love the challenge of finding yarn in my stash to crochet them all together, though.
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I'm looking forward to seeing how the flannel works out. I've never tried dying it before so definitely curious about the results.
Woo, use up those granny squares!
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My thought with dying the cotton flannel is flannel shrinks up a lot when it's washed and Rit dye has you use hot water (if I'm recalling that right, been ages since I used it) so you might end up with less yardage. Or not, I've been wrong before. :) Procion's a cold water dye but not as available, plus you need soda ash...so former fiber arts major is rambling here. Sorry!
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Thankfully, I have done a lot of dyeing for previous costuming efforts, so I'm not too worried about anything 100% cotton as long as I prewash it. I also bought extra fabric for that very same reason, so I would dye it before cutting into it. I have actually used soda ash with cotton, but it's not a necessity. I keep kosher salt and vinegar on hand all the time for dyeing. I'm so glad to know I can come to you with questions, though. I needed you about this time last year when I had a disastrous dye attempt on non-cotton fabric. My kitchen looked like a murder scene.
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