ahedderick:
ahedderick:
Pants
Me: I love these linen pants and I’d like to get another pair - but they only had black and a light blue that I didn’t like.
K: You could dye them.
Me: I COULD dye them!
K: Purple
Me PURPLLLLLLLEE!
OK! Today is a good day …
Rit “eggplant” acquired - had to send away for the bloody stuff because nowhere local carried it. The local Walmart only has a handful of basic rainbow colors, nothing darker. Rit “colorfast” acquired. Ditto.
The pants weigh less than a pound, so I only had to use half the bottle of dye. Depending on how these come out after a wash or two, I may go back and redo the process with the other half of the dye, because I do want them very dark.
Please ignore how long it was between the first post and the update.
End result: for the shade of purple, 10/10, it is just what I wanted. A dark, reddish purple. Unintended consequences, 5/10, I did not think about the fact that the dye process is fiber-specific, and the thread used to sew the pants is not linen!
Oh, well. I’m just going to have to deal with that. It’s not like I’m planning to wear them to highly formal occasions.
Purple!! Happiness.
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