December 29, 2010
Fabric Dilemma
Now that V is in her toddler bed, I need to make her a nice little duvet cover that compliments her bed skirt. I ordered this vintage striped sheet from Etsy, but now realize that the colors might not mesh as well as I had hoped.
I want to dye over the sheet to change the white to a more off white, and in doing so slightly darken the pinks in the sheet. But how do I do this? I know that I have read about dying over patterned fabric in the past, but cannot for the life of me find any tutorials online!
Should I use a tea to lightly change the color? I do have plenty of fabric to test this method out a bit.
I am also going to spray paint Violet’s toddler bed. It was given to us by my sweet sister-in-law, and she has given me her blessing to do with it what I want.
I am leaning towards a deeper blue or a green. But I am open to other colors…. oh my indecisive mind!
So what do you guys think? Can you recommend any great dying techniques or DIY’s? Which paint color for the bed?
Stacie
Unfortunately, I have no recommendations for dying the fabric, but I vote green for the bed. Also, I just wanted to say that I love the fabric you used for the bedskirt. I saw that a while ago and have wanted to order some ever since.
Disclaimer – I’m no pro at dying fabric.
I think the tea would darken the pinks, but also might warm them up and make them a bit browner.
I’d make test strips, mix up several strengths of tea and try a couple different packages of rit dye and then decide.
Green bed. You know you want to. You can’t escape it.
Apearantly, so glad that you like the fabric for violet’s bed skirt! It is Alexander Henry!
Sage! I am trying the tea stain idea tomorrow.
Jenna, you know I cannot get away from green! I have to find the green color in plastic ready spray paint!
Over a year ago Oh Fransson did a few dying experiments and put them on her blog. These may help you out:
http://www.ohfransson.com/oh_fransson/2009/04/fabric-alteration-experiment-2-overdye.html
The light green would match really well but the blue may really make everything pop if that is what you are going for.
I vote blue for the bed since green looks like it would match the walls. :]