1500 Dress progress

[mmcnealy]

The smock for the new dress is done and the mock up has been made and tested. Turns out that "the green wool of frustration that I tried to dye black but ended up a dark teal and well fulled" is usefull. Not only does it make great mockups, it actually appears to be salvagable, so that's the fabric that the dress will be made out of, it has a nice drape to it and its lightweight.

Now if I only didn't have school this week....

I'm trying to decide if I should just devote today to schoolwork and get it out of the way for the week, or work on the dress and do schoolwork later. Probably schoolwork first and dress later. Damn, I hate being responsible sometimes.

I think one of my new online instructors is going to drive me BATTY! She seems to be of the opinion that everybody lives close to the physical school and just takes the class online cause they couldn't get into the physical one. *bangs head against screen*

Comments

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Dyeing something black is apparently very difficult, I ended up with 5-6 metres of wonderful green velvet instead of black. Teal wool doesn't sound too bad either.

Eva

[linuxwitch.livejournal.com]

Yup. When dying a light grey wool with Dharma Fiber Reactive dye I got a mottled wine color.

Although I think my problem was that I couldn't get the dye bath hot enough. Next time, I'm getting out the propane burner. O_o

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Black is appearently a hard color to get, even when you use black dye on white fabric. At the time, the teal result was the culmination of a VBD (very bad day) and I nearly chucked the whole 10 yards of it in the trash, glad I got talked out of it by a friend.

Anyway, lesson learned, if you want black... buy it already black.

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

The jacquard acid dyes are the thing to use on wool, dyes it beautifully, but adding more dye won't get faster results, best to dye it one bottle at a time, better results and less dye wasted.

[linuxwitch.livejournal.com]

I'll have to try that product next time. My dye bath only got to about 140°F, not the 180° that was recommended.

Thanks for the tip :)