A tip for future embroidery projects, use wash away stabilizer. It's semi-transparent, so you can draw your design on it without needing a window/light box and it helps to prevent the embroidery from getting wonky when the tension on the fabric changes (very important if you are embroidering on a knit fabric). Once you finish the embroidery, cut away as much excess as possible and dissolve the rest with water.
The reveal of the orange one immediately made me think of a particular outfit from my childhood that I’d forgotten all about. It had a pocket with a little carrot on the inside (sewn on, not like I was a carrot smuggler) and it was like my little secret.
I "Rit" dyed some fabric not long ago, and afterwards discovered that the warp and weft threads were different and I ended up with this really nice kind of colour change effect. Similar to that colour change satiny fabric stuff but subtle. I liked it.
Those all came out really cute, and very "you". I wouldn't have thought to detach and reattach the white trim, very nice touch. "If it's not comfortable, I'm not gonna wear it" is one reason more than half the stuff in my donation pile is there, and the reason for a few modifications I've made to things I really liked despite whatever comfort issue there was. I've used Rit dyes a few times and my biggest complaint is that it's not very UV stable even after using the Rit colour fixative according to the directions, I need to throw the first shirt I made and dyed back in the dye pot next time I have anything else getting dyed a similar colour... I wore it gardening a few times and the outside is now extremely faded where the inside is still pretty vibrant. So I probably won't dye anything else planned as daily outdoor wear with Rit, but it's fine for occasional use where it's not getting washed every week and seeing a lot of sun, I do have a few other things that were dyed with Rit and haven't faded, and after the first wash I didn't have transfer issues (I tossed a white sweat sock in the dark wash just to see, the first one came out faintly purple and it hasn't purpled anything else since, the sock in question has not been permanently dyed) I did get a really neat effect when I got a magenta "boiled wool" that was actually wool pile on a knitted mostly polyester backing and dyed it indigo, and only the pile took the dye so it's a deep grape soda purple with a hint of magenta in the background anywhere the pile is thin, and it's honestly kind of a neat effect and I quite enjoy the winter coat I made with it. And I'm absolutely terrible for tossing anything reasonably dyeable at hand into the dye pot if there's any colour left to the water, this is how I end up with green or purple tie -dyed cotton undies :) I also did some experiments with ombre dyeing some linen scraps that turned out interesting enough to be used as part of a friend's Xmas present the year after the thing I originally dyed for her!
It all looks great.. . You say you are no mistress of your embroidery needle ... and then do a perfectly nice piece of work on your shirt! I always found dying a bit of a puzzle. It is very difficult to get it exactly right.
Rit powder works far better than their liquid dye, if you ever decided to use it again. I like the easy accessibility of rit dye, over waiting on dharma and paying for shipping and while dharma dyes are consistent, the measuring and figuring out your own water to dye ratio with them can be a bit of trial and error.
Yay! I love this upcycling as a way to fall in love with your clothes even more &keep them from the landfill 💖💖💖 the green ones are def my personal favs
Dharma Trading has really nice dyes and really good customer service for answering questions about whatever you’re working on. They’ve been around for years too. I’d suggest checking out them next time you want to experiment with dying. 😊
Your "thrift" flips turned out wonderfully and really match your personal style. I can't wait to see what you do next! If you still long for shirred sleeves on the green blouse, you might be able to piece together a more flared sleeve using the scrap fabric and fit the sleeves back in. That would be an even more extreme makeover, but perhaps that's something you'd like to try later. ;)
At least in Australia, you can get a lot of really good natural fiber dyes from yarn stores. They're a tiny bit more expensive than a single packet of RIT dye, but I find they come in so many more shades and are much truer to color, so you don't have to mix and match (so you actually save money really).
Those all look so sweet! I have my fingers crossed for the longevity of the dye - I haven't had great luck with cotton + rit dyes, they tended to fade significantly when washing. I think with cotton it's better to use procion dyes, whereas rit works better with wool. But they all look so gorgeous!
I found using Rit's colour stabilizer helped a lot with the transfer issue, but that it's really not very UV-stable, the outside of my dyed shirt is very faded but the inside if it isn't that far off what the original colour was right after dyeing.
The blouses all came out so nice! I think my favorite is the blue one. Is the second green top also thrifted? I love how it has an Edwardian feel to it with the insertion lace!
This has nothing to do with this video but i respect you and i need help. Do you know where the left cast on eyelet is on a knitting machine? My manual says its #3 but there is no picture. Where on earth is the start of the cast on. I'm so confused and you seem to understand what you are doing. Thank you in advance.
Rit dye lies! I have had several projects come out completely different than expected. It's very frustrating! Your tops turned out lovely, I hope you get a lot of wear out of them.
It's not you. RIT dye just sucks. There are way better dyes than this to use on cotton that will give you a desired effect. Also, potash to set the dye is a good idea, and non-iodized salt. If you can't find or have potash, most def use non-iodized salt to set the dye.
A tip for future embroidery projects, use wash away stabilizer. It's semi-transparent, so you can draw your design on it without needing a window/light box and it helps to prevent the embroidery from getting wonky when the tension on the fabric changes (very important if you are embroidering on a knit fabric). Once you finish the embroidery, cut away as much excess as possible and dissolve the rest with water.
The reveal of the orange one immediately made me think of a particular outfit from my childhood that I’d forgotten all about. It had a pocket with a little carrot on the inside (sewn on, not like I was a carrot smuggler) and it was like my little secret.
Carrot 🥕 smuggler made me giggle!
Omg that sounds so cute
Omg 😮 totally doing this
Now I want to embroider all my shirts!!
I "Rit" dyed some fabric not long ago, and afterwards discovered that the warp and weft threads were different and I ended up with this really nice kind of colour change effect. Similar to that colour change satiny fabric stuff but subtle. I liked it.
The final bonus one. I'm so smitten!!
They all look much better and so much more you!
I've been tempted to try and dye some of my clothing too, but haven't been brave enough to do it. Your transformations look great!
Those all came out really cute, and very "you". I wouldn't have thought to detach and reattach the white trim, very nice touch. "If it's not comfortable, I'm not gonna wear it" is one reason more than half the stuff in my donation pile is there, and the reason for a few modifications I've made to things I really liked despite whatever comfort issue there was.
I've used Rit dyes a few times and my biggest complaint is that it's not very UV stable even after using the Rit colour fixative according to the directions, I need to throw the first shirt I made and dyed back in the dye pot next time I have anything else getting dyed a similar colour... I wore it gardening a few times and the outside is now extremely faded where the inside is still pretty vibrant. So I probably won't dye anything else planned as daily outdoor wear with Rit, but it's fine for occasional use where it's not getting washed every week and seeing a lot of sun, I do have a few other things that were dyed with Rit and haven't faded, and after the first wash I didn't have transfer issues (I tossed a white sweat sock in the dark wash just to see, the first one came out faintly purple and it hasn't purpled anything else since, the sock in question has not been permanently dyed)
I did get a really neat effect when I got a magenta "boiled wool" that was actually wool pile on a knitted mostly polyester backing and dyed it indigo, and only the pile took the dye so it's a deep grape soda purple with a hint of magenta in the background anywhere the pile is thin, and it's honestly kind of a neat effect and I quite enjoy the winter coat I made with it.
And I'm absolutely terrible for tossing anything reasonably dyeable at hand into the dye pot if there's any colour left to the water, this is how I end up with green or purple tie -dyed cotton undies :) I also did some experiments with ombre dyeing some linen scraps that turned out interesting enough to be used as part of a friend's Xmas present the year after the thing I originally dyed for her!
Wow you're serving major Katharine Hepburn vibes! The tops look amazing!
I am SOOOOO impressed with your embroidery! It's lovely and so well done!
Love them all but I agree with you the green was the best transformation, nice job😊
It all looks great.. . You say you are no mistress of your embroidery needle ... and then do a perfectly nice piece of work on your shirt! I always found dying a bit of a puzzle. It is very difficult to get it exactly right.
They all turned out uniquely lovely! :)
Honestly, they all turned out beautifully. I love all the colours and the embroidery looked fantastic. You should be so proud of them all 😊 xx
Rit powder works far better than their liquid dye, if you ever decided to use it again. I like the easy accessibility of rit dye, over waiting on dharma and paying for shipping and while dharma dyes are consistent, the measuring and figuring out your own water to dye ratio with them can be a bit of trial and error.
Yay! I love this upcycling as a way to fall in love with your clothes even more &keep them from the landfill 💖💖💖 the green ones are def my personal favs
Dharma Trading has really nice dyes and really good customer service for answering questions about whatever you’re working on. They’ve been around for years too. I’d suggest checking out them next time you want to experiment with dying. 😊
Your "thrift" flips turned out wonderfully and really match your personal style. I can't wait to see what you do next!
If you still long for shirred sleeves on the green blouse, you might be able to piece together a more flared sleeve using the scrap fabric and fit the sleeves back in. That would be an even more extreme makeover, but perhaps that's something you'd like to try later. ;)
Adding "gussets" from the sleeve scraps was going to be my suggestion too! :) Great minds, & all that.
They're all beautiful, but the bonus blouse was just amazing!!!
Love your antique sewing machine. I have my mother's old black and gold Singer machine. I liked dying faded or dingy cotton items too.
The embroidery turned out so pretty!
The tops turned out great but I am even more in love with your hair in the reveal at the end! I think we need a tutorial 😊
can i have all of these tops, please? and the embriodery, wow! I love them. well done!
Taht blue one is so cute!
How do they look more vintagey after they were dyed? That is crazy! Love all the looks.
They’re all so pretty! And wow I love that extra bonus shirt too!
You are so full of talent , beautiful embroidery , great work
I'm so impressed with how the dying turned out! I only tried dying fabric once and it turned out very blotchy. Your "new" blouses are lovely.
At least in Australia, you can get a lot of really good natural fiber dyes from yarn stores. They're a tiny bit more expensive than a single packet of RIT dye, but I find they come in so many more shades and are much truer to color, so you don't have to mix and match (so you actually save money really).
They look fabulous! I'm so impressed with the embroidery, too - an art I've yet to try. That sewing machine!!! Nice.
the blue was my favorite until I saw the bonus top!
Wow! I love the first transformation and the bonus one best.Maybe. No, I like them all and the fact you chose to do this and show us!
... that you are a genius!
Oh my is that an amazing Willcox and Gibbs sewing machine I see? I'm new to your channel and loving it
They look amazing! Well done.
They’re so cute! Nice job!
Those all look so sweet! I have my fingers crossed for the longevity of the dye - I haven't had great luck with cotton + rit dyes, they tended to fade significantly when washing. I think with cotton it's better to use procion dyes, whereas rit works better with wool. But they all look so gorgeous!
I did some tie dye with Rit and it faded and transferred everywhere. 😢
I found using Rit's colour stabilizer helped a lot with the transfer issue, but that it's really not very UV-stable, the outside of my dyed shirt is very faded but the inside if it isn't that far off what the original colour was right after dyeing.
The blouses all came out so nice! I think my favorite is the blue one. Is the second green top also thrifted? I love how it has an Edwardian feel to it with the insertion lace!
Excellent ideas
Gorgeous results! ❤
This has nothing to do with this video but i respect you and i need help. Do you know where the left cast on eyelet is on a knitting machine? My manual says its #3 but there is no picture. Where on earth is the start of the cast on. I'm so confused and you seem to understand what you are doing. Thank you in advance.
Wow very well done!!! I like all of them. Happy for you, that you could change them into something more usable for you. Greetings from the Netherlands
Love these transformations! So inspiring
Beautiful transformations, and very inspiring!! I love the embroidery work you did.
They turned out lovely!
Where's the blouse at the end from, the bonus one? It's so pretty!
What is the pattern of the sweater you're wearing? It's so nice
Omg where did you get the blouse with the strawberry embroidery?? It's adorable!
Great transformations!
You did a lovely job on the embroidery/dying! Do you happen to remember where you got the last top?
Well done! Everything looks amazing love the surprise fourth!
After watching a few of your videos, I concluded.....
Rit dye lies! I have had several projects come out completely different than expected. It's very frustrating! Your tops turned out lovely, I hope you get a lot of wear out of them.
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It's not you. RIT dye just sucks. There are way better dyes than this to use on cotton that will give you a desired effect. Also, potash to set the dye is a good idea, and non-iodized salt. If you can't find or have potash, most def use non-iodized salt to set the dye.
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