Day 318: To Dye For Dress
Hooray for having a washing machine that once again gets hot water! 
I knew Iād want to dye something right away! I chose this little dress for today.
Bleh!
This dress suffers from the same condition of many other little dresses that find their way to thrift store clearance bins. Itās faded and stained.
Stains! 
Ohā¦and the red parts have bled into the white parts. :/
See?
Nowā¦this dress in unsellable is its current condition, all it needs is a little dye job to get it looking nice & new!
I reached for a box of dye.
Hello, old friend!
Some of you guys might think my color choice is a bit odd. I went with dark brown because Brown + Red = Maroon, which is one of my favorite colors! I also really wanted to make this dress a bit more muted.
I mixed up my dyeā¦
Not the classiest vessel, I know!
ā¦and added it to my washing machine!
Sudsy!
I left my dress in the dye bath for about 40 minutes, then gave it a rinse & dry!
Now that dress is looking new and fabu!
Nicely done!
Cheers to being able to dye again!
I spent my evening just hanging out watching Woody Allen movies with the very sweet Pongo.
Isnāt he handsome?
Yay for dye!
Cheers!
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15 Responses to Day 318: To Dye For Dress
You genuinely saved that dress. The before reminds me so much of Alice in Wonderland, Queen of Hearts. The after is perfect!
That turned out really amazing. I didnāt think Iād like the brown at all (I normally donāt like it at all but I LOVED it on this dress!
I really liked the original dress color, but love the new one! You transformed it from cute to fabulous.
Love the dress!
My daughter and I were so inspired by your ideas we did one of our own! Took an old pair of shorts of hers (sheās 9) that were a little too tight, ripped the crotch seam, sewed each side up and made it into the cutest tube top with straps! Now weāre looking around for more clothing to re-purpose! Awesome blog!!
That sounds adorable, I hope you 2 have a blog??
Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with this site, just a fan/stalker 
Wow that made a huge difference! Definitely muted the bright and Alice in Wonderland-ish-ness. Iām inspired to pick up some Rit!
I have been so jealous of you. We donāt have a Goodwill Outlet around here. Sooooooā¦.I did some sleuthing. My favorite, already very cheap, thrift shop will sell me a huge bag of their āunsaleableā clothes for $1 a bag. A bag weighs at least 10 pounds. I can root through it, but the bags are clear & I can get a rough idea. Iāll be trying a few of your ideas shortly!
Canāt root through!!!!! Geez I need to learn to proofread!!!
Bought 5 bagsā¦have sorted. Thereās some good stuff in there. Lots of menās shirts & ties that I canāt find anything wrong with other than theyāre dated.
Hi Jillian,
Iāve tried dying a few things recentlyā¦mostly solids. What do you do about polyester threads that donāt dyeā¦and buttons that donāt match therafter. Do you ignore or avoid such dying situations?
Thanks.
Do you already know about the stain-lifting magic of OxiClean? I get lots of once-worn-then-stained clothing from garage sales. You can tell itās even been dried in the dryer. But if the stain is organic (something from the body or food), all you have to do it is soak it in a bucket with dissolved oxi in it, and it comes out SPARKLING with zero stain at all. It doesnāt work for stains from cars, chemicals, or fake dyes. But most will come out. Itās wonderful!ā¦*le sigh*
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Wow, you do such a good job!
I am pleasantly surprised! At first, I thought, āWHY? Whatās WRONG with this dress??ā And then, you told usā¦. Stains on such a dress are always a pooper and colour fading makes everything blech. I am super amazed by what a transformation you made with this dress. That wee packet of brown dye you selected did wonders. Wowza.
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