Months and months ago, when it was barely fall, I bought this skirt for ten cents. Sure, it was a color I hardly ever wear (if that unbleached muslin oatmeal-y color is actually considered a color) and it was a size 1x, and stained, but I thought I would dye it brown and have a nice ankle length skirt for the winter.
Then it sat in a box for a long time, and I changed my mind. First, brown seemed very boring. And then the length turned out to be a not very flattering one on me.
So today I dyed it red, and monkeyed around with length and width, and here it is:
You know, I dyed a jean jacket bright purple in junior high (I thought it was cool and wore it to shreds, but I only remember getting one compliment on it), and I remember the process being more involved and taking more time than this did. It must have been because of my age that it seemed so arduous.
While I was dyeing things, I made a little tie dye too, to use in my quilt:
It's only about 9 inches square. Since I like the way it turned out, I wish I'd done more, but it was a sort of a spur of the moment experiment.
2 comments:
I do have a tiered skirt like that in brown! It's not boring, but it IS too big and unflattering. Plus, too lightweight for winter and not right for tights. Yours looks a bit more a-line and red is much better for summer.
Very nice job on the dyeing!
I think I like the red better then the brown, and it's much more interesting now then the pic before.
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