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  Dyeing cross stitch fabric
Posted on Tuesday, October 18 @ 08:15:57 EDT by admin
 
 
  Dyeing A different method of "dyeing" cross stitch fabric:

Cross stitch fabric is so heavily starched that you can paint or dip almost anything on it and heat it up in the microwave. This "melts" the starch, embedding the color molecules.

All caveats/precautions apply (see below) but I spent an amount of time testing this method. I made standard dye baths (Kool-aid, Procion, Rit) and painted these on water wetted wrung out cross stitch fabric including linen, evenweaves and aida. I then put the fabric in a folded over plastic bag and microwaved it for about a minute - a fat quarter. I let it cool and then rinsed it lightly under cold water to see what would happen.

Results were WYSIWYG - no color ran off the fabric at standard dye bath strengths. As I wasn't using any mordant I probably didn't need to rinse it at all out of the microwave.

Tea though is a natural dye and will fade over time if it's not mordanted. You're better off using Rit which is lightfast and readily available. This is presupposing that you aren't going to wash this fabric, or that at the least you're just going to rinse it lightly under cold water and mild soap after stitching as you would expect you can wash off this starch and the color with it.

I do not dye this way - but it's a method though that would get good results if you were doing a piece or two for your own use or wanted to paint a fabric. All of these methods are not very lightfast!

A more lightfast possibility:
I have used a similar method with good results after scouring the fabric. I have painted a sunburst in the middle of a fabric, or green across the bottom and blue across the top. Once I did a lovely piece all counted out with brown across the bottom for sand, blue green through the middle for a sea and blue with areas left white across the top for the sky and clouds. I coated these with Afterfix (Dharma product) according to product directions to set them.

Link to Afterfix

 
 
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