Revitalizing a blouse with fabric dye

I am a devoted mender.  Breathing new life into old clothes makes me feel so industrious. Usually, this involves something like replacing buttons or fixing straps, but when tragedy struck a white blouse I loved, a little more creativity was required.   

I had an embroidered linen top with white on white embroidery.  Like anything linen, it wrinkles.  I started ironing it before I realized that it's not meant to be ironed...and the embroidery started burning and turning brown! 

Oh dear.  After I got over my disappointment, I thought that perhaps this lovely blouse could be revitalized by dying it a dark color to cover up the brown, so I headed to the hardware store for some RIT black dye. 

Everything came out even better than I could have hoped -- the linen absorbed more of the dye than the embroidery did, so now the embroidery stands out beautifully.

I like it even more than I did in white! 

Comments

[Lindy Parker]

This is awesome.