Willow ,'Get It Done'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Jilli avers that dying things black doesn't really get them black enough. Though I expect that may be things which were previously another color.
From my limited experience, dying blue denim still leaves some of the blue visible, so you end up with very dark blue. Dying black or gray (or grey) seems to be fine.
If you called your doctor and begged for her/him to call in a Flexeril scrip
Chatty!co-worker gave me a Voltaren (it sounds like a Battlebot, doesn't it? the generic is dronabinol, and it's just an Rx analgesic), and it seems to have beaten back most of the pain. Only now I'm having weird flashbacks to when my back was so injured right before my surgery, because it's the same time of year, same weather, and now I'm all kind of loopy on painkillers. Freaky. I keep trying to not react from the atavistic sense-memory part of my brain.
The success of dying depends upon the quality of the fabric and also of the dye. Rit dyes were always disappointing to me and their black = sorta gray. I've had better luck with the Procion dyes. Cotton and wool will soak up color, and it might set. Worn fabrics can shed all applied colors in the wash. Polyester and acetate will probably be unchanged by a dye bath.
Jilli avers that dying things black doesn't really get them black enough. Though I expect that may be things which were previously another color. Not sure how it would work on already black jeans.
Things that were already black and just need to be rescued from their faded state take black dye very well. I second Katerina Bee's comments about RIT, and the superiority of Procion. (This reminds me, I must stir the silk skirt I have soaking in a sealed dye bath. It's only been there a week or so ...)
Yay juliana!
I tried these on yesterday, but they didn't have my size. Also, I don't need them. Really.
I can't find the pair there that I really thought I needed, which they also didn't have in my size. I did end up with these, though.
I tried these on yesterday
Those are hot.
I need a pair of low-heeled pointy black ankle boots. "Need" in the sense that I don't currently own a pair.
[These are very cute, albeit not pointy.]
Heh. One of the med school interviewees stuck her head in the door just as I was clicking on ita's link, and she went completely swoony over the boots.
Ankle boots confuse me. I used to wear them all the time, and now they make me freeze when I have to coordinate. Well, except for my pair something like these (with less metal plating)--those go with whatever the hell they want to.