Dyeing cross stitch fabric

Frizzle12

These are my first attempts at dyeing my own fabric. With the grey piece I have a large full coverage chart that I am going to start that is very dark, mostly black and navy blue. I was afraid the white fabric would show thru too much and I didnt want my fabric black as I thought it would be harder to stitch on. I am very happy with the soft grey I ended up with.

For the ice dyed fabric I just wanted to play around and see what happened. I used 2 powdered dyes, yellow and tan. I never thought I would see all the different colors that I got. It looks a little different on each side. I will do this again with different colors. One thing I learned is to sew the edges first. It frayed a bit when I washed it but not enough to be a problem.

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After

Ice dye

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Back

Nebula

Very nice! Thanks for sharing!

cutiepie

I like it, looks good. What colors will you be using?

karriboo

Very nice
Thank you for sharing

potap102

        Thank you very much!

papriska

Very Nice work ! Thanks for sharing

conny

very nice :)

sab

oh !!!! bizarre !!!!!!

antje

well done!

eddelweisse

Wow, I love to cross stitch and have done so for years but I have never been brave enough to try dying the fabric!  You have really given me new ideas!  Thank you!

maianh

Its amazing!