Sunday, August 29, 2010

Coffee Fabric Dye

I found this coffee fabric dye tutorial by One Cheap B*tch and decided to try it out!


First, bring 4 cups of water to a boil. Then add 1 cup of instant coffee and 3 Tbsp Vanilla. Allow to cool completely.


Place your fabric in the coffee mixture and make sure all of it is soaked. Wring out the excess liquid.


Place on a cookie sheet and bake at 250 degrees for about 5 minutes, turning it over at least once.

For the first one, I didn't get rid of any of the wrinkles from wringing it out. I also didn't flip it at all. The top is a little lighter:


And the bottom has these awesome dark lines along the wrinkles:


On the second one, I flipped in half way through and the wrinkles are slightly defined.


For this last one, I pulled on the fabric before baking it to get most of the wrinkles out and flipped it about every 1 minute while it was baking.


I'm really happy with how all of them turned out and I can't wait to get crafting!

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