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Show MAKE IT 1 YOURS t- ji By ELLEN APPEL ! Copley News Service It's easy to give T-shirts, Sweatshirts, or any cotton fashions a fun, camouflage ituk by using a simple flatter-dye technique. All you need are inexpensive lyes from the supermarket. supermar-ket. : The camouflage look is a I wonderful way to brighten Wed garments. It is also it ideal way to hide spots id stains. t Spatter-dyeing is a sim-fle sim-fle technique that breaks many of the rules of traditional tradi-tional dyeing. There's no M to submerge clothes Nye baths and stir them endlessly. Since uneven tolors are desirable for the famouflage look, very lit-?e lit-?e attention is necessary. In spatter-dyeing, after i the first dye bath, you liter- spatter additional col-onto col-onto the garment. For j ) imgle camouflage look, ;ns and greens are pest, J 5 for best results in home ieing, use 100 percent cot-?n cot-?n fabrics. If cotton blends used, the resulting col-p col-p will be lighter than you might expect. If you're a home sewer, you can start with cotton yardage. No matter how you do it, camouflage dyeing is easy and fun to do. Here are directions: di-rections: MATERIALS: Cotton T-shirts, T-shirts, shirts, slacks, or fabric fab-ric yardage; sprinkler bottle; bot-tle; three colors of dye. Suggested colors are Rit brand Avocado, Cocoa Brown and Dark Green in powder or liquid form. Note: To dye fabric yardage, cut fabric into pieces prior to dyeing. To allow for shrinkage, cut each piece slightly larger than the pattern indicates. FIRST DYE BATH: 1. Using Avocado dye, follow directions on package for the basics, but make the following changes: 2. Test colors in an inconspicuous place before dyeing entire item. 3. Do not pre-wet fabric. fab-ric. 4. Don't be concerned about placing entire item in the dye bath at the same time. Uneven colors are desirable for the camouflage camou-flage look. 5. Let fabric dry completely. FIRST SPATTER DYE: 1. Place item in a large Camouflage your clothes container. 2. For liquid dyes, mix equal parts of container. 2. For liquid dyes, mix equal parts of Cocoa Brown and hot water in a sprinkler bottle. 3. For powdered dyes, dissolve dis-solve one package of Cocoa Brown in a pint of hot water. Then mix equal parts of dye and hot water in a sprinkler bottle. 4. Sprinkle surface of fabric at random with dye. 5. Let fabric dry. SECOND SPATTER DYE: 1. Mix Dark Green dye in a sprinkler bottle as indicated above. 3. Sprinkle surface of fabric at random ran-dom with dye. 3. Let fabric dry. FINISHING: 1. Rinse item in cool running water to remove excess dye. 2. Dry in automatic dryer or hang on a line away from sunlight. 3. Since the camouflage cam-ouflage effect fades with each washing, revitalize your garment by squirting on extra dye from time to time. PS. The Rit company offers of-fers a wonderful free booklet book-let that contains a variety of dye techniques. To receive the booklet, just send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Ellen Appel, your newspaper's name, Box 1144, Laguna Beach, CA 92652 |