When I was getting ideas for my booth for the street fair I'm doing this weekend I thought of a way to make my plain clothes pins look fun. Enter Dye here {and fun rainbow fingers--wear gloves!}
I only had one pack of dye, and did want multiple colors. So I started with this blue dye. I did it to directions on the packet. 1: Clothes pins & Dye {lots of towels....gloves if you don't want colored fingers}2: Put the clothes pins in a pot to check to make sure they'll be covered by the dye bath.3: Make dye bath {in this case it was water, salt and dye packet--the dye splattered all over me, my hand, the stove when I put it in...be careful}4: Let soak until they are too dark {remember, they'll lighten up as they dry!} I did what the pack said, like 20 minutes or something. Drain off water, DO NOT RINSE.5: Lay out the clothes pins to dry. THEY WILL GET LIGHTER. DO NOT WORRY! {See the pins in picture 5 are the same teal pins in the big picture-- much lighter!
Here are the wet clothes pins. If you rinse them you'll take dye off of them. Don't do that okay?Also, I only had 1 pack of dye, but I really really wanted more colors. I didn't want to spend money on more dye. So I tried the food coloring trick {and I'm lame and didn't get any pictures that day}.
The food coloring pins {yellow, orange, and red} were made by mixing water and vinegar and food coloring in a pot. I then poured the warm mixture over the clothes pins that were laid out on various bowls. Make sure they're completely submerged.
This is what happened to the ones with vinegar. The vinegar oxidized the metal clip part. So the look is up to you. If you like that nice shiny look go with clothes dye packets. If you like the "hey I'm vintage" look go with the food coloring trick.
What do you think? Which do you like better?
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