Well, I excitedly signed up to the campaign thinking dreams of turning all the girls scrappy clothes a beautiful pink colour. If they'd have offered yellow I would try and dye all Molly's school uniform to make it look less 3rd generation hand-me-downs (which most of it is! The joys of being the smallest). But I got pink! My girls love Pink.
It arrived and I got scared! I might love pink, but I love my kitchen and the rest of the families wardrobe a little bit more. I started to have a mini panic attack and visions of EVERYTHING in the whole house turning pink (I suppose it was an optimistic view at the same time. I didn't think it wasn't going to work). So I trod very gently and actually only took one size 18 month shirt and one age 2 t-shirt.
Reading the instructions, I realised my dye could cope with a LOT more than I was offering, but I really couldn't find anything else that I wanted to turn pink at that time. So I used just half the quantity of dye from the pack and salt that was to be added.
Put the lot in the washing machine, and pretty much sat watching it for an hour and 25 minutes. I was very VERY scared. "Mummy, look the washing machine is pink too" said Molly. That didn't help!
The cycle finished and in panic I took the clothes out and put the washing machine on a rinse cycle on its own. Then reading the instructions properly I realised I was meant to wash the clothes through again, so I had to wait, but during that wait I did look and the clothes were VERY pink. A great fuchsia colour, very bold and colourful. I liked what I saw.
Finally put the washing machine on a 3rd wash, this time with the tops back in it, and all looked normal again.
To be on the safe side though, the next wash I did was a black wash. At least that way I wasn't going to turn all James pants pink (not that i've not accidentally done that before with a new red outfit in the mix).
So I'm very happy with the way the girls tops have turned out - check out this photo. We love bold colours!
BUT - i'm now too scared to put the girls in them! What if the colours all run if it rains or they get sweaty. What if their skin is dyed pink and I can never wash it off?
What if they are fine on, but when I come to wash them again it does turn everything else Pink?
So, we are at a cross roads. I will eventually put the girls in their new tops but maybe when its a bit colder and I can put vests on underneath. I will update again when I've done this, and in the meantime have a think about what I might want to dye black! I'm also thinking me and dyes is not a good combination. A mixture of fear, excitement and the what if? factor for dyeing so many different things.....
In summary, if I had to give Dylan a mark out of ten. For dye quality it would have to be a good 9 (I don't give out tens very easily) but then as i've only done half the task this may change in the future. Watch this space!!
P.S. No cake this week! Will make some tomorrow
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