Experimenting with fabric dyes 2 piece suit

I recently had Spair time on my hands to do some experimenting and tailoring so with this Spair time I decided to experiment with fabric dyes! This was really interesting and exciting cause I didn't know what the final result would be  that I would get out of this experiment luckily I got a unusual 2 peice suit that I love not only because it's unique and no one else has it but because my experiment turned out so well the 2 peice suit was shorts and a jacket that I will post up shortly...

Firstly I got soft white dutches satin this worked really well with the dyes and give it that more expensive professional look with the silk look on the fabric. Once I had the fabric I decided what I wanted to make out of this and it was decided shorts and jacket, using my patterns of basic shorts and jacket I cut these out leaving me with just the pattern peices and plain material.

The next step was using the fabric dyes and testing on a sample peice of material all of the different dyes I was able to use I came to the chose of yellows oranges blues and torques. However I didn't just look at the dyes to be able to see the actual colors I wanted to use or even put them just on the material and decide I had to apply heat for their original colour to come up the colours I choose went onto the sample material as purples and browns that then turned into these really nice bright colours I decided to use once I had used the heat press.

Using the heat press... I turned it on and left it to heat up for 10 minuets I then placed a peice of paper big enough to cover my sample material and placed the sample on top of the paper to then place another peice of paper ontop of that.(this keeps the sample safe and avoids the material burning or steaming.)

Once I had decided on the fabric dyes I was going to use in this experiment I began to dye my shorts alls I needed for this was...

• paintbrush

•fabric dyes 

•water spray 

I picked up my first pattern and wet it with the water sprays this helped the fabric adapt to the material then using a paint brush I began to make my pattern using the fabric dyes I decided I just wanted a block print of the colours but I wanted the affect of the colours running into each other. Once I had painted the fabric dyes on over the sink surface I lifted the material up and let the dyes and water run this created a really nice affect on my suit. Then I did the same process as i used on my sample peice and applied a piece of paper big enough to sit under the pattern and on top of the pattern and I left this under the heat press till the time ran out. I continued this process throughout the pattern dying.

Once all my patterns where dyed I started to put the suit together here is a picture of how my suit turned out!!!!

  

I also added light blue pom poms to the suit... I loved doing this experiment can't wait to try it again 🎨📚✂️✏️📌📝