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[Master Milano]

OTC, did you use fabric paint when you were spraypainting?

Oh wait you probably don't give a **** about the cardigan haha

 

[TonicAura]

i also ordered otter wax and waxed 3 pairs of jeans of my jeans with no problems. i also skipped the blow dryer step.
maybe you just suck at life?
you are right about the smell though. i had numerous people ask me why i smelled like pine-sol.

How many bars of wax did you go through? I'm about 1/5 or even less of the way to waxing my jeans and I've used probably around 1/4 of the bar.

 

[otc]



OTC, did you use fabric paint when you were spraypainting?
Oh wait you probably don't give a **** about the cardigan haha

just spray paint. It actually turned out quite well and (with a little more care to avoid overspray) I would consider doing something like it on clothes I would actually wear.

As long as you spray in short bursts and don't get it on too thick, the spray paint is flexible and soft. I think it would only work this well on this density of knits...woven fabrics would require too thick of an application to look good and looser knits wouldn't get very defined lines from the edge of the stencil.

 

[noob in 89]

With a darker knit, you could use a spritzer of bleach/water solution, rather than spray paint. A ghostly fair isle could be pretty cool (provided you're willing to put in the work making the stencils, I guess).

 

[Big Pun]

i also ordered otter wax and waxed 3 pairs of jeans of my jeans with no problems. i also skipped the blow dryer step.

maybe you just suck at life?

you are right about the smell though. i had numerous people ask me why i smelled like pine-sol.

How many bars of wax did you go through? I'm about 1/5 or even less of the way to waxing my jeans and I've used probably around 1/4 of the bar.

 

3/4 bar for full coat for me, goes pretty quick.

 

[Big Pun]

Ok, so I washed my failure jawnz, and tried it again. Much better results now that I had time, no clumps. No need for hair dryer nonsense. I did a subtle waxing down the legs getting heavier towards the hems. Smell is less overpowering now. Still, I wouldn't want a jacket waxed in this gunk.



Close-up:

 

[thatoneguy]

i want to do this but the smell is holding me back

 

[Synthese]



just spray paint. It actually turned out quite well and (with a little more care to avoid overspray) I would consider doing something like it on clothes I would actually wear.
As long as you spray in short bursts and don't get it on too thick, the spray paint is flexible and soft. I think it would only work this well on this density of knits...woven fabrics would require too thick of an application to look good and looser knits wouldn't get very defined lines from the edge of the stencil.

I spraypainted a lot of shirts while in high school, and I can vouch for this - a design on a t-shirt, for example, will last quite a long time. So feel free to make your own graphic tees, or whatever.

 

[steviecakes]

Anyone have experience dyeing a wool sweater?
Was helping my grandmother reorganize and came across this sweater that she gave to me since it hasn't fit her in years

I want to dye it a deep red. Or purple. Or mix the two and see what happens.

Edit: Purple.
My main concern is how hot the water should be so that the fibers absorb the dye but don't felt and shrink.

And here's more mediocre DIY stuff I've done to pass the time:

Bleached t shirt for a friend.

Black captoes with gold painted midsoles.

 

[Synthese]

My first, and probably last, attempt at jewelry-making:

A necklace, pour une fille, made of sea-glass she collected whilst we cavorted 'mongst the waves gyre'd and gimble'd in the wabe:

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

 

[wootx]

Very nice.

IMHO it could also work with fewer pieces (i.e. one or two)... That thing must be kind of heavy, isn't it?

 

[Synthese]

No, it's pretty small. She likes oversized stuff, too, so I think she;ll like that it's kind of a handful of them instead of, say, one pendant.

 

[ghdvfddzgzdzg]

loving "black jazz santa" on the previous page

 

[wootx]

Haha great. I don't know why, but I imagined them being, like, enormous -- which is stupid lol

 

[snake]

So a few days ago I decided that I was sick of the color on my wjk leather shirt and decided to play with it. Bought a few cans of specialty leather spray paint and went at it. The end result was decent but it wasn't very uniform and the leather felt rubbery afterwards. So I threw it away for the garbageman to pick up. The end. (0)