No- I'm not going blonde (although sometimes I think my brain is..)
I spent some time last weekend at the Creative Fibres group stamping bleach onto velvet. Technically known as discharge dying as you are actually removing the dye. The results are unpredictable as different dyes have different colour components.
We discovered that not all velvets are equal and some didn't work at all.
The best fabric turned out to be Jo's old velour "Tracky Daks" which were well washed and this probably helped. I am now regretting having given my mothers old velours to the Op shop.
I used a lovely little apple cut in half as one of my stamps and it worked out really well.
I also carved champagne corks into shapes for other stamps. Glad to find a use for this object that somehow seems to breed in our household!!
Now I need to start embroidering and embellishing the fabrics - that should be really fun.
