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Tutorial: Bleach and dye a pair of jeans

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Tutorial: Bleach and dye a pair of jeans

Tutorial: Bleach and dye a pair of jeans

Ren from The Inspired Wren shows how she used fabric dye to rescue a pair of jeans that she had spilled bleach on.  She bleached them even more, removing all of the denim color and then dyed them to a fun color.  Marsala, to be exact, which happens to be Pantone’s color of the year.  I think I might need to try this on a few pairs of my daughter’s jeans. (She has a bad habit of wiping her dirty hands on the front of the jeans.  Anyone else’s kid do this?)  Even if your jeans aren’t damaged, this would be a fun way to give them an update.

Click below to go to her tutorial:

Bleach & Dye Denim, by The Inspired Wren

[photo from The Inspired Wren]

Comments

  1. Thanks for great link, very useful tutorial. Before this I found tutorial only how to bleach but this is better way how to bleach jeans and color them.

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