I wanted to make some shoes for myself to match my husband’s and to use up the rest of the dye. Please see the previous post for the instructions and list of supplies.
Tulip dye says it is best within 24 hours. My shoes were delivered a day late from Amazon so my dye had been mixed for 48 hours. There were two differences in the way I made my shoes compared to my husband’s. First, instead of the Tulip soda ash, I used washing soda. Washing soda takes waaaay more than soda ash. Instead of the little packet, I used 4 cups in 1 tub. Luckily both of my shoes fit in one tub. I also put a shirt in there to soak after my shoes were done so I could get more use out of that washing soda.
Difference number two is that I ran out of purple. On my husband’s shoes, I followed a tutorial that used the blues, then pink, then purple was on top as the primary color. Since I only had a tiny bit left, and I wanted a bit more blue to show through on mine, I did light blue, then pink, then purple, then dark blue. I ran out of purple after one tub and mixed more water to get a tiny bit into the other tub. Because of that, I put more dark blue on top as the final color than I had planned. I may have also used less water in my shaving cream mixture as I wasn’t doing high tops this time.
you can already tell how more marbleized and blue they look as compared to the other pair. I did not need to use as much shaving cream as I did on his as they were not high tops.
This time I got a picture of the washing machine to show why you wash with Synthrapol after rinsing. See the little bit of dye that still comes out?
These are how my shoes came out after those changes. More blue and marbled. Fox examined them and approved.
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