I love when you people give me suggestions!

[cupcake_goth]

Wow, the fabric dying post brought you people out with opinions. (Which is fantastic, by the way!) The test swatches I tea-dyed last night turned a lovely antique white/pale ivory. I am going to try a test swatch with hibiscus tea, because I'm betting THAT will give me a super pale pinkish-white, which might be even BETTER than ivory.

Also in the comments, you lovely peoples gave me all sorts of crafty project ideas, including untouched_sugar talking about paper roses made from the pages of old books (which means I have even MORE reasons to scour the thrift stores for used and battered copies of Alice In Wonderland, Dracula, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, oh dear), and sillycecelia suggesting that I write lines of poetry in the white stripes of the fabric once the skirt is made. (I would probably copy text from Something Wicked This Way Comes or "Homecoming", just because.)

Of course, talking about making skirts from sheets sent me straight to eBay, where I went browsing for pink striped sheets. I really like these Nicole Miller pink striped ones (with ruffles!). (clicky-link!) I'd use the fabric from them for the tiered ruffles for the back panel of the skirt, the front panel, and the ruffled hem. (The other parts of the skirt body would be black.)

Oh deary deary me, projects. Wheeee!

Comments

[ms-tate.livejournal.com]

Such lovely ideas. Looking forward to seeing lots of pretty photos!

[tinkerbell86ca.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, those sheets are SO pretty! I like the thinner stripes, and the way you described the skirt you would make from them? Pure lovelyness!

You will take pictures of the tea skirt when done, right?

[untouched-sugar.livejournal.com]

*gasp* An honorable mention AND a clicky-link to stripey bedsheets???

Best. Post EVER!

Late to the tea party

[cherry-faery.livejournal.com]

But I bring clicky link greatness so hopefully you'll forgive me. :)

I figured that if you or the lovely lady who suggest making the paper roses were interested/in need of a guide for how to make your flowers, this is a well laid out and pic heavy tutorial that may help you (http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=306807.0). These roses are made out of coffee filters but I don't see why you couldn't do the same thing with the pages of a book provided they were in decent enough shape. There is also a video courtesy of Martha Stewart of the lady who started making these things to give you an idea of how to do that too.

Hopefully this helps someone out there who might want to give this a try. I know I'm going to give it a shot for my sister's wedding this coming spring so if anyone gets super frustrated with this stuff, know that I'm suffering with you. :D

Happy Crafting!

[sirriamnis.livejournal.com]

Do you want to borrow my copy of Adam Ant Live at the Bloomsbury?

[tiatsuchi.livejournal.com]

Oooh. Light pink roses on a natural tea-dye fabric would be amazing, alternating with a solid darker-colored stripe. I wish I had all the screenprinting stuff now! As soon as I can get the materials you are at the top of my list to make fabrics for!

[corvidaen.livejournal.com]

Those sheets are great.
I especially like the poetry idea.

Photos are a must.

[kibarika.livejournal.com]

Speaking of projects, I wore my top hat with the little lace caplet underneath yesterday and it totally worked to keep it from sliding around on my head. (I didn't get a picture but I will next time. I like to have a whole outfit for the effect and I'm still growing into my gothiness so I'm only okay wearing non-corporate goth "out," not to work or class yet.)

I made the cap using Caron Simply Soft black yarn with this pattern (http://www.yarncat.com/Capulet_Caplet.html).