I’ve been hard at working changing out the colors in my living room. I’m halfway through the biggest project, sewing a slipcover for my hubby’s favorite chair, but I did get my chaise slipcover dyed – I was quite worried as I had to come up with a color combination that would overdye the new tan slipcover I purchased – Ikea no longer makes this chaise, so I couldn’t buy a new white slipcover. 
I found a tan cotton one on Ebay that was this color:
I am happy to report that the orange color that I dyed the slipcover combined really well with the tan, and it’s a lovely persimmon color. I had to snap a few pix to show you:
I low-water immersion dyed these, so it’s definitely got some mottling going on – which is what I wanted. The lighting was crazy, but I tried to get a couple pix of the curtains I dyed as well:
I’ll try to get some better pix when the whole room is done. A few years ago I published a tutorial on how to dye a slipcover at a blog that’s no longer on the internet – would anyone be interested in me re-publishing it here?
Once I get the chair slipcover done, I’ll be making pillows with this deelicious linen I dyed this weekend:
But first…the boys and I are off to San Diego for a day and a half – Hubby is there for a conference, so we’re going to join him for a quick getaway!
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yummmmmie!!!! you had quite the success…love the colors
Love that beautiful red and the curtains are spectacular!
Yes please, I would love you to repost how you dyed the slipcovers. I have a couple of chairs from Ikea and want to dye the covers for them.
Love how the slip cover came out. Please do repost how to do it.
That slip cover turned out really well and the curtains look great. Hope you all have a wonderful time in San Diego.
PS might be a good idea to keep the old slip cover to use as a pattern for the next one since it will be harder to get a new one in any colour by the time you’ll need one! I’m sure you’ve already thought of that! 😉
are you kidding me?! what can’t you dye? this is amazing!