Teabag Fabric Dying Trial

I often lay used teabags on paper towels to dry when I take them out of the tea cup, and they dye the paper towels all these beautiful shades and colors, depending on whether it's regular or herbal tea. Well, I got the bright idea to try it with white cotton fabric.

 1st try-2 org/spice tea bags, 2 stacked cloths dampened and laid in a pie tin-I kept moving the wet teabags around on the top cloth, letting it absorb into both cloths and the color spread out, leaving a pale pink tint on both cloths. The color is much deeper on a folded paper towel, and much prettier.

2nd try-1 org/spice and 1 lavender lemon teabag, dry cloth, pie tin-I thought maybe it would do better on a dry cloth, so I tried a single layer in the tin and moved the teabags around a little every once in a while, and left them overnight. The lavender lemon teabag barely left a yellowish tint, and the orange spice left a darker pink where it lay overnight, with lighter tints where I had moved it around to start with. 

Not really happy with either result, but I will use them to do stitch meditations on. They will be good for that if they don't keep fading on me, but if they do, they'll still be ok to stitch on. If I want the whole piece dyed, I will boil the teabags and soak the cloth in the hot tea.

This was an experiment, and I tried and learned, so I didn't fail, but I will do some research before I try it again! 😁

Don't be afraid to try and experiment!