overdue update...

so I said that I'd post a blog about the rainbow shorts when I actually got to work on them.

I'd fully meant to do more blogs throughout the process to show progress pictures and what not, but if you follow me on flickr I had been posting stuff there (and on instagram within the last couple days 'cause I got my fancy new droid xD)

I went into it thinking it was going to be super simple, but I also didn't originally plan to sew 29 pairs of shorts xD

if you read the last blog you'll already know some of this, but whatever.

only 23 of those 29 pairs got bleached and dyed, while I left the 6 extra pairs as the light denim color that they were to begin with and just distressed them.

I spent about 15 hours the first day cutting out the pieces for and sewing all 29 pairs.

the next day I spent about 8 hours doing as much distressing as I possibly could.

the day after that I finished with the distressing and rinsed/dried them all to make the frayed bits look better and more actually worn.

the next day I got started with the bleaching which took something like 4-5 hours 'cause for whatever reason the bleach I bought sucks and just didn't seem to want to take the color out of the denim in a timely manner.

that night after I'd finished with the bleaching and had given them some time to dry part of the way I applied the dye to all of the shorts and let them sit and dry for nearly 48 hours before I rinsed and washed them.

it was kind of more work than I'd figured, but I'm really happy with how they turned out in the end 'cause the parts where I thought the colors looked really muddy actually don't look bad after they were washed since you can't really see where each color set when they're still covered in dye, so in some of the places where I thought too many colors mixed it wasn't actually bad because not all of the colors set where they bled.

I'm hoping to get pictures taken of all the pairs that will be for sale within the next couple days 'cause I know some people are waiting for them to be available already, it's just going to take a bit since I have to take pictures of the front and back of every pair since they're all different.

I'm also hoping to get an SD size pattern worked out 'cause some people expressed interest in them, and I don't generally like to sew fitted  things for dolls that I don't have in house; but I think if I can get a friend to help me with the measurements I'd need, and trying on a test pair or two then I can manage it.

anyway...

enough babbling, here are some shots of the finished shorts!

this was when the dye was still wet.

lena wearing the first pair that I decided I was for sure keeping. 

instagram spam of a bunch of the finished pairs.

some of those pictured will be for sale, but some are pairs that I'm keeping for myself.

and I'm eleanoranne on instagram by the way if you happen to want to follow me on there ^_^