Get all ready to head to the beach! Or the park or Disneyland – or just the grocery store. I used a single seam down the center of the thin strips. Use a leather needle and sew the pieces on, just inside the edges. So trace around all the pieces with a disappearing ink pen – that way you can tell where they should be as you sew. Now you’re not going to be able to fuse your leather to the bag and it’s going to shift around as you sew. I cut these out of leather scraps that I picked up – you know those bags that have all sorts of little shapes and color leather in them? Those are perfect here. But if you want to add your leather arrows, cut out your leather pieces in the shapes you want and place them on the bag. You can totally stop there and have an awesome bag to carry anywhere. Here’s a shot of the back side so you can see the color blended well on that side too: This will get the last bit of dye out and set everything.Įek. Throw the bag in the washer (alone) and dry it. The instructions say 6-8 but I didn’t want my bag super dark, so I rinsed it in cold water after about 4 hours. The squeeze bottles make it really easy to add color exactly where you want it. Using a foam brush, brush up the dye a little so that you can blend it with the next color.Īdd on your next color, brushing the bottom into the dark color and brushing it up so it will blend with the last color.Īdd in your last color. Add enough that the dye completely soaks through the bag. Start with the darkest color and add that to the bottom third of the bag. Wet the bag first so that the color is easier to blend. Follow the instructions on the kit to add water to the squeeze bottles. So to make your own, start by laying out some plastic bags so you don’t get dye everywhere. It’s a completely lined bag, and it even has a pocket! I also found this new Tulip One Step kit. I headed down to Jo-Ann’s to pick up supplies – I found this cool hobo bag all ready for dying. That way either me or my daughter could use it! I wanted to go for a more ombre look in shades of blue and green – and I decided to dress it up with some sweet leather arrows instead of a monogram. I found this cute dyed tote bag at Jo-Ann’s – and had so much fun creating my own version for our new Ombre Dyed Beach Tote Bag! All we need is something big enough for a water bottle, sun screen, and a book. So we (my daughter and I) are always on the look out for cute bags we can throw a few things into for our quick trips. Run down for a picnic dinner, go boogie board for a couple of hours, then head home. Living so close to the beach rather than do the whole “pack up the house and move in for the day” sort of trips, we like to do shorter trips more often.
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