Posted on Feb 1st 2016
Shaving Cream Fabric Dying
Cabin Fever Quilters
July 2005
This is a fun way to make your fabrics and t-shirts come alive with color!
Shaving cream is your medium and base for the dye.
Spray it (the shaving cream) on your table (covered in a plastic cover) the size of your piece of fabric and about 2 inches thick and smoothed out with a spatula or your hand (glove covered).
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Tips
You can use the same shaving cream/dye pile for more than one piece of fabric
and you can add more dye to that pile to add more color for more pieces of
fabric. You can mix up the cream and get color bases and add more dye and
swirl for other effects. Change your shaving cream pile to change colors.
The shaving cream pile does last a long time - we got them to last all day.
I am sure - I used Colgate(blue can) but you can not use shaving cream with baby oil in it. The type with aloe was ok but came out of the can different, not as creamy as the shaving cream without aloe. I bought 8 cans of shaving cream and used maybe 2 cans... I only changed my shaving cream once to go from the purple hue to the orange hue.
If your doing this with a group then you can share your pile of cream/color... i.e., if one person is working in yellow and another is working in purple then you can share your dye and not change out your shaving cream to change your color, etc.
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