Finished!

Here is the finished bag and the stitching for the seems. Yes I really wanted those colors for the edges. Sadly you can only see them at the knot at the top.

This style of bag is made via furoshiki that Japanese knot wrap way of using a single piece of cloth to do so much.

Washed and dried

The magenta for the barcode looking one did come out some, but not by much. Gotta wait a little longer to see about cleaning up the edges.

Partial recovery

I, sort of, managed to salvage the 2nd image I'm bleaching. It doesn't have the lighter spots the first one had but I'm going to mix a new bleach/alginate batch up tomorrow and try one more time for this one.

I'm also going to make a stencil for the first side and see if I can't clean that up any.

I'll keep you all posted~

...not that there is anyone really watching, but I can pretend, can't I? ^_^;

failed attempt

So, leaving a bleach and sodium alginate mix sit all week is not a bad idea. it all breaks down and the bleach won't bleach anything. -.-x I'm annoyed with myself because I should have known when the alginate i was adding back into it to thicken it back up wasn't turning white.

SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIRST CLUE!!!!!!

*face palms*

So, NOT washing the mess out before I painted the mix with active bleach back onto the cloth was…not stupid, but a waist of time. It did bleach out a little bit, but the tension in the cloth was gone and it only turned the cloth a VERY dark rusty red color. -.-

It's in the washing machine now on a quick was cycle and then it'll be in the dryer and I'll be trying it again. I know I won't get the new stencil on to perfectly match, but I'm going to try. The upside to it not matching perfectly is that the first try might be too dark to be seen OR when I dye it the colors I'll be painting over it you really won't be able to see then.

no photo of my failure. =/

Crafting project

Using a tutorial I found at capecodartsrudio.com for bleaching fabric I started on the 2 images I want to put on a square of fabric so I can make a furoshiki bag. I'll be using the bag for when I go to anime central in Chicago in April.

The tutorial said to use 1 tbs of bleach and sodium alginate but my mix has 1 tbs of the alginate and 16 tbs of bleach. I didn't want to use more but I think I should have because it was supposed to become a cream but mine was more paste like. I think when I do the 2nd part of it I'll add in some more bleach, but I'm still hesitant to do it because it feels like a lot of bleach.

On the up side the alginate cut the fumes of the bleach out almost entirely. A big plus.

My first try turned out a bit blotchy, but since it was my first try ever I can live with that. I'm going to try a slightly different method for when I do more next weekend.

I have been taking photos as I go, though I didn't get a photo of when I rinsed the bleach off because u didn't want to accidentally drop my phone into the bath tub with the water running. ^_^;

More to come on this project later~!!