For your Wednesday

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So we got these really nice grass green Dupioni silk placemats from my mother in law, right.

Unfortunately, being bright green, and silk, they got stained very quickly, and when I washed them the silk top shrunk, while the cotton bottom did not.
~Yeah I know you dry clean dupioni silk, but I do not dry clean table linens. Sorry. Nope.~
And the stains didn't even come out.
But, they were still a nice color silk, and, silk is always nice....
So I kept them around for a couple years to be parted.

Until one fair day I decided to just tie dye them and use them as they were made, as placemats again.

They had been wadded up in the corner of my fabric closet for a while, so an ironing was necessary....



I folded them into fans, and then tied them off with twine.



Then I threw them into a black dye bath with some other items I was also tie dying (I also did some fabric napkins, and a silk dress)

~After drying~



And since the top layer and bottom were still different sizes, and I hate it when place mats bag open like an old pillowcase, I discretely top stitched along the dye lines. Green one way, black another.

They should last a few more years now, and one less thing knocking around in my 'part out' pile.



I like em better this way to be honest.
They have a rustic bamboo feel to them, which goes really well with my Asian themed dinner area.
Plus, no stains......

Ok, bye now!