Tea Dying Old Onesies

Baby girl is destined to wear more than her fair share of hand-me-downs. But instead of making her wear them all dingy and sad I wanted to make them over into something I would actually want to put her in.  I decided that the best and most inexpensive solution would be tea dye. 

Tea dying is easy.. Here is how to:

1. Get your garment wet. {I just ran mine under some warm water and then wrung out the excess.}

2. Submerge your garment in a warm tea. {I just boiled water in a pot on the stove, added several Lipton tea packets, let simmer until my water turned a nice deep shade of brown and then let it cool down before adding the clothing.}

3. Let your garment sit until you get the color you desire. {Actually I let mine get a little darker to compensate for the rinse to follow.}

4. Rinse your garment until the water runs clear.

5. Dry in the drier to set the color.

Once I was finished with that process I added a rosette and some beads that I had laying around the house and made a matching rosette head band.

It was a simple, old fashioned project but I kind of love it. {And I always like the idea of giving something old new life again.}

OXOX,
Aimee