Flosstube Tea/ Coffee Dye: Priscilla & Chelsea-The Real Housewives of Cross Stitch

as promised we're doing our coffee tea dyeing tutorial today bear with us I've never added a video and it's kind of hard to have the camera set up over there and trying to do it over here what you'll need to get into scary yeah whatever you're gonna need we use parchment paper you're gonna need a huge pot to flat water in it we have our fabric we just have a yard of each our yard each of monoco again use caution if you're doing this on a different kind of fabric than testing you've tried if you've got a favorite fabric use a little piece to test it don't be using a whole piece just because we've never dyed anything else but even we've Monica you're gonna need black tea bags we use is Lipton and get a bigger box for them at an economical price we use about ten for this pot um my stepdad used to travel a lot to different hotels for his job so he got those he gets to pick up but they're in even our bring I love these we bring him home to me because he wanted me to put him out with my flower beds for the hydrangeas so he would always take the coffee today and bring me home packages of coffee which we used to use and now they just write kinder like tea bags this is instant we just stirred in a pot before we put our stuff okay so what we first do is get the Potter to boiling right so you want to fill the pot up we do it about half way then we put in our tea bags in our coffee and then we put a little bit more water on top so that the fabric is submerged let me just take the teabags out of the package and just throw them in you can throw those in before it boils but the coffee you should probably wait these bags which I think I'll add two of these in there how many do we used to do these like five or six yeah we like our fabric dark so we use a little bit more maybe than you want to you can try the pad not ready for soon so again teabags just building in the outer coffee it comes like in a little bag that you get in a hotel okay I didn't say you're also gonna need some cookie sheets mate put in the oven and we put parchment paper around the cookie sheets while you've got your fabric on Kyrie's and pre-heat your oven to 200 degrees alright there's another one of those coffee bags we're gonna and then we'll add in our instant coffee okay so it is has been brought up to a boil that's just the tea bags and actually a little coffee bag coffee pouch and this is the color of it right now without the instant coffee in it so it's pretty dark and if you're doing smaller pieces of fabric I don't think you need to use the quantities of coffee and tea that we use but since we ditched our yard at a time we use wheat and we want it to be dark we do this so we've got 1/3 of a cup of coffee so it's instant coffee it's like a dollar 98 for this canister which is really economical and it'll last you awhile depending on how much fabric you're using you pour it in you want to make sure that you're using a spoon so you don't rupture any of the teabags because those tea bags won't dissolve this coffee will dissolve the tea is bad when the teabags get ruptured because then your fabric gets covered with all that stuff and we actually don't rinse ours so right so then again we're gonna kind of let this sit for just a couple seconds and then we're gonna add in our fabric okay I've already turned it down to really low because you don't want it boiling when you've got your fabric in it but you want it still hot and then we'll see if the water that we've prepared covers the fabric or if we need to add more you kind of just push it down with the spoon your your house will smell really good through this process too it's really hard to get the angle so sorry you can't see my Thanks okay and then I'm gonna move the camera over and show you so that's only one I've got a and you just kind of wad it up in there you don't fold it or anything just finish it up and the plain water she's adding it will take on the tea and coffee yeah cuz we got a lot of stuff in that mixture right away so you can already see the color of it but you just want to push it down so that it's fully covered and again your oven is on for 200 degrees you've got depending on how much fabric you're doing you're going to need some baking sheets we have to make a department paper and then we use tongs to to pull the fabric in and out of the pot just see if it's dark enough but again watch out for the SI bags don't rupture the tea bags but that's a pain in the butt to get off of there we're gonna add a little bit more water we're gonna let this cook for I cook mine for about a half an hour because I like mine really dark would you see this need to keep checking it it depends I mean different fabrics might be different and you know you just gotta check see how it's all covered in the liquid and we've got our and I'm gonna turn it up temperature on simmer but you don't want it to be like boiling over yeah I worry about that a little bit because of making me making my favorite smaller but it we doesn't get a little bit smaller anyway smaller but not severely okay so we will be back once this has cooked for a little bit longer to see what the color process is okay so this has cooked for about thirty minutes it's been on the stove we like it a little bit darker make sure that you're checking it often to see if you've got it to the right temperature don't sit on the couch and watch floss tube and get carried away and forget about the other ones too we just I said hey mom which project that's fair oh okay so you take our oven is set to 200 degrees and you're gonna be messy you just kind of let it drip a little and then move it onto the baking sheet so I've been tea and coffee dyeing my favorite for a long time and I never knew about putting it in the oven until I read the banas blog where she shows her you got a tea bag stick to that right here she showed her faced and baked video nothing his video I think it's blahh oh blahh sorry blog where she teaches you how to do that but anyway we she started by I like dabbing the wet tea bagging I was a that was her first one where she started off I took like 10 years ago if you want a light effect you can do that just get a teabag wet and place it all over when I'm at home I actually used ice tea bags from Lipton as well because they're bigger and I can use less of them I'm trying to use up all my Lipton little tea bags because I don't drink Lipton anymore from a Tazo tea okay so now this is where sorry my I didn't turn off my notifications for Instagram my the modeling comes in so this fabric is very hot but what you're going to need to do is you could let it cool down through it doesn't have to go in the oven right away no but we just get stuff done cuz we got a lot of stitching to do right we like to wrinkle it up really good and like tuck the edges in there a little bit so that they don't get crispy okay so and we want with wanna add it in this position we don't move it and we don't pour any liquid on it or anything else it just stays this way and that's how we get the good modeling because we don't move it around all right and so you scrunch it up and then when you scrunch it up you're gonna have places that are a lot higher than the rest you're gonna need to push those down because when it's in the oven those top pieces will burn quicker than the bottom pieces you want modeling you don't want front we don't ever Burien we don't ever burn but this is what it looks like all scrunched up and then it goes in the oven and we usually start in about a half an hour and then most of the time after the half an hour if I think it's dark enough then I'll shut the oven off and I was leave it sitting there to dry it a little bit more again I like my darker so I leave it a lot longer you start checking it it's at a half an hour at a half an hour light oven don't move it around once you've got it on here have your mom wreath scrunch it for you and then because we we put two trays in the oven we like changed one from bottom to top rotate them right rotate them this isn't like a cooking show where we have a fake oven and a new one appears everything okay so that's the process so again you need a big pot of boiling water mixed in as many teabags as you think just start looking we start under ten and we did a third of a cup of instant coffee plus we had those two little coffee tea bag things from the hotels and then I must have added another tablespoon of coffee because it wasn't getting we last dark and then this pot of stuff I pour in my garden after it cools off because coffee and tea is good for your plants and soil and so okay so you have a boil once it's boiling you turn the stove down to like simmer you add in your fabric make sure that it's covered with water all the way to the top so you might need to add more water in there use tongs to push it down so you're not burning your hands and then once you've gotten the color the desired color that you want of the darkness it'll also darken a tiny bit in the oven so if it's not it does it gets quite a bit darker in the oven I'll say a little bit darker so then after that you just pull it out of the water drain it off a little bit we don't wash it we don't rinse it we don't do anything like that you scrunch it up on top of the nonstick parchment paper on a baking sheet make sure you press it down so the edges aren't getting burnt cook it in the oven at 200 degrees for at least a half an hour at least a half an hour check it to see what you think once you've pulled that out you won't see a lot of the madelung until it's completely dry if it's not dry once you take it out of the oven after half an hour then you just set it outside to dry or set it like she said over a kitchen chair I have convection setting on my oven which means that there's a fan running so I do use that so that would be a little bit higher of a temperature than the 200 but or you can use 200 on your regular oven so Lord forgive our first tutorial we're a hot mess but this is how it's a tea coffee die all of our fabric so yeah you know okay so it is sat in the oven for 45 minutes again we like our fabric darker so if you don't want it this dark don't leave it and we switched from top to bottom so that adds time to so a lot of this is wrinkles but you can see the modeling on it and there will be one side the side that was up in the pan is going to be darker than the side that was on the parchment paper so sometimes we use this side sometimes we use that side it's just depends on what we're stitching these aren't all dry so they will be going on the kitchen chair because it's raining outside today that's it okay easy process tag us in your fabric choices if this is what you're doing let us know thanks and don't forget to go enter the giveaway on our last video and for our winter stitch along right brother is a hash tag underneath that was added and I can't think of anything else but we'll see you next Saturday for the 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Channel: Priscilla & Chelsea

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Length: 12min 15sec (735 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 05 2017