When dying seam binding....

Hi All!

I wanted to pass on a little idea I had while I was dying some seam binding this past weekend.   You know me...I'm very "frugal" and I hate to waste anything so I had this great idea while I was trying to dry my seam binding....

o.k.... so I gathered a nice big pile of white seam binding and pounced some Distress Stain here and there until I thought I had enough ink ~ next I spritzed the pile with water to distribute the ink through the entire pile.  Doing it this way some areas of ribbon will be darker and others will be lighter.

Well, I had WAY too much water as you can see... 
I usually just let it dry naturally but this was going to take too long so I had a thought....

I pulled out a few tags and started blotting the pile of seam binding on the tags.

I didn't really want complete coverage, just ink here and there...

Once one tag was inked to my satisfaction, I moved on to the next until most of the excess water had been pulled out of the binding into the tags.  It worked like a charm!!  I ended up with 5 really cool looking tags and a pile of almost dry dyed seam binding!

It's a great way to kill two birds with one stone...

using half as much stain because I didn't use any extra...

just what was already in the ribbon.

So, next time you pull out some seam binding to dye,

pull out a few tags as well!