Dying Ombre Curtains

Today I was feeling a bit crafty, so I decided to try hand-dying curtains for my daughter's playroom. I had thought this was a better route because I really wanted to have those ombre curtains after seeing them all over Pinterest.  The downside to those curtains is they can be expensive if you can find them.  JCPenny was the only website I was able to find them on and theirs started at $60 a panel.

Not bad, but not worth the money, in my opinion.  

The only problem with this project I had no idea where to start.  Of course where do I go for inspiration .... Pinterest. I found that Emily over at Better Remade had the best post about how to go about making these curtains.  Hers turned out pretty well, so I thought "Why not? How hard can it be?".

I gathered up what I needed.

And got started....

Ok, truth be told I had a feeling this was not going to work to well before I started.  The biggest thing was the dye bottle said it was not recommended for use on 100% polyester.... and what were the curtains... 100% polyester.  I figured I would still give it a try.

I did use this scale to help with the length of time to dye each section.

I didn't measure anything out.  I am not much into that unless I HAVE to do it.  The only thing I did do was clip the two panels together.  This way I knew that the dye job would be much closer then if did them separately.  

After waiting ALL that time.... (lol).....here is what I got....

Not much of anything..... I know because of it being a sheer, I wasn't expecting this deep deep color, but it took awhile for me to find the right angle and lighting to even get a picture to show you the results.

This wasn't a complete fail, but far from a complete success.  Next time, I will be much more diligent about what I am using before I start.

This is worth a Second try.