DIY Inkodye Napkins for Fall Entertaining

February 02, 2022 Post a Comment

As I get more and more than immersed in food DIYs and entertaining ideas, one obsession in particular keeps popping up for me. And information technology'southward kind of a weird one…napkins!

I really, actually honey coming upwardly with different DIY (cloth) napkin designs. It's strange, I know. But it's truthful. Evidence here and here.

So to keep on truckin' with this unusual obsession, I have a new napkin DIY today. And information technology involves one of my new favorite things…Lumi Inkodye. Have yous ever tried this stuff? It's amazing! So fun.

Want to make your own? Hither's how…

Supplies:

I put together a new DIY supplies kit for Darby Smart that has all of items that you lot need to make your own Lumi dyed napkins. It comes with 2 packages of dye (choose the colour yous desire) and 4 hemstitched napkins (just like the ones I used). Yous can pick upwardly the kit right here and the supplies you need will come straight to your door.

How To:

1. Milk shake Lumi Inkodye co-ordinate to instructions (I think anywhere from 20-30 seconds is probably good). Then, in low light, snap the packaging open (all the dye will start coming out) and spread the dye evenly with the edge of the packaging, similar a duster. If there are whatever areas that you weren't able to cover with the edge of the packaging, you tin use a pigment castor. But I would use information technology every bit a final resort considering the dye ends of soaking into the brush, so less dye gets onto the cloth that style.

two. Adjacent, add together items on summit of the napkin that yous want to utilise as a resist. This is what will create the pattern shapes on each napkin.

Note: I tried flowers for ane, but I put them outside in really low calorie-free at the end of the mean solar day. So the event wasn't as crisp as I was hoping for. The side by side day, I tried using rolled oats to create and organic dotted design and put them outside at the brightest time of day (between noon and 2pm) and information technology worked like a amuse!

3. And so, bring the napkin outside, preferably on a brilliant and sunny day, and permit the dye practice it's magic. Give it about 20 minutes before removing the 'resist' items and bringing the cloth inside.

4. Wash with detergent and you lot're good to go.

Concept, photography, and styling by Brittni Mehlhoff

You tin can check out my new Darby Smart DIY kit here, if youre interested.

Take you started thinking well-nigh fall dinner parties and Thanksgiving entertaining withal? What entertaining DIYs do you think y'all'll endeavour this season?

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