A Silk Dress
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You can make a summer dress for bikinis from two crinkle chiffon scarves. Paint the silk with steam fixed water-based silk paint, then cut the scarf and sew together.
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1 Assemble the silk painting frame:
To make a frame, assemble two sets of two sides - each side measuring 120cm.
2 Attach rubber bands to the suspension hooks and attach these onto the sides of the frame at the upper edge.
4 If you brush the silk with water first, then the colour will run more easily without drying too quickly and forming blotches.
5 When it comes to colouring two pieces of silk, it's a good idea to count the drops of colour in the same volume of water. The colour here is very diluted. You may add more colour gradually.
6 Paint a flower in one corner of the wet silk with undiluted paint. You can draw soft lines towards the opposite corner.
7 When the base is dry, paint the dots in the middle of the flower. Use completely undiluted purple paint.
9 Wrap the silk in cotton fabric. Silk should not touch silk. Then wrap the fabric in aluminium foil, and put it on a stone in a large pot with some water. Before putting on the lid on the pot, put a towel in-between to absorb condensation. Fix the silk for 1½ - 2 hours, then rinse and iron.
10 Cut off the three corners. See the drawing. Make straps from the off-cuts, sew together, turn and stitch. On the back, cut down approx. 10cm and sew a rolled edge: Fold over approx. 2-3mm, sew a small stitch on both edges. Pull the thread after a few stitches and the edge will roll.
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