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I dyed a large package of bottle brush trees, half turquoise-green and half red.
I dyed a large package of bottle brush trees, half turquoise-green and half red.
Assemble your trees and divide into how many different groups you need for various different colors.
Bleach them in hot water and bleach. I almost used a whole jug between the two batches. This took almost the entire afternoon.
I ended up getting a little more of the dye off - but as you can see - they only got to be a yellowish color. Keep this in mind when you pick your colors of dye. Yellow + blue = green (they're original color). I made this mistake - and ended up double dyeing in two additional packets of turquoise dye to make them a greenish-blue. (should have thought this out before going with blue dye!)
Let them dry overnight. Give them a dye bath. For my set of 10 trees - I used two packages of each color in hot water with salt. (following the directions on the dye package)
Let them dry on a towel. Then assemble them in your house!
Happy Trees and Deer in my apartment.