Dying Clothes Pins

I have seen a few articles online about dying clothes pins and I just had to try it out for myself. This is what happened when I did try.

A little background on why I decided to even dye some of my clothes pins. I have two large tapestries which I have mounted onto my wall using clothes pins and Velcro (I may have to write a blog about how well or bad these were to use in the future). They are a cute way of displaying the tapestry without damaging the tapestry itself, but the color of plain clothes pins just don’t match with the decor in my basement. So, when I saw that you could dye clothes pins, I knew I had to try to make them a color that would compliment the tapestries they were displaying.

I tried dying 10 clothes pins and two tiny wooden hearts. I filled a clean glass jar (used to be for tomato sauce) with hot water (boiling), a table spoon of white vinegar, the clothes pins and hearts, and blue food coloring; letting them sit overnight.

After 24 hours they seemed more green then blue. I decided to add more blue food coloring and leave them for another 24 hours. I must admit I forgot about them and they actually sat for about another 60 hours or so.

They looked a bit dark when they were wet.

I must say I actually liked the color they dried to.

Next time I will take the metal off the clothes pins prior to dying them. Some of the metal started to tarnish from being in the water mixture for so long.

They turned out quite well to hold up the tapestry in my basement!

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