question about crochet and paint

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I am wanting to know can you use acrylic pain on a filet doily  of a cat to make it different colored spots ?  I don't embroider.  Maybe watered down food dye  and use artist brush.  the cat is doily of the month pretty cat https://www.crochet-world.com/doily.php?id=9

I was wanting to make it like calico

[NCcountrygal]

Maybe consider fabric paint found in craft stores. Not sure what it’s made of but years ago I was gifted a sweatshirt that was painted (beautiful). I turned it inside out and washed it in the machine. No problems it stayed intact

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Thank you,  I like that answer.  Never thought of it myself.

[USpolishgirl]

You can use Acrylic paint mixed with Fabric Medium. I used that from PLAID company.  100% Cotton will take that paint a lot better. So if your Cat is made with 100% Cotton crochet thread you will be Ok.

I painted many items with that way.  Even some cotton T-shirts for my granddaughters, "edges" on pillow cases and more... Those items were washed many times, by now they outgrow those T-shirts,  BUT that paint looks very good. You can even add Clorox to wash LOL.

Krys

Edited December 29, 2020 by USpolishgirl

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love these answers. Thanks!

 

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not happy with this, but It will have to work.  Can't change it now.

[Granny Square]

I had never tried to paint threadwork so I didn't offer an opinion earlier, but seeing this now, (with 20/20 hindsight) it occurred to me (and I've done this technique before , sorry it didn't occur to me when you asked), that a non-paint solution could have been to treat the brown color as 'shadow filet'.  It is half-filling a mesh, which gives you a third 'color'--open mesh, filled mesh, half mesh.  This linked pattern is in trebles and uses gross filet (the meshes are 4 stitches  across not 3), but I went with DC and 3 stitch meshes and "inventing" a half mesh as follows:  

I did the shadow stitch like this: skip 1 DC, DC in next DC, ch1, DC in next DC.  So the middle DC was a little crooked, but it slanted 1 stitch "off" in 1 direction on the even rows, and 1 stitch off in the odd rows.  (yeah, that edging needs work...)

Edited January 5, 2021 by Granny Square

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love the rose

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I soaked the cat hoping this one help it