Has anyone ever dyed their faded jeans?

[fremontmama]

I have a pair of jeans that are slightly faded, but also have that faded part that comes that way that kinda bugs me b/c it is such a contrasting look. They are nice jeans though otherwise, and they fit perfectly. So I was thinking about dyeing them with some of that denim rit dye or maybe that other brand, cant remember the name b/c I thought it might lessen the effect of the faded parts a little.

Has anyone ever re-dyed their denim? Any advice? What does it make the brown stitching look like? Would it make any difference in this case, or would it just make the faded parts a little darker and the darker parts even darker, so the contrast would be same? Thoughts?

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TIA

[fremontmama]

Wow! No one has ever dyed denim? Please please please, there must be someone out there with some advice? : : :

[JessicaTX]

I used to dye my son's faded jeans with rit denim dye in the washer. It looked fine on little boy jeans (He was 3) I don't remember if it dyed gold threads or not, it was before faded jeans were popular and I did it to make his worn out second hand jeans look newer.

[aiccerb]

I used the denim rit on a pair of my maternity jeans...and it looked kind of purplish, not like regular denim The jeans were originally a medium blue wash and were pretty faded.

I tried a second time with a couple pairs of my ds's jeans, but I put some black in too. Didnt go purple this time, and I liked how they turned out -but they still didnt look like regualr denim.

Hopefully someone else will have a suggestion for ya

[LaughingHyena]

I tried it once but without much sucsess. The faded areas did even up a bit but the whole thing came out a bit patchy and yes it did dye the thread. They also came out a rather vivid shade of blue, not at all what I had hoped.

For my money they didn't look much better than when I started.

[tessie]

I've done it, but not with good results. The dye makes the jeans all one colour, whereas natural denim gets its colour from the weave - hope you know what I mean.

[fremontmama]

Thanks for all the responses everyone! It sounds like I might not get the results I am hoping for. Maybe there is a reason I have been hesitating!

Laughing Hyena, did the brown thread come out blue, or just a weird shade of brown?

[LaughingHyena]

Laughing Hyena, did the brown thread come out blue, or just a weird shade of brown?

As far as I remeber it was blue, just not the same blue as the jeans.

[fremontmama]

Oh, okay, blue. Bummer. Thanks LH. That cements my decision to just wear my favorite faded jeans the color they are now. I like the brown thread, so there wont be any dyeing going on around here. Thanks for all the input everyone

[4evermom]

I could see trying to dye faded jeans a different color, but not trying to make them look like "normal" denim. I've stamped designs on jeans before. That looked nice. I used carved wood blocks (like Eastern Indian fabric is done with) and fabric paint.