Once you dye one shirt with a beet, you may want to dye other things. Your white curtains, your other white shirts, your white pants …
Photo: Klaus Hicker/Getty Images If I told you that you could at once have a beautiful new dusty-pink shirt and a prepared beet, would you believe me? Well, have I got news for you.
Anyway, I’d cut the top off of the beet pre-boil, and the bottom, because I didn’t know what I was doing . I then filled a small pot with water and brought it to a boil, letting the beet boil, fully immersed, for about an hour. After the hour elapsed, I found that the beet, newly soft and edible, had bled a bunch of pink beet juice into the water, leaving it quite pleasing to behold.
Oh fuck, I thought. Oh damn it! Immediately I took out the beet , removed my shirt, and threw it right into the pot in a burst of angry defiance and bold creativity. I left it in for about three hours and returned to find my white shirt had turned a charming shade of pink. It was now my new pink shirt:
After dyeing my beet shirt, I read a few articles about how you’re supposed to dye a shirt with a beet. They recommended several things I did not do, like: cutting the beet into large chunks to expose more of its flesh to the water and get a deeper hue, using more than one beet, letting the shirt sit in the beet water for up to 24 hours, and ironing it once its dry, to set the color.
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