Going to attempt to dye a pair of boots. Tips very welcome!

[AmberNectarine]

Have a pair of cowboy boots which I have had for about 10 years and loved. They are, however, baby blue (I was 17, ok?) I want to due them steel grey, so have ordered dye and some stuff to prepare the leather. Beyond this, I am clueless. Anyone done this, and can guide me?

There is a website called craftster.org which has just about anything you can aimagine crafty on there, and lots of people post tutorials. Worth a search? here

If you love them I'd probably take them to a cobbler to do it for you. I has some boots dyed and it only cost about £15 iirc.

Hi Amber I dyed a pair of knee high boots from sage green to black fairly easily. If you can try and get a spray and do it outside (apparently leather dye is quite hard to get off the kitchen table ) I think mine came from ebay. I started with Dylon shoe dye and quickly lost patience with the tiny brush.

I think it took me about a week of lots of quick light layers. If you do get a spray you need to lie the boots flat on their sides and rotate them if that makes sense to avoid getting drip marks. Also I stuffed my boots with newspaper, but can't remember why...

Good Luck

Ooh shoe painters!!!

My cobbler doesn't do shoe dyeing anymore. I bought some online from ebay and did it myself, worked very well though I was only going from mid-brown to dark brown. Prepared with with nail polish remover first then voila! I used Fiebings leather dye as heard that Dylon was not so good.

I wouldn't use the Magix spray stuff, I used it for some boots and it just coated and hardened the leather and they ended up looking really cheap (when they weren't!).