Cleaning my dress

[ajidamoo]

This may be stupid, but I'm gonna ask anyway. My dress needs serious cleaning. The jingles will have to come off of course. What's the best way to do this without taking my whole dress apart? In the future, any suggestions for how to sew a new dress so I don't have this much trouble again?

[Forestnative]

I've seen some girls use velcro, but I find that with a little help from (family or friends) taking all the jingles off and crimping them back on goes surprisingly fast. I have 365 jingles on a dress passed down from my auntie. I needed to washed it and began taking the jingles off by myself. I thought it was going to take forever, until I asked for help, and then it was almost a race to see who could get their row off first. Good Luck. Happy Jingle'n

[ajidamoo]

I started to do that and I think I messed the jingles up. They had to be unrolled just a little in order to come off. I don't think I'm gonna be able to put them back on.

[Forestnative]

How are they messed up?

I'm not sure what happened, sometimes you do have to unroll them a tad, but when you crimp them carefully back on they roll a little back together also. If you really bent it good you might have to re-roll it, or get another cone. Then again I've only used copenhagen cones, so their could be a difference in thickness, kind of metal ect. If you need help rolling, or need to make a rolling tool let me know.

[ajidamoo]

How do you make a rolling tool? Usually I get jingles that are already rolled.

[ndngirl70]

I never took my cones off to wash my dress. I just put it in the washing machine on gentle.. I put it inside a pillowcase. Then you either put it in the dryer or hang it right away

[Singing Otter]

yeah.... I spot clean when needed,,, but I put mine in an old pillowcase and put it in the washing machine with some gentle detergent so the colors won't run. A few times I've washed the whole thing by hand. Then I hang it out.

[ajidamoo]

Won't the jingles get rusty if you get them wet?

[Singing Otter]

In all honesty mine haven't rusted yet, not sure why that is. I keep my stuff hung up in garment bags when I'm not dancing them (Thanks dollar tree hehe ) but I don't know if that has anything to do with it or not.

[WocusWoman]

I would imagine that if she is thoroughly drying the dress w/cones before she puts the dress away, they would not rust.

[jinglefeather]

I have been listened and watched jingle dancing many times.
Once, I had a dream in which I saw myself jingle dancing around and around and around. I never fell or lost balance. It was a perfect dance. Then I woke up. I knew that I will sew and make a jingle dress sooner or later.

[ndngirl70]

Won't the jingles get rusty if you get them wet?

No...that's why you have to hang it first. I think the cones will only rust if they are in constant contact with something wet.

[NDNQt]

That is what I did with my goddaughter's dress - just put it in a pillowcase and used Woolite. It came out looking so much brighter!

[ajidamoo]

Does it matter what kind of jingles they are? I think I got mine from crazy crow, so I'm not sure about that. Just want to be sure before I attempt to put it in the washing machine.

[Singing Otter]

It shouldn't be too bad but I can't say for sure. One of my dresses have the Missouri River lids, the others are Fultz lids. I hadn't had any problems at all. I've heard folks talk about Missouri River tarnishing real bad though.