As the Emperor requests -
The dyeing is a little tougher than I expected. I tried using a sponge brush and got some awful streakiness, then used an old tshirt and seemed like a much more even application but the streaks are already set. Its actually not as bad in person as it looks in the photo, and I'm going to keep going on this piece just to see how the construction looks and feels.
And I used a piece of posterboard for my cutting template, previously utilized by my daughter for coloring
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