RE: Help - my camo faded.
 

I just started hunting this past season so I haven't had to worry my camo fading, but I was reading something online where a camo company makes their camo with less detail (sticks, leaves, and shadows).This is becausefrom far away the camo is darker and is more easily visible. I forget what company it was but maybe fading camo could be a good thing if they are right.

RE: Help - my camo faded.
 

If the fabric is still good and worth saving you can make your own pattern. Get a couple of packs of Rit dye (http://www.ritdye.com/) in various colors. Mix a light solution and put it in a spray bottle. Cut out a leaf pattern or some other design out of cardboard or posterboard (if you want sharp edges use contact paper and it will stick to the fabric and help give a sharper edge but I think that's not important). GO OUTSIDE. Place your jacket on a flat place and place your pattern over it, spray dye on pattern, move pattern and change it's orientation, spray again. Do just one color at a time, wash and let dry. Try to get some overlap. If your light colors aren't coming out light enough you can spray a spot with some diluted bleach first to give you some white (or lighter) cotton to start with. Start with your lighter colors and work towards the darker ones. Use more than one pattern. I do this sort of thing with spray paint and a real leaf with my stands. I will use the leaf as a inverse pattern and the overspray leaves a leaf pattern in the base color. Changing the overspray color between grey and black gives a great effect with an olive background. Doing all this on a non-windyday and not in good clothes is an obvious.

RE: Help - my camo faded.
 

2eagles...this may sound silly...but try walnut hulls. If you have ever hulled a black walnut, you know how much they stain. I used walnut hulls to redie my old cabela's leafy suit last year, as an experiment. It darkened my suit just like I wanted, without over-darkening. All I did was boil a bunch of walnut hulls outside in a large pot, then through in the camo suit to "cook" for a while. I let the "soup" sit for a few hours to soak up the stain, then took it out to clean up. I would recommend straining out the walnut hulls from the mix before adding the suit, as it was a pain to try to wash off all the hull pieces. As I said, it gave just the desired darkening I wanted. After this, I saw plenty of deer, and even took my first turkey with a bow wearing this suit. The walnuts definately didn't hurt anything, and it didn't cost anything either.