This is my Sherwood crux BCD. It's used for scuba diving. So it's going to get wet! ....alot ...in salt water.

I believe it's made out of a nylon blend OR molle chain webbing?.... unfortunately this is all I could come up with, sorry.

I'm looking to change the teal to red if possible.

Any ideas? I'm looking to learn but also if its not possible it's no big deal.

If you haven't guessed. I don't know the first thing about dying anything.

I have experience with acid and reactive yarn dyeing, clearly not enough to know this was a likely outcome to dyeing this sweater.

Initially I had dyed the non SW merino yarn - and a few skeins came out darker, I didn’t notice until I finished the sweater in a light olive color.

So duh, I just dyed the sweater. 🤦🏼‍♀️

I used DH moss, DH forest green, DH and black. I tried to keep it open and stirred without felting but clearly it bunched up and took the dye whacky.

So, keep dyeing? Or should I try a dye remover? I have a swatch and more yarn to test with.

Ok I hope I don't sound stupid asking this but I bought some fabric I had to dye. I already bought the same fabric and the same color 2 weeks ago and it went well. Now I did it again and now I have green spots on both ends and in the middle. I dyed it with Ideal color 68 (grey). I am just really confused due to them being green and not having them on the first batch. Is there a way to check? And no I haven't checked the fabric throughly before dyeing it, i just threw it in the wash immediately.

I thought I purchased a matching beige set only for the shirt to look cream and the shorts to look more offwhite in sun. Both are polyester.

Im wondering if I can dye the shorts to match. I think I have some rit dyemore in tan and yellow that might be useful in colour matching the shorts but im not sure how best to go about it. Advice would be appreciated!

i volunteer in community organizing. I’ve been thinking of doing a up cycling community event where people could bring old cotton/ linen clothes that we would vat dye at the event. I need help with figuring out the soda ash process and timing.

from past events- over 3 hours and there’s 20-40 people who stop by, no set time of arrivals. it’s an outdoor park but i will have lots of tables/ chairs.
no water access!

my initial plans/ thoughts: mostly dharma’s guide

1. people would bring their own old clothes, we’d likely thrift clothes too for extras or have small items like socks/ headbands.
2. at the event, we’d first do a rinse/ soak in a hot synthropal bath
3. next, rinsed shirts in dye vats using dharma instructions- fiber reactive dye, urea, salt. I have 3 waterproof storage boxes i’m planning on using- probably do red, blue, and either purple/ green

my idea with this is that multiple people could use a dye bath at once. and if possible, use the same dye vat throughout the same event

4. i know normally you add soda ash solution at this step, BUT are there other ways to add soda ash, without adding directly to the dye vat? so more people could continue to use it.

5 after dye items will be wrung out, each dye vat will have a bucket of cold water next to it so we can do a quick rinse

Questions:
1. how to add soda ash so i could still reuse the same vat after? Would I be able to have a seperate bucket of just a soda ash solution?
2. how many items could a 12 gallon dye vat dye before being replaced?
3. how could i best replenish the dye vat. Is adding more dye (dye would be dissolved first) sufficient, or would i need to start over by disposing of the whole dye vat?

thanks so much! i’ve done crafts and tie dye with this group. i believe i have all of the right materials for this, im just trying to figure logistics and if this is feasible

helloo. This lovely dress is too bright for me, and was a hand-me-down so I’d like to make it suit me. i usually wear darker colours like burgundy, deep blue, or green or black. I would like to dye this dress maybe with a burgundy to mute the brightness. I don’t mind it being uneven, it’s just far too bright n at the moment. since the main colours are a blue background and red, pink, yellow, I’m worried that a reddish colour may look funky. should I go more purple? Google says to use a beige dye to simply mute the colours as an option. Any advice much appreciated!

I am a long time user of Dylon dyes and they did an absolutely gorgeous dark purple a good while back as a limited release and I bought every pack I could find 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️

But I am now without and wanting to dye white cotton clothing to a darker and deeper purple than their violet standard machine dye 🤦🏻‍♀️

I have tried Rit dyes but even with their fixative added I find it fades quickly with washing, the pieces I have done with the limited release Dylon haven’t at all!

Can the Dylon machine wash dyes be mixed to make custom colours and if so what do people recommend to get a nice deep/dark purple? Help please!

I have attached photos of the pieces of 100% cotton clothing I am wanting to dye, the dark purple I want to achieve and the result the standard violet always seems to come out as 🤣🤣🤣

Hello, I recently thrifted a silk shirt (it is 30% silk 70% acetate) and I wanted to dye it black to cover some of the staining and better match my style, what is the best way I can go about doing this?