I attempted to dye a dress of mine a chartreuse color and it unfortunately turned out very lime green (Bottom fabric in case it wasn’t obvious). Any advice on how I could get the dress closer to the top fabric color?

Dress is 100% cotton.

Hi! I have a quick question about if my pot is still safe.

I am working on a project that involves Rit dye. I have been boiling water in my stainless steel pot and then transferring the hot water to a separate plastic tub where I add the dye. I dyed my fabric yellow, rinsed out the plastic tub and started boiling more water in the stainless steel pot for a batch of green.

I poured new water into the plastic tub (which I noted still had a little yellow in it). I realized I wasn't ready yet so I poured it back into my stainless steel pot. I realized I probably shouldn't have done that that so I poured the water out after a couple seconds and rinsed the pot out. Is the stainless steel pot unsafe now or am I being paranoid?

Thank you!

Hi! I have a quick question about if my pot is still safe.

I am working on a project that involves Rit dye. I have been boiling water in my stainless steel pot and then transferring the hot water to a separate plastic tub where I add the dye. I dyed my fabric yellow, rinsed out the plastic tub and started boiling more water in the stainless steel pot for a batch of green.

I poured new water into the plastic tub (which I noted still had a little yellow in it). I realized I wasn't ready yet so I poured it back into my stainless steel pot. I realized I probably shouldn't have done that that so I poured the water out after a couple seconds and rinsed the pot out. Is the stainless steel pot unsafe now?

Thank you!

I have a denim jacket 76% cotton and 23% lyocell blend. I checked and supposedly Rit all purpose is fine with lyocell since it's plant based but...well.

I have dyed it using the bucket method(I'm not buying a new pot, no charity shops have one big enough) , ombre black/fuchsia. I have done this with two other jackets with the same dye, the same method (with different % cotton TBF) and both are fine.

This is not taking. When it's dry, it looks the way I want. But when I so much as rinse it, I can see the dye coming out.

I followed the instructions to use soap and salt, as hot water as I can manage so what have I done wrong?

Do I NEED the fixative? Did I maybe just not leave it long enough? Or hot enough? Should I have also used vinegar? Can I use fixative now, at this point, or should I try to strip the dye and start again? Why is this one jacket bullying me 😂

Hey everyone,
I dyed a white cotton jumper using Dylon machine dye in the “Coffee” shade following the instructions. The overall colour came out okay (a soft brown), but there are weird purple/lilac lines and blotches all over it – some look like streaks, others more like irregular marks.
I’ve attached photos so you can see what I mean.
Has anyone else had this happen with Dylon coffee (or any of their machine dyes)? What causes these purple marks, and is there a way to remove or tone them down without ruining the rest of the colour?
Any tips would be really appreciated!

I also dyed it at a high temp in a pot on the stove for about 30 mins

I have used Rit All-Purpose dye to good effect on denim jackets (specifically the X-Ray Indigo Denim Jacket, which is 2 percent Spandex). Because I use blue jackets that are already colored, I get a nice gradient out of it (currently a green one using green dye and a purple one using wine-colored dye).

However, looking to get into fiber reactive dye since it's supposed to be better and more permanent. Considering trying to use Turquoise Dye (maybe from Dharma?) on an X-Ray Indigo Denim Jacket.

But any advice for this sort of thing? Down the road, I could see myself trying to manage some of the cool tiedye designs folks have, except on a denim jacket. Ice dyeing looks intriguing.

Advice on blogs or YouTube channels that focus on dyeing denim would also be great. Thank you!