Blue Denim
Posted in fabric on 01/01/2011 02:18 pm by admin| Account limit of 2000 requests per hour exceeded. |
I want to dye my denim blue jeans?
I bought RIT denim blue dye. I want to make sure I do it correctly. The directions are a little vague. Can someone tell me step by step how to do it right. It says to add salt and a tablespoon of detergent as well. SALT?
By the way, I'm just dying them because they're old and a kind of faded. They're already blue, just not as dark as before.
Start filling the washer with the hottest temperature that is safe for your fabric.
Add in the dye.
Add the salt. (It helps set the dye into the fabric)
Add the detergent. (however much you would normally use for 1 pair of jeans)
Let the washer slosh to mix the dye, salt & soap.
Put the prewet jeans in the washer.
Let it slosh to get them completely soaked in the dye bath. Stop the washer.
Let them soak in the dye for about 30 minutes. Go check on them once in a while to make sure the fabric hasn't floated up out of the dye.
After 30 minutes, let the washer finish it's normal cycle. I usually put on the extra rince cycle or just restart it to rince again.
Dry them as you normally would.
Clean the washer by running it through a cycle with bleach.