Dying Kastel sunshirts - before and after - UPDATED 7/6 with experiment results!

[MsRidiculous]

Now that I’ve dyed like half of what’s in my closet, I started playing around with techniques. You can’t really tie-dye these shirts, but I was trying to get something sort of tie-dye esque. Figured if that failed I’d just do an ombre, which was my original plan before I went off script and started playing around. But I really like the cool, sort of stone-washed look that I got! I’m gonna keep it like this.

I also dyed another pair of tights - they were kind of a lighter/brighter navy that I didn’t really love, so I dyed them to a deep dark navy.

Someone needs to stop me, I’m out of control.

[MsRidiculous]

@suzyq

Wow would love to try this with some light colored tights that I have. I wonder if the hot water would mess up the silicone on the seat? Or maybe I could just try warm water?

I’ve done 3 different brands now (For Horses, Ariat, Kerrits) and it hasn’t messed with the silicone on any of them.

[BlueDrifter]

So is everyone using RIT for Synthetics? Most of my REI “technical” shirts are synthetic. And are you doing it in a cooking pot on the stove, or did you invest is something that can be ruined. I mean, do I want to use my good big pasta pot for this?

[MsRidiculous]

@BlueDrifter

So is everyone using RIT for Synthetics? Most of my REI “technical” shirts are synthetic. And are you doing it in a cooking pot on the stove, or did you invest is something that can be ruined. I mean, do I want to use my good big pasta pot for this?

I used RIT for the first one and wasn’t super impressed. I’ve used Jacquard Acid Dye for all the rest.

[Jo]

@BlueDrifter

So is everyone using RIT for Synthetics? Most of my REI “technical” shirts are synthetic. And are you doing it in a cooking pot on the stove, or did you invest is something that can be ruined. I mean, do I want to use my good big pasta pot for this?

I have used RIT for all of mine. I’ve used a stainless pasta type pot for all of them and it washes out perfectly fine, as it did with my spoon rest.

ETA: It does say to use a stainless steel pot so I do not use my non-stick Calphalon type pots.

[ParadoxFarm]

@BlueDrifter

So is everyone using RIT for Synthetics? Most of my REI “technical” shirts are synthetic. And are you doing it in a cooking pot on the stove, or did you invest is something that can be ruined. I mean, do I want to use my good big pasta pot for this?

When I started to dye things, I bought a big old cooking pot from Goodwill just for this purpose.

[suzyq]

Well I finally did mine, I had some light blue tights that I wanted to make navy, but they really came out more like bright royal 🙁 I used Rit for synthetics, navy, used the whole bottle and soaked for 45 min. Maybe I will re-dye them with the Jacquard.

[Training_Cupid]

I tried white cotton breeches (4% spandex I think) with the all-purpose RIT in dark green, and it is pretty splotchy and much lighter than I expected :no: I’ll try again, don’t have much to lose at this point.