Jacquard iDye for Natural Fabrics .49 Oz - Black

Wear gloves make sure you boil this & stir. worked great for my light weight pjs that were a yellow beige & I dyed them BLACK!!!!! It worked well. I tried rit dye but their darkest color is charcoal & it turned out splotchy even tho I heated it all night. . I redid it using the same water/dye mix & added three packs of this product. It dyed two sets of ugly light color poly pjs & I will try to brighten up another pair of faded black lightweight poly pjs. Saves $$$$ & it’s kind of fun. Washed in cool water & they look BLACK. yay! 3 sets of pjs that I will actually wear now.

Well, I can't fault this dye. I followed the instructions and restarted the washing machine after about 5 minutes. Then forgot to set the timer and it washed all the way through. This only gave the dye around a total of 15 minutes to agitate and soak. I used two packs for a 9'x12' painter drop cloth, the really heavy burlap type stuff. It was an of white color, almost cream, but I think it was the material's natural color. I washed the drop cloth first, then applied the dye. The cloth looks red too, a nice bright red.RIT DYE: You don't want to use it to dye natural fabrics, like cotton. Rit dye is a general purpose dye that doesn't do too well with cotton, and it will fade with washings or sunlight exposure. However, if you're dying something that doesn't see much light and gets infrequently washed, rit dye is "ok." Aside from being a general purpose dye and not made exclusively for natural fabrics, Rit dye's main deficiency is that it doesn't dye dark enough, unless you use about twice what is recommended.If you're dying cotton or other natural fabrics, Jacquard dye is what you want, and make sure it's for natural fabrics because they offer a "poly" type for synthetics. They also offer two other types of dyes, but they are much harder to apply. So if you want easy, use the "iDye" type.Fill your washer with hot water (as hot as your hot setting gets). I turned my cold inlet off to initially fill the washer.Drop the packs into the water. They dissolve. Mix it well.Add one cup of salt and mix.Add the fabric and let the washer agitate. The longer you let it agitate/soak, the darker the color. Shoot for around 30 minutes. If you don't want to screw up, like I did, leave the washing machine top open (can't do that with front loaders) so it stops before it goes any further than agitate. Reset and let it go again.

Quality very poor, color cover very weak, doesn't work as advertised and by following written directions of manufacturer. Cost of this item is very expensive and not worth $15 sold on Amazon. Most YouTube self/ videos indicated color doesn't match or covers your item completely. YouTube and myself should not blame ourselves on this poorly made product. It's not worth the cost of cleaning scrubbing counter, pots, floor and splashes to everything in your kitchen. OH and they say it smells, which is not true, it doesn't have an odor at all. DON'T BUY THIS DYE! You have been warned!!!

This is a long review because I want to share what I learned from my dyeing experience. The short answer is that the dye had a wine color, almost purple while dyeing but it rinsed to a nice crimson. Play with the amount of water and time to achieve the red you want. A great dye, but you’ll have to decide if it’s worth it.Following my motto of making things more complicated, I decided to make a “Moby Dick” knitting needle holder, stuffed with red fiber fill so the needles will look even more like harpoons. I won’t know if dyeing the fiber fill was worth it until I know the reaction of the gift’s recipient, but I learned many valuable lessons. Hopefully you can learn from my mistakes.1) Plan ahead. Get all your equipment ready before starting because once you start there’s no stopping. Set out extra bowls, towels, utensils… anything you can possibly imagine needing. Decide how large a container you’ll need and double it— my pot was large enough for the filling to move but not contain the splashes from stirring, which lead to most of the mess. I used a slotted spoon but if I do it again would use tongs to move the material. I worked with little bits of fiber fill; if I was dyeing a single large piece of fabric I think the ability to grip it and move it around would be crucial and help prevent splashing.2) I suggest wearing gloves. I didn’t notice it but the dye got on my hands and from there light switches, the wall, ice cube trays, my project, and my face. It washed easily off my skin except for my cuticles and fingernails. Also, wear something you wouldn’t mind turning red3) Focus on dyeing by itself. Clean up before moving on to other tasks. I thought I was careful about washing my hands, and moved between projects only to continue to find pink stains in the strangest places for days afterward. *Just noticed a pink stain on a pillow case. No idea how it came in contact with the dye.4) In retrospect, ice cream buckets and plastic containers would have been a better choice than mixing bowls. I’m not sure how “toxic” the dye residue is but my plastic bowls and pot won’t ever be clean again.5) The dye cleaned up easily off the metal stove top and porcelain sink, light switches and a plastic jug. Anything I’d call “rubbery plastic” is now pink forever: a drain filter, “stove gap covers”, and laminate flooring.6) The dye pack dissolves entirely. Don’t begin the process prematurely by setting it on a hot stove top.7) Depending on how precise you want to be, try dyeing a sample to determine the length of time and concentration of dye to use to achieve the color you want. I made two batches that turned out fairly different but that wasn’t a problem.8) Lastly, after having my project take over my apartment I considered skipping the last step of washing my dyed filling. Don’t. You’d be amazed how much dye comes out.Even when everything is rinsed, washed, and dried the dye can come off on your hands and be transferred (I suppose depending on the material). While stuffing my whale I thought I was careful but still ended up with a partially pink whale. I wouldn’t even consider washing it stuffed, in my brief experience I imagine the dye would reactivate and run everywhere. Because of the nature of my project I can’t speak to how dyed material washes but I would wash whatever was dyed alone and by hand.If I were to do this again I would set it up so I used a camping stove set up on a driveway, using a large stew pot, where I could clean up with a hose and not be tempted to work on another task at the same time.