Microwave Dying Step by Step

[backcountrycapers]

Well guys I did some PB a light blue for some more streamers and bucktails for spring and I did a SBS as I went

1-  wash the materials with a light soft dish  soap (dawn)  and let Soak the materials you want to dye ahead of time  these I  soaked over night.  Rinse all soap before adding to dye Bath



2-  I used Kingfisher Blue dye to get the light color I was looking for and added 1/4 of a teaspoon to a 2 cups of warm water and 1/2 cup vinegar to lock the dyes  stir and  mix .


3-   Add material to dye bath making sure all of the material is covered



4-  Cover in Kling wrap  and poke 4 holes in it with toothpick.  Place in microwave on high heat for 1 minute  remove and stir.  You can repeat this  sequence for approx 3 tries before the material comes saturated with your color.  Let cool between  as to not over cook the material.  Be careful of steam while removing kling wrap



5-  Rinse all of the dye from  material in warm water and make sure its the color your looking for




6-  Hang to dry.  From start to finish cleaned up and hanging you can do it easy in 10 minutes.  Mama wouldn't even know unless you spill the dye which your in trouble either way.  Once the vinegar is added  its harder to clean up.      Also if your  concerned off colored fingers I recommend wearing rubber gloves  




The colors are really endless so if you have  problems buying that color your looking for try playing with the dyes to match what it

[Dane]

that orange turned out amazing gary.. One color i always had trouble with was yellow. it always ended up pale and ugly. its amazing how much dye that underfur will soak up too

[backcountrycapers]

The light yellow one in the pic was done with 5 paks of  Koolaid  and the brighter one was 1/2 tsp of dye.    I find it soo much easier personally   I will be playing with this more this spring  and will start recording the colors I get from = amounts of dye so I can reproduce them close each time. 

[Mike]

Good work man.

[backcountrycapers]

Did I miss anything??  lol

[Charles]

I've only dyed feathers a couple times and used the microwave trick and Kool-aid.  I was actually surprised how easy it was to do and that it actually worked, LOL!! 

[Dane]

my ugly yellow pb was done in koolaid too. the red i tried turned out fine, but i had to nuke the yellow like 3 times to get it bright. and it still wasnt bright enough.

[Mike]

Did I miss anything??  lol

nope you did right some fine young feller I tried to do some orange wool this morning and knew right away I missed a step....vinegar  :(" title="Angry" class="smiley"/>....LOL....

For yellow I found my best results come from yellow food colour and Tumeric

[backcountrycapers]

You boys want to check out a dye job take a look at the streamer 365 day 10 by Barry Phillips.  OMG that would be a chalange  hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

http://streamers365.com/2012/01/10-funky-sunrise/

I meant to try some blue wool this morning and forgot until I cleaned everything up.   Will do some on Fri maybe

[Mike]

Momma dyed some wool like that over at a 4H thingy befor the holidays...don't know how

Great work on that fly on Darrens site!!

[kbranch]

great step by step!

[backcountrycapers]

This mornings dye bath,  I would still  like to offer a dye / tie or fish day to the members here.  It will be much easier now that the days are getting nicer.  We will have to see what we can come up with over the next  few weeks to make it happen. 

Polar bear and saddle hackles

[Kaitlin]

i like helping dad with this but he never said here about the die on moms cutting board 

[Mike]

LOL...you did a great job Kaitlin and I hope Mom wasn't too mad at the old feller.

[backcountrycapers]

Thanks Kid...............    Gonna have to take her laptop I can see this.... 


Mom was not impressed at all we can just leave it at that   

[lykos33]

  Bwahahahahaha...what's the old saying? "Kids say the darndest things" in this case the truth....
Murray