Hi there. I'm going to be doing my first batch of tie dyes with procion dyes this week. Previously only used the Tulip brand one-step kits. Do any of you prepare your shirts ahead of time to dye them later? For example, i was thinking about doing the soda ash soak, then spinning them dry, and tying them up today. Then tomorrow preparing the dyes and dyeing. Anyone else prepare their projects like this, or is it better practice to do everything at once?
I want to tie dye my kirkland signature sweatshirt and was wondering if presoaking it in soda ash, to help the brightness last longer, damage the decal or strip it off? I couldn't find anything about this specifically from Google.
Thanks in advance for any input!
I'm thinking about getting it from dharma but I've heard you can it from a pool supply store and save on shipping. Anyone have experience with this?
My local refill shop only has bulk Castile soap and laundry detergent which is but two of the things on my list of cleaning supply ingredients. Trying to do better! Hydrogen peroxide and alcohol come in plastic containers at the store and arenβt very large!
I soaked, spin and folded up a hoodie for dyeing. Then- life. Itβs now a nice dry spiral. Now that I have time to dye it- do I need to re-soda ash water it when Iβm done? Or will it be ok?
So I usually let my shirts soak in soda ash for about an hour but I got busy and forgot and itβs been about a day and a half.. are there any issues that will arise from letting shirts soak that long or am I good?
I Just noticed a very slight yellow tint to my stripping run bucket after letting the sodium carbonate break down before the spirit run. Online reading on homedistiller seems like itβs fine but Iβm curious if you should only add sodium carbonate the day before you do your spirit run
Do I just catch the washing machine on a spin cycle and throw wet soda ash shirt in to spin out excess water and then dry them without messing up the Ph? Would I have to air dry them? I assume my spray them with a light mist of water (in this case soda ash+water) would not work as a fixative because it wonβt be fully saturated. Iβm probably over thinking it but I want to dry dye them. Okay so my question restated so I make sense would be: βcan I drier dry soda ash soaked cotton items?β If the answer is yes, would I have to use the washing machine or would a sturdy hang wringing work well enough? I always dry with 3 tennis balls and a medium sized towel cause blanks wonβt seem to dry without some assistance in the drier. I like to pleat dry shirts, please know I know I could just work them wet.
Hey everyone, I am wondering if I can get away with mixing soda ash in with my MX Fiber reactive dyes. I plan on using all of it in one session.
Thanks in advance. πππ»
Hello friends, I have been making my own soda ash, with mixed results. I have cooked it on the stove in a heavy sauce pan, stirring occasionally until it stopped popping. I had great results there, this last big batch I cooked In the oven on a low temp (I donβt remember, I wanna say it was 250 degrees, for 30 or 40 minutes) I grabbed it to use today and itβs all clumpy. Iβm hoping to get some guidance on how you do it and do you have great results, or honestly is it just worth it to buy soda ash instead of making your own ? I would rather make my own I just feel I need to fine tune it, can you all help me out ? Thanks !
I'm prepping 150 shirts for a group event. I would like to dry the shirts in a clothes dryer after I soak them in soda ash... Does anyone know if this will affect the soda ash? Thanks so much, peace and love.
I have a 7-month old, 40 gallon tank housing a few softies and LPS. Things were going well until a timer malfunctioned and dosed over five hours several hundred times more alkalinity than normal. Came home to a clouded tank; precipitant was a mess.
All my parameters were around natural seawater. 8.5/400/1350 with a pH of 8.0
After the overdose, pH was 8.6 (at least*), Alk 12.5, calcium 300 (at most*), 1150 magnesium.
*I say 'at least' and 'at most' because parameters may have been beyond range of test.
I dosed vinegar to fix the pH and then over a few days changed water and added calcium and magnesium.
Now, 5 days later, levels are back to seawater. No fish died, but the coralline algae that had started to take hold seems to have disappeared. Corals (zoanthids, toadstool, palythoa) appear unhappy. The zoanthids especially are raddy. Moreover, I've gotten an algae bloom.
It's as though my tank reset three months back. All I know to do, I've done. Is there anything else you may advise?
