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Well that took all day haha. I dyed all these guys with turquoise idye poly. I find that it can give results varying between blue and green (sometimes a great deal). I think it has something to do with the temperature of the water. I couldn't get the pot extremely hot, so ended up with slightly more green or seafoam tints to the grey, which is totally fine. 

As you can see, I did several attempts at each colour. Since the dye can vary so greatly, I like to do at least 4 of each, so that I can select the one that looks closest to the character. Having these cool greys extra will certainly come in handy down the track. I find varying greys to be pretty often used. It's nice to have them on hand. 

  • You can see how I dye in full in a past video I made (dyeing minky). After dyeing and washing each piece, I brushed the nap out while still damp. I let them dry naturally, and tomorrow will iron them to get out any remaining crinkles . 

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Anonymous

Oh I noticed that color thing you mentioned! If I recall Joey thinks certain pigments may activate at different temperatures. When I was mixing dyes for a purple a while back I noticed the temp alone changed the hue, as if it weren't hard enough to get an accurate color aha.

Anonymous

As My Little Waifu says above - pigments react differently at different temperatures. Purple for example is made up of blue and red pigments but since red bonds easier than blue, at cooler temps the purple will be more mauve whilst at hotter temps it would be more true to the expected colour. The amount of bonding agent used with each batch also has an impact - it helps the harder to bond pigments along, so if you use even a gram less than a previous batch you'd have a more red look when doing purple. If you ever need to do a large batch of the exact same colour, I'd recommend weighing everything to make sure it's the exact same formula - the dye used, the bonding agent, the material and the water and to make sure it's at as close the same temperature as possible. The true tricky part here is the minky - its synthetic material so it doesn't take to dyeing as well as natural fibres do. Even if you try to keep things the same - lengths of minky from different bolts might have slightly different chemical compositions in the fabric and still have different results... Who said dyeing was fun?? 😂

NazFX_Studios

Totally makes sense. It seems that the blue doesn't come out as much at the lower temps.

NazFX_Studios

It definitely looks like the blue doesn't bind at the lower temp. Getting a huge pot up to boil is pretty much impossible. I think I let it heat for 3 hrs and it just never boiled. Good enough I guess XD