hi guys it's Katie from duck in yellow calm and today we are discussing how to dye polyester with synthetic dye and to help us here's my friend Kyle yaysies so cow why are you drunk why are we dressed today well for Halloween I decided to assume the role of a fallout vault dweller for those that don't know fall into video game and the vault dwellers are sort of the main cast of characters part of the distinct uniform of a bulk boiler are these blue coveralls so I got coveralls but these are khaki so the objective for the evening is to make them blue so that well we have acquired synthetic dye so I have um here some Rit dye more in sapphire blue and I'm hoping this achieves the result I want and you have a more pink color like you super why do you have pink well for my Halloween costume I'm going to make go into the good witch so I found this awesome vintage I guess wedding dress for under $1 and we're going to see what we can do cool and we need to do this because this this outfit is about 50/50 poly cotton blend and we don't really mystery fabric yeah so we're going to experiment with synthetic dyes this evening and hopefully it turns out great I'm sure it will I'm feeling confident you don't cool let's do it so here we have our flight suit which is our poly cotton blend we've prepared our area just in case we get me die we've laid down stuff that we don't care about so they'll be ok we are preparing our water we've got our temperature here because the recommended diet mperatures doing 180 and boiling so we're spoiling it on up we're going to prepare the flight suit by washing it off first and then also getting it completely wet you want your items to be wet so that when they are put in the dye the dye can absorb absorb evenly all throughout the garment so we're going to get it wet and we're going to stick it in so I am just wetting the entire garment and you just want to check and make sure there's no like dry spots anywhere what we're going to do first is we want to make sure that we have enough water in the pot this is a 16 quart pot so it's probably got about two two and a half gallons in there now so we're going to stick this in this water is already at temperature so I've got tongs so once we we dip it in and see if it moves around freely we can take this and put it in another pot just so we don't like carry hot garments around the house once you figure out if we have enough water then we'll actually start applying the dye and then testing the colors so let's go ahead and stick it in let's wash okay so just what we obviously don't want to overflow the dye because we're trying not to make a mess so we have extra water I'm just going to add it until I'm pretty confident that we're not going to make any more of a mess as I squash oh we're making a mess yeah it's okay cuz it's just water part of the process is stirring this garment for 30 minutes once it's in so that'll also help it spread all around I think we're good okay I might add a little bit more because we're not really making much of a mess but otherwise we're doing it very nice heat it up some more so we've got the new water quantity we have achieved the proper temperatures once again the instructions say use one bottle for two pounds earlier we weighed the garment to be about 1.7 pounds you're also supposed to double the quantity for The Pollock yet for the more polyester it has and this is half polyester so we figure one bottle should just about do it using very exact math so I would've said just dump it in but he wanted to so we're just gonna go for it hey interesting all right well here's another well we got trees would be so since we don't really know how this is going to work we have two fabrics here this one is 100% polyester and this one is a hundred percent cotton so we're going to do in my garment is half in half so we figure the shades between the two should work so we're going to take a look so yeah there's a little bit of a difference okay let's label this plate that's not really good so I think either way we're fine because that's not awful and that's also not awful and we're going to be in between the two yeah so I think we go for it I think we do to you all right this thing is nice and kind of hot too still still all right this is the first ten minutes matter most so oh my gosh you can hear it sizzling good actually I don't mind the color honestly and we just start to so look it's already look it's turning blue not that up I guess so we are at the 30 minute mark the coveralls have taken a very weird probably haven't be able to see this but I've taken a very nice shade of blue so I think I'm oh there's the timer now three two one cool and we actually didn't really make that much of a mess so you can see our material has been dyed now and we're just going to rinse it off and you just keep rinsing the material until the water runs clear because right now you can see the water is running blue so you just keep rinsing it and it doesn't really matter if you rinse it in hot or cold either is fine I'm going to use cold because Oh after you rinsed out your garment we are actually going to stick it in the washing machine just have a really light cycle without detergent just so you get out any of the excess dye but you couldn't get out this roots really well especially for a costume where you're gonna be wearing it for a long time that way you don't get dye on anybody on accident work yourself yeah like he would look like a really good Smurf but that's probably not what he was going right but that we were going for uh yeah yeah we're done so yeah we're uh came out good I was now super blue I am and it turned out pretty much the shade that we wanted I couldn't really ask for anything else um this was with just the one bottle of dye and like three gallons of water I guess so it's interesting to note some of the things it did and sort of did not die all the zippers took which was cool the velcro really took yeah so that's really super blue the zippers didn't really and there will be photos that you can see but they're they're still sort of the same khaki color I'm not really sure what they're made of that they didn't take and the thread kind of didn't take as well but I like it so and we already ran it through the wash so all the colors stayed so yeah this was this was a success so and we actually since we had a whole vat of blue dye we dyed something else so what's what's the deal with this so this is the curtain it's a hundred percent polyester and so is all of the thread and you can see this the same dye that we put both these in and how different they took because this is the poly blend and this is 100 percent so but the thread the threading took a bit darker yeah the braiding took darker we can see it's still not the same color at all which is just kind of interesting so always test your materials we were doing this just as an experiment but if we wanted a darker blue we probably could have put more dieted yeah and this probably could have gone a little bit darker but I didn't want to break into one of the other bottles so this will be perfectly sufficient and we will continue our adventure with this particular outfit so thanks for joining