Dyeing Navy Project

Early this year, I chanced on some heat tech pants on a post-winter sale sometime around springtime. It was a brown one which I am not really that find off. My basic colors to go to is blue or black and not brown. Two neutral colors are enough to build my limited wardrobe on. It has 81% cotton and the rest is a mix of acryl and rayon. I had to double check that coz my ultimate plan was to dye it in black so I can have one black pants in the summer and another in the winter. In between those seasons would be either wear it with heartech leggings or none. 

After months of putting it off since I usually thought of doing it at night, I finally did it today. I could never get around to it if it's at night since the sink will be full and all the other reasons. 

 

My initial plan was to dye it to black and another faded denim shirt to blue. But then I realized that it would be a bit tedious to do two different colors at the same time because I have a limited containers so I decided to do both in navy blue. I'm guessing that they would have different hue of blue because the other one is brown to start with. Anyway, I can always dye the pant to black once I get tired if the navy blue. I still got my black dye on hand. 

For future references (the instructions on the pack was in any different languages EXCEPT English):

5.8 g pack of Dylon dye powder 

500 ml 60 deg lukewarm water

30 g coarse salt (not the fine one)

It's good for 250 g worth of clothing. 

And about enough hot water to soak the cloth in. I just used the hot water setting from the tap.