My tie-dye always washes out

I love to make tie dyed t-shirts. But, whenever I make em' the color always washes out. I hate it because they always look so good before I wash them.

I know I'm following the directions perfectly. I thing it might be the detergent I use. It says "Bleach Alternative"

Any Suggestions

 

Do you rinse the clothes after you dye them? If it's any consolation, that happens to me too, but after about a hundred washes. How quickly do yours fade?

 

mine fade after the first wash

 

what do you set the dye with? Or maybe it's the kind of dye you're using?

 

i dunno fuck all about tye dying but that sounds bad...ha..
sorry...good luck..

 

drumminmama is the tye dye guru round these parts

 

davidrig,
just helped out at my grandgirls school making tie-dye t-shirts. we used a new kit you can get at target. it worked great and the colors seem to stay, just follow directions, everything you need is in the kit.
hippiewise

 

I just got the stuff from wal-mart and mixed it the way it said on the directions, i let them sit overnight before i washed them, when they came out, they had faded consederably.

 

Drumminmama

you scare the hell out of me when you say the word Rite.

you once made me feel so bad about using rite to dye a pair of pants that I threw them away.

I have come along way in the dye dept.

I owe all of this to you and the scorn you place on my PM box

RITE DYE SUCKS

 

thats what it was RITE

 

rite dye sucks and that is why your shirts lose all of there color.

there is a website called darmatrading somthingruther some mam will have the link I lost it when my laptop crashed and bit the big one.

 

www.dharmatrading.com

they're great from what I hear, and they'll tell you everything you need to know.

 

see my trusty sidekick saves the day again.

 

Dharmas is great dye by the way.
But also do you soak your shirts in soda ash before you put the dye into them? My friend learned how to dye by following the dead and he uses a shit load of soda ash, then lets the shirts dry out and become hard. Then the shirts just suck up the dye.
Then put them in plastic bags and let them sit for at least 2 days.
Rinse the shirts.
Let the shirts soak in cold saltwater for a few hours and then wash.

I've done it this way and the colors are just amazing. I trade my stuff at shows, and the people who even mass-produce the stuff will be my stuff cause of the soda ash treatment, the colors are just amazing.

 

Thanks, appreciate all the help. I'm prolly gunna di it this weekend, I'll post pictures.