Club Obi Wan

BLEACH !

I've ruined two safari shirts trying to bleach them to make them lighter, both turned yellow. After closely watching Raiders I'm convinced Indy'd shirt was more light grey than tan.

Oh well, I still have one thats a the best one and thats the one I'll wear.

George

PS. dont use TAN Rit dye in the bottle, I tried to use a capfull to have a give a white shirt a hint of tan and that made it more yellow! Would someone please tell Yellow I'm not interested in beings its friend.

Sorry to hear that Indiana George.

I used to have a considerable talent for uniformly discoloring my shirts by accident.
I ordered a Wested shirt recently - and am pretty happy with the color.
I'll probably order an Indy Magnoli custom shirt next.

Best Regards,

Oh alright, Jerry, I'm in ...
... Soylent red and Soylent yellow, high energy vegetable (die) concentrates, and new, delicious, Soylent green (die).
The miracle food (die) of high-energy plankton gathered from the oceans of the world.

George, is this the shirt you were trying like crazy to lighten, but couldn't? And it finally gave to bleach and now it's uneven. That really does bite, sorry to hear it. (But you got me laughing w/ that last bit..."Someone please tell yellow I don't want to be friends." )

This poor shirt..first I bleached it, then I dyed it tan, didnt like that so i bleached it again, too much yellow, then I tried to cover the yellow with a shade of brown, too dark, so I use Rit color removal, now its white again.
I swear when I was done I could hear the shirt panting.........

George

Indiana George wrote:[...]the shirt panting.........

Commiserate with Dalexs; he is the king of destroying shirts. You should have seen what he’s done to some of his LL Bean shirts! Actually, he might have a method for fixing them.

Stone is a good colour to start with!

Regards
Luke

Hemingway Jones wrote:Commiserate with Dalexs; he is the king of destroying shirts. You should have seen what he’s done to some of his LL Bean shirts! Actually, he might have a method for fixing them.

First of all, I have NEVER destroyed any of my shirts. I have heard from many that have (especially using bleach) but I learn form their mistakes and move on.

I have been unhappy with redye results and started over, but never destroyed. Ok, off that soapbox...

If you have the the shirt down to almost white with maybe a hint of yellow, you need to dye in in Pearl Gray. That's where you wil get the proper stone color from.

RIT dyes tans and browns tend to have a lot of red in them, so you have to be very careful using those colors. When I do a shirt, it has maybe a tablespoon of dye in the mix.

I use the gray to really get the proper look.

Hope this helps. AND STOP USING BLEACH!!!

ok, thanks. I went to a bunch of stores and I never say pearl gray, does Rit make that? I'm just mad because I've had tons of time to order a Wested shirt and didn't. Thats goes for the pants as well. I could scream I swear! Oh well, next year I guess.

George

Dalexs wrote:

Hemingway Jones wrote:Commiserate with Dalexs; he is the king of destroying shirts. You should have seen what he’s done to some of his LL Bean shirts! Actually, he might have a method for fixing them.

First of all, I have NEVER destroyed any of my shirts. I have heard from many that have (especially using bleach) but I learn form their mistakes and move on.

I have been unhappy with redye results and started over, but never destroyed. Ok, off that soapbox...

Hope this helps. AND STOP USING BLEACH!!!

I'm sorry to muddy the waters with a little bit of teasing. I shouldn't have said that you were the king of destroying shirts; I should have said that you were the king of boiling shirts. -After reading about your research with the LL Bean shirts.
Anyway, just kidding with you, Dalexs.
Be careful, we may be on the same flight to the QM and I may have the aisle seat. That can be a long tedious six hours!

I've take to calling him 'O Steve Of Many Colours', but maybe 'The King Of Ritt Shirt Soup' has a better ring to it...

Just as a tip, look for RIT in the laundry detergent section.

Beware if he has you over to dinner.

HJ "What's for dinner?"

Dalexs "Pasta"

HJ "So, are you going to boil it in that pot?"

(The inside of the pot is stained dark brown from years of dye.)

Dalexs "Sure, adds flavor."

Dalexs your my hero! You saved my shirt. I used color removal and then made a pot of hot water with a touch of the pearl gray and it made it a nice stone color. I'm not sure how dark/bright to go. Some secenes his shirt looks very bright and others not so, but I settled for a nice medium.

Thanks
George

Good thing I bought two LL Bean shirts.

I'm going to try the dying thing tomorrow.

Indiana George wrote:Dalexs your my hero! You saved my shirt. I used color removal and then made a pot of hot water with a touch of the pearl gray and it made it a nice stone color. I'm not sure how dark/bright to go. Some secenes his shirt looks very bright and others not so, but I settled for a nice medium.

Thanks
George

I'm glad things worked out for you. I found that the pearlgrey is becoming hard to find. I usually can only find it now in speciality craft stores. But its worth having.

And for the record... that pot is stainless steel and I always wash it before cooking up a big bacth o' sauce!

I have a big steel pot too, can't believe how handly that thing is.

George

Thanks again

Indiana George wrote:I swear when I was done I could hear the shirt panting.........

George

Panting or laughing? Just kidding, sorry to hear about your luck. Try Try again I always say. Your bound to get it right sooner or later

GOOD LUCK!

What would happen if you *didn't* use a stainless steel pot or used an aluminum pot?

I probably wouldn't be cooking spaghetti sauce in it anymore!

(Its called "Stainless" for a reason )

Dalexs wrote:I found that the pearlgrey is becoming hard to find. I usually can only find it now in speciality craft stores. But its worth having.

If anyone's looking for Pearl Grey, I was in a "Michael's" today (nationwide craftstore in the US), and they had an entire RACK of colors of Rit - even the Pearl Grey, and they had a whole row of them. So they at least are still stocking that shade. (Picked up two to stick away, based on your advice. )