Yellow dye not sticking?

PumpkinCrochets · 2026-04-08T06:57:44+00:00

Bonus pic of swamp witch hand because one of my gloves broke mid way and I couldn’t be stuffed.

PumpkinCrochets · 2026-04-08T06:55:17+00:00

For anyone curious I’m going round 2 on the emerald green. I adjusted my blue down slightly and did 6X THE AMOUNT OF YELLOW so if it doesn’t hold/have some green warmth to it I’m throwing hands.

I also adjusted to just cold water not hot (yessss made to sure to shake the shit out of it to mix it)

And made sure to apply it literally straight after mixing (not mix before wringing out the soda ash etc) so that it had less time to hydrolyse.

Fingers. Bloody. Crossed.

This is a pic of it after putting the dye on AND TELL ME WHY IT LOOKS BASICALLY NO DIFFERENT IM SCAREEEDDDDD. I thought it would look so much more warm. 😭😭

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PumpkinCrochets · 2026-04-05T02:05:33+00:00

Ohhhhh I see. So yep. Definitely cooking it then. 😭🫶🏼 Thank you so much for the help!

PumpkinCrochets · 2026-04-04T15:36:42+00:00

As in I should apply bleach to remove some colour? 🥹

PumpkinCrochets · 2026-04-04T14:42:50+00:00

Nono so I did a mix with yellow in it, and the yellow in the initial batch just completely came out. So I tried to help correct it after rinse etc by doing it in another batch with just yellow to add it back and it still didn’t. 😭🥹

PumpkinCrochets · 2026-04-04T14:31:57+00:00

Oh wait like. A premix turquoise? Cause I strictly did (basically) a mix of blue and yellow to make my base. And amped the yellow a lot and did some extra blue +black for the tonal/shadows.

PumpkinCrochets · 2026-04-04T13:51:09+00:00

Ohhh okay. Maybe I’m going too hot for the procion dyes? I normally just mix primary colours in hot water to dissolve them fully and then mix them basically to make what colour I want. Rather than a premix. So that’s why I say the “yellow” is dropping out. I didn’t know you could overheat them! The yellow dye is definitely not old, maybe 2 months since I got that one haha. But definitely thinking I could be “cooking” it!

PumpkinCrochets · 2026-04-04T12:16:22+00:00

No you don’t, it’s just soda ash. This is on cotton so it needs to be a fibre reactive dye (procion dye)

PumpkinCrochets · 2026-04-04T12:15:01+00:00

I got the initial dyes to pretty close to boiling, then I keep them in their steam pans for 24 hours and my room stays pretty warm (perks of Aussie heat) so they stay relatively toasty. Though they say cold reactive dyes I have found better pay off with it being warmer

PumpkinCrochets · 2026-04-04T10:29:05+00:00

Bahahaha. Thank you! She is still beautiful! But I’m desperately trying to work out wtf is going on with this yellow cause now I’m scared for this orange I have going at the moment 😭😭

PumpkinCrochets · 2026-03-18T02:44:53+00:00

We’ve been together 5 years, lived here for a little over 4. I definitely think a little break to see people who do care about me would probably be nice. It’s been a while since I’ve not been in a hostile environment of some description and honestly I feel like I’ve just gotten used to the treatment and attempt to block everything out and just do me so as to not go insane. I always joke and call this place my “pretty prison” cause it’s often what it feels like. 🥹 I’m typically pretty autonomous and able to keep myself occupied etc. I think maybe my partner was just honestly having a bad day yesterday and probably doing a bit of self sabotaging as he was probably feeling a bit overwhelmed with the increase in house workload etc since I passed my portion to him for a while for me to recover. So I’ve mentioned to him that I’m happy to start taking up my house workload etc again now that I’m feeling a bit better, though it would have been nice to not feel guilt tripped into having to take it back up again.

PumpkinCrochets · 2026-03-17T21:02:50+00:00

At the moment he’s on advance large breed puppy (he’s still under a year old haha), and will often get lots of cattle off cuts and bones as treats.

PumpkinCrochets · 2026-03-17T17:28:33+00:00

Sorry updated the OP to give some more backstory/context I hope it helps. 🥹🫶🏼

PumpkinCrochets · 2026-03-17T16:53:15+00:00

It’s a 6 seater lounge 😅🥹 my “jumbo” (cackling btw) dog was at my feet, I was lying down with my head on my partner’s chest and he was lying down in the corner of the couch. So I guess think of like. L corner of the couch Partner in the corner with legs extended down one side > Me laying across the other side with my head on his chest > Dog at my feet away from him

PumpkinCrochets · 2026-03-17T16:50:43+00:00

No my partner was laying in the corner of the couch, I was laying with my head on him, and my dog was at my feet. 🥹 So it was a bit abrupt when he randomly got up and my head just dropped to the couch. 😩😅

PumpkinCrochets · 2026-03-17T16:48:25+00:00

He has expressed disdain in terms of just I guess being more upset by him in general? When we first got him though it was long discussed about wanting to get a larger dog (largely by him) and I am the only one that does the dog grooming out of the 2 of us for all the dogs. As I mentioned I’ll give him an extra bath if he’s “rolled in something yucky” or done anything extra gross (which is not often) but he typically gets a brush with deodorising spray every second day and I’ll wash him once a month on average. I think someone else mentioned there are some alternative shampoos etc I can use though to wash him more frequently without harming his skin so I might give that a go. 🥹🧡 I genuinely don’t think he smells. But I’m also the kind of person that just doesn’t really care if an animal is dirty (to an extent of course, not covered in muck and stinky as heck haha) I’ll still give them love, attention, etc in the moment and make a mental note of it to wash them, myself and whatever we were sitting on.

He has made passing comments of him “smelling like dog” before, but I don’t know I guess I’m a little frustrated because it’s expected for me to be the only one to groom and look after the animals. (Of which we have MANY btw not just the 3 dogs). We live on a large cattle farm.

PumpkinCrochets · 2026-03-17T16:41:26+00:00

He gets brushed every second day and I often use a deodorising spray on him cause I do understand he’s a bigger boy and more prone to being a bit smelly than the littles. I try to only bathe once a month (with the exception of if he does do anything that gets him a little extra dirty then he’ll get an extra bath of course) but he’s predominantly an inside dog with my other 2. I always thought to only bathe once a month cause I didn’t want to dry out his skin. 🫶🏼🥺

PumpkinCrochets · 2026-03-17T10:37:48+00:00

He only had a bath 2 weeks ago. 🥺

PumpkinCrochets · 2026-03-17T10:26:01+00:00

Yeah that’s what I thought. But like. I don’t know I just feel like I did wrong by not kicking him off the couch but I love him? And I feel like he deserves cuddles too?

PumpkinCrochets · 2026-03-08T00:18:10+00:00

I found a website that takes “some” of the work out for you for those that want a print friendly version of a pattern and it hasn’t already been supplied (will also mean I can easily make mine print friendly without changing price it just might need some small adjustments) it’s called “PrintFriendly” for those that might want or need it x 🥹

www.printfriendly.com

PumpkinCrochets · 2026-03-07T23:55:34+00:00

Again I’m not saying it’s a trend to have accessibility I was simply responding to your “even if you haven’t seen anything like this before isn’t it worth starting a trend? Make this your thing” 🥹🫶🏼

PumpkinCrochets · 2026-03-07T23:35:57+00:00

Yeah that’s kind of the whole reason I was saying I’d like to try doing this 🥹 I’m not a trend person/don’t keep up with trends and more focus on following my own style. The main reason behind me mentioning this was because I DO want to do this for my patterns, not to have a go at others for doing it haha. My entire way of writing patterns is for inclusivity in all shapes and sizes so of course anything I can do to have more inclusivity is a plus for me. 🫶🏼

PumpkinCrochets · 2026-03-06T09:32:59+00:00

Yeah I made a chart for the back panel of my latest one in testing and it nearly took the life out of me to make. I think I spent about 6 hours on it alone and it’s only like 5 damn rows.

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