Dylon Dye Pod review
Give clothes and linens a new lease of life? Leave my machine clean? Let’s see if this Dylon dye pod lives up to the hype and enables me to get a new lease of life from things that would otherwise be heading to the charity bin in my latest review.
As a Textiles teacher I am familiar with dyeing stuff. Tie dye being one of the staple activities at Key Stage three. Ask me to describe the process to you and I will recall buckets of dye, stained hands, stained floors and work surfaces.
Basically dye on everything you don’t want to dye. I have never attempted to home dye anything in machine before as I was terrified that forevermore everything would come out of it a funny shade. This dye pod may be just the answer.
When this new method of machine dyeing popped through my door the other week I was hopeful. The Dylon dye pod promised to machine dye safely, cleanly and leave no residue in my machine. Winner.
I am sure that everyone has a few off white towels in their house. You know the kind? Good quality cotton towels that are still in great condition but now look a little more grey than they should do. I thought these would be perfect for bringing some new dye love to.
The process of dyeing the towels was easy. You weigh the dry fabric, one dye pod should do 600g of fabric. My towels were slightly over. Then put the damp fabric in the machine drum along with the pod with all the wrappers removed. Pop it on a 40c cotton wash and watch the magic happen! Then you run another wash with the pod removed and detergent added. I assume this is to clean the machine and remove any excess dye.
Dye pod results
I was amazed by the colour when I pulled them from the machine.
Don’t they look fab! I am really please with the results and my machine is clean too! I will definitely do this again with more towels. Who want’s boring off white towels anyway. I also have my eye on the youngest vests which never seem to get back to white. Keep your eyes out for a very colourful family in the future!
I used one of these Dylon pods, you put it in the washing machine, I was doing a jacket, to be honest when I was going through the .”.change” perspire was not the word, I leaked buckets and buckets of sweat it was awful,It still happens when I am getting ready to go out somewhere, It really was bad, even my dad bless him, if we were going out to lunch or something,he would just sit there chatting, and once he noticed it had stopped, he would say are you ready now. he never mentioned it, he knew I was on tablets for it, I still am, but dad has passed away since. But yes my jacket was awful, so I wanted to give it a new lease of life and it came out great, it really did, and I still wear it now.
I have used these many times and they are fantastic and everything always comes out looking great. x