Dye From Jeans Has Run

blondie21

HELP....have just lifted daughters clothes from w.machine to find that the dye from a pair of jeans i also washed has run into her yellow cardigan leaving a blue marble effect on the yellow cardiagn. i checked the label on cardigan and it said wash all dark colours together....she just got it at the weekend and has only worn it once.any ideas ?

squeaky

Hiya, there's a thread hidden away somwhere about dye runs. Hang on a second while I find it

here it is ----> Click Here

ancasta_2

a bit OT but i bought a brandnew pair of dark blue trendy jeans when Mr Ancasta and me first for together... i had worn them all night out clubbing and when we got back to his for the old you know what for the first time, i peeled off my jeans to reveal sexy underwear, and turqoise legs and tummy. The dye had seeped off my jeans onto my legs from the heat and stuff from clubbing. i wish the world had opened up and eaten me but he saw the funny side of it.... so did i.. evetually.

calleyw

Don't you soak new jeans in salt and that is suppose to set the dye.


Yours

Calley

ladygrey_2

I always wash new jeans by themselves for the first few washes

kittiwoz

"Wash all dark colours together" is just a standard wash label but if you think about it yellow isn't a dark colour. Of course that only came to me after I ruined a lovely bright yellow t-shirt by washing it with my jeans and turning it murky. Yellow should definitely go in a whites wash. And if you wash jeans inside out it then leached colour tends to get recaptured by the jeans, plus it helps stop the colour wearing where they get rubbed against the drum.

Bit late I know but I have no magic tips for getting the stain out. Maybe a comercial stain remover or rewashing seperately with some gentle bleach?

Queenie

kittiwoz wrote:

"Wash all dark colours together" is just a standard wash label but if you think about it yellow isn't a dark colour. Of course that only came to me after I ruined a lovely bright yellow t-shirt by washing it with my jeans and turning it murky. Yellow should definitely go in a whites wash....

I wouldn't class yellow as darks but most especially not whites either.

Now I know I'm old fashioned :laugh: because I still separate my washing into hand/machine, then, whites/colours, then subdivide the colours into: darks, lights and betweens. Yellow would hit the colour/lights pile

kittiwoz

I just seperate into whites (and lights) and dark colours for the machine and seperate handwash. I am a single, no kids, poor student and get a service wash for £7 so I make sure it's a big load so I get my money's worth. If I was going to start seperating into whites, lights, inbetweens and darks it'd take months and months before I built up enough stuff to make it worthwhile! I've never had a problem with yellow dye leaching out though, they seem to be quite fast. I think it's more the nature of the dye than the depth of the colour itself. Seems to be black, blue and red on cotton that are the ones to beware of putting in a mixed wash. I don't think there's any reason yellow can't go in with the whites unless you put bleach in.