oops! KA dyed soakers bleeding onto pfs

[DeerMother]

I think I dyed this in a 2 liter on a 100 degree day w/ some kind of red ka and half water, half vinegar. May have been some salt in there. I did rinse after I dyed. Now it is a soaker and the red is bleeding onto the pfs. It is the wettest parts of the diaper that have the most bleeding. What can I do to stop the bleeding?

[cristeen]

I would probably pop them into a pot of steaming hot water on the stove and let them soak for 10-15 minutes to help set the dye, and then rinse, rinse, rinse - if you have a white bowl, I'd use that so you can see when your water turns from pink to clear. What I've found is that the yarns I heat-dyed tend to run less than the ones I dyed at room temp, but also reds tend to release more dye than any other color at the rinsing stage.

GL

[moondiapers]

it sounds like you didn't exhaust the dye. When you KA dye there shouldn't be any color left in the dye water at all, the wool should soak all of the color up into it and out of the water....leaving behind milky looking water. I'd ease the soaker into a pot of really hot, almost boiling water and let it sit until the water is cool...check to make sure the water doesn't have any color in it.