Some days things just don't turn out the way you expect. Both shirts were dyed in chocolate brown dye. The pirate one is what I would expect. The ninja one is a nice olive green. The dye was from the same container. I thought maybe the mixed up dye solution had sat too long, but I had a problem with the fuchsia not taking in batch of black and purple at the same time. The black was a greenish gray and the purple was blue. All looked good, but weren't what I was trying for.
The best guess I have is that it is related to the water softener and how long between recharging and dyeing. We moved in April and there is hard water here. The softener recharges based on the date rather than volume of water used. But I'd dyed since we moved and it turned out so I didn't think much of it.
I think the next time I'm going to do a batch of shirts I'm going to have to either manually recharge the softener or order some add in softener.
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