How to dye bedding?

[carrielou2007]

Not sure if I should have put this in housekeeping...

I have cotton cellular blankets and cot sheets that have been hardly used (as I bought far too many ) in pale pink and wondered if I could dye them blue for next baby?

I know I could just use them anyway, or buy more but would like to give this a go to reuse them? I'm thinking try it in a bucket if it doesn't work never mind. Any thoughts of what I should get pretty please???

Yes, dying cotton is really easy. You just get one of the machine dye packs from the hardware shop, and follow the instructions. You need a pack of dying salt which will be sold there too. It all goes in the washing machine and comes out dyed.
I got loads of used baby clothes from my SIL which I tie dyed: vests and things that had gone a funny colour. I get loads of compliments on them. Its not at all messy, you just run the machine again to clean it.

You'd probably have to go for a dark blue, as pale blue over pink will give you lilac. I've used Dylon machine dye a few times, my most recent success - bright violet jeans . But I have had a few disasters, curtains that went patchy. Also stitching often stays the original colour as it's sometimes polyester.

I just use the cheap bags of table salt (I think you need about 500g), our hardware store doesn't sell dying salt.