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Hello! Welcome back to another episode of Make Thrift Buy! And as always, this is the

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show where YOU send in items of clothing or
accessories that you’ve seen on the internet,

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and then I do my best to recreate them. Now
a couple of people have challenged me to try

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and do ombre tights! I've actually owned a
pair of these back in the day – but this

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was back in 2012, and, let’s be honest – most
tights do NOT last for 4 whole years. Which

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definitely makes spending $20-$50 on a pair
of ombre tights – which is what I found

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these kind of tights online for – pretty
prohibitive for most of us.

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So, I’m going to try and make some ombre
tights for myself!

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Let's get started!

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Okay, the obvious things that I needed for
this project were:

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- Thick white tights
- And dye.

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I’m using this Rit dye which is made for
synthetic material, which is what you will

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need if you’re dying something like tights.

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Alright, so! Welcome to my kitchen, which
is where I will be doing my dyeing.

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The first thing I did here was to rinse out
any “finishes” from my tights by soaking

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them in cold water for about 5 minutes.

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Another thing that I’m going to need for
dyeing the tights is a large, stainless steel

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pot. Now… I just wanted to cut in and say
right now – check back in at the end with

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me about this; I don't think that it's a particularly
good idea to use a pot that you're planning

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on using for cooking later on, but I'll go
through that in a bit.

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Anyway, I filled the pot about 1/3rds with
water, and I turned my stovetop on to a medium

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setting so that my water would heat up to
around 75 degrees Celcius, or 167 Fahrenheit.

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I also put some gloves on so I wouldn’t
dye my hands orange, but in retrospect, rubber

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washing-up gloves would be better than these
so that you’re also protected from hot water

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and potential burns.

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Now, you DON’T want your water to boil.
I got the water in the pot up to about 75

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degrees Celcius, or 167 Fahrenheit.

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And now, the dyeing begins!

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So, with this dye you’re supposed to use
about 1 bottle of dye per 2 pounds of fabric,

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I guess if you want a really strong colour.
But I only want to dye half my tights; I also

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didn’t have scales... in the end I kind
of figured out that I would need about 1/10th

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of a bottle for one pair of tights.

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And in this whole process, I'm not going to
be particularly accurate - I'm just going

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to kind of eyeball it as I go.

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The first thing that I did was to put a really
tiny amount of dye into my pot – so about

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a couple of spoonfulls – and then I mixed
it around.

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Then, I took my soaking tights out of the
sink, wrung out the water, and carefully plopped

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them into the pot for literally about 20 seconds.
This will dye the entire tights a kinda pastel

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peach colour, which will hopefully make the
ombre more subtle later on. While doing this,

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I held the top end out so that I didn't burn
my hand, and I also tried to mix them around

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a bit so that the dye would get to every part
of the tights.

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And then, I dumped them straight

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back into that cold water, rinsed the dye
out, and then I wrung the water out.

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Then, I tipped quite a bit more dye into the
pot, and I mixed it around.

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Now, here I’ve set up two pots. This pot
will be for the half of the tights that I

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don't want to dye anymore, while this pot
will be for the other half of the tights that

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I do want to dye a stronger colour. So I put
the top half of the tights – the part that’s

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going to remain light-coloured, into this
empty pot. Then, I carefully put the rest

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of the tights, from the toes up to about just
under halfway, into the dyeing pot.

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Then, I carefully stirred the fabric around, to make sure that the dye is getting to all of

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the fabric!

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And then, after they were in for about 30
seconds, I pulled the tights out about 1 inch.

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Then, I stirred, waited another 30 seconds,
pulled them out about 1 inch, stirred, waited

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30 seconds and pulled them out another inch.

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After doing this a few times, it’s time
to add more dye to get a stronger orange as

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we move further down the tights to create
that nice gradient ombre effect.

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So, I poured in a couple more tablespoons…
or so?, stirred to mix the dye evenly, and

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then I immediately pulled the tights out one
inch. Then, I stirred, and I waited about

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1 minute this time, and then I pulled them
out yet another inch.

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Then, I poured in more dye, stirred, then
left the tights to sit for about 30 seconds

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this time, pulled them out about an inch,
and then finally, I left the very tips of

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the tights to soak for about five minutes.

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When the five minutes was up, I carefully
removed the tights from the dye bath and brought

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them over to my stainless steel sink.

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In my sink, I immediately rinsed the tights
with cool water. Now – this is important

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– I rinsed the tights with the coloured
bit at the bottom and the lighter part at

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the top. I didn’t want the dye to run back
up the tights into the lighter sections, so

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it’s important that I rinsed them this way!
I stopped rinsing once the water running off

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the tights is clear.

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Then, according to the Rit Dye instructions,
I needed to handwash the entire thing again

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using mild detergent in warm water. Then I
rinsed them off again in cool water, and FINALLY,

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I let them dry, by hanging them up like this
so that the dyed parts are at the bottom.

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Now, I had a bunch of dye left so I also decided
to also try and refresh a scuzzy old pair

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of white tights that I have owned for years,
and also, a pair of white knee-high socks!

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And with that, I was done!

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So, how did I go?

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[music plays]

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So, that was it! My conclusion is:
[scissor snipping sound effect]

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Alright – the issue of using a cooking pot
to dye things. Now, I had googled this really

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briefly before starting the whole dyeing process
and the Rit website themselves said that it

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was okay to use a cooking pot as long as you
cleaned it really well with bleach afterwards,

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so I was like "great! Let's go then!"

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It was only afterwards that I did some more
googling and um – scared myself a little

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bit with stuff that other websites said – because
lot of other websites said that you should

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NOT be using this pot again for cooking.

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So, you know, to be safe, probably don't use
a pot that you plan to cook food in afterwards!

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That's my disclaimer.

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So yeah - I totally ruined our one good big
cooking pot. Oops!

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This was the first time I ever used fabric
dyes before and – apart from the whole ruining-my-good-cooking-pot

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thing – this was a really easy project!

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The total cost of the first pair of tights
came out to about $10, and the pair of tights

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and socks that I already owned even cheaper
still – and after doing three pairs I still

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have about 2 thirds of this bottle left! And
now, I pretty much want to dye everything

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ombre. What are some other synthetic materials
that I'd be able to dye orange? If you think

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of any, let me know in the comments down below!

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And I now have a designated dyeing pot as
well. Yay!

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