Results of New dye jobs

[Fatman]

Got my Veniards Fly dye for Xmas and got to using it today. These are the little tubes it comes in, it only calls for a 1/4 of a teaspoon with a quart (liter) of water, and there's a whole lot more left in each of the tubes.


Fl. Green


Fl. Orange


Fl. Red - disappointed with this one, may try and re-do them but think I should have just gotten red.


Purple


Insect Green


Fl. Yellow - really happy with the way this one came out


Nice packed quart bags of each


Looking at getting the Fl. Pink

[Redge]

Nice job!! Was it fairly easy to do?

[Fatman]

Real easy. - heat your water to boiling, put a 1/4th of a teaspoon of the dye in take some of the hot water put it over the dye, 1 tablespoon of vinegar and mix it up good. Then pour your boiling water into the jar, stir and add feathers, I've seen where it says to soak your feathers and I've tried both ways and I like them soaked. .

[ifish]

Really nice Fatman. I wondered what you were going to do with all those feathers. Interesting how only the wing stem took the color. I bet you get it figured out as usual! Thanks for sharing.

[Cray]

They are all nice but I really like the way the Orange and Yellow turned out. Those are going to make some nice tie's.

[Don G]

Doug, you do pretty work. Thanks for sharing.

[STUMP HUNTER]

Very nice outcome Doug. The red does look like the orange, surprising.

[z520tom]

Really good work. Thanks for sharing. I am sure some of us here will try this because of you sharing it will us.

[Fatman]

Thanks All!!

z520tom - I waited for 3 years before I took a chance on doing it!!LOL I just kept trying till I got the colors I wanted. I learned a lot from other folks who were good at it, and passed on what they knew - just going another step with the Veniards plus they had Fluorescent colors!

Stump - yeah I think I'm going to re-do the fl. red, I kept the fuzz on the feathers as I read about a new pattern on Fly Anglers on-line that uses the fuzz in a fly and though since I'm dyeing the feathers get double duty.

[skeetbum]

Good results Doug.