Dye help please

[jintie]

I used Koala Bear Cold Dye on an oatmeal coloured cotton/linen, and it went a yellowish mustard colour. I hoped it would be more like coffee. Any ideas to dull the yellow tinge without buying another dye?

[Iminei]

Mustard is very in this year.

[jintie]

True, but in my case, only if you want people to ask if I am feeling ill

[Radiofan]

You could try tea staining.

[WildAtlanticWay]

Isn’t Koala Brown cold water dye quite a mustardy colour anyway?

Either wash it in a hot wash with biological powder to try fading it a bit or re-colour it.

[snoozi soozi]

@jintie you could try a dye remover or colour run remover, no idea how it will turn out I've never done it. Probably best to give it a good wash, hot as it can take, maybe a squirt of bleach? Sorry, all ifs and buts, just got to risk something radical 

[jintie]

Thanks everyone, I will ponder on the suggestions before rushing in as usual. I did a lot of dyeing in the past, with variable results. Never managed to get an article completely streak free. Oh, I tell a lie, I managed a really spectacular purple bra!

[hernibs]

As we dyers all know you can never be sure what things are going to turn out like.  I recently bought a bright pink woollen sweater off ebay - turned out it was too big for me so I 'dyed' it with a dark brown dye, cold water one....it turned out a dull light wine colour and surprise surprise my DH is wearing it...I did question it with Dylon and they said the way the wool was finished was probably the reason it was not brown.....one can only try but I usually have good results....and dyes aren't cheap, are they so we want them to work the way we think they should......off to watch rugby.

[BrendaP]

The base colour has an effect on anything which is dyed.  I'm not surprised that a bright pink sweater overdyed with brown came out wine colour - assuming you mean red wine .

[jintie]

Well, as the wind and rain eased off for a bit today, I tried bleach, then rinse, then strong tea. It's not so mustardy now tht it's dry, so I think I will hang it outside when the sun is stronger later in the season.
PS- modified to clarify- sun bleaching hopefully will fade the colour.
(I have found sun effective on tomato stains).