I've made some mistakes with my heart fabric. I painted the pink and the peach bits and waxed over them and then decided to put all of the pieces into an immersion dyebath of madder and cochineal, hoping for a good red. After I brought the bath up to a lowish temperature (145 degrees F), held it for an hour and let it cool again, the color I got was just lovely. Unfortunately, if the color is good when the fabric is wet, that means it will be too light when it dries. Rather than letting it dry and reviewing the color, I put the stuff back into the mordant, and then dyed it again. As soon as I put it in the dyebath for the second time I could tell that the wax was way more porous than it had been before, but I pushed on and went through all of the steps again. I thought I would just leave them in the pot through Easter since we would be away and that would give the dye a chance to adhere well. On Easter morning I woke up thinking about something I once read. Apparently if you feed madder to cows it will turn their bones red. I suddenly felt uncomfortable about leaving my waxed pieces in madder and when I went down to check them I found the wax had indeed been compromised. There is no white on the pieces now, only dark brownish red and coppery pink. The mottled bits where the dye broke through the wax are really intriguing, but the contrast between dark and light has been confused and the color changes are almost gone. The results aren't ugly exactly, but much more monochromatic than I wanted. I'm now trying to decide if I should keep going, and if so how, or start over. I'd like to be back where I was after the first dyebath. I need a Wayback Machine.like Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman on the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.