to dye things, clean object, boil some water (it's probably better to keep the water boiling throughout the process but that's hard to do), throw the stuff in and wait a couple of hours. The longer you keep it in the darker it gets, the more powder you use the darker it gets. I dye stuff outside since it can be mes. So i just kept multiple pots of water boiled and ready to go and poured those in when it got cold.