OK I think, I think the temp might have been just a little too high. Im not sure I will let you judge.
LOL!!
(By the way thats a really nice color. )
Dose anyone think it will work if I dont keep the water heated and just do it in a large plastic basin?
Yes it will work; i've done t-shirts that way (and only with hot tap water and salt, no boiling) and it does stick (even if color is not as deep, you can still do it multiple times). Obviously anything would be better than melted keys...
The keyboard is unusable
put it up on ebay, see what happens
(kidding, but would be funny though!)
It took about 20min to get to this colour
IIRC from the instructions, 20 minutes is on the very long side; I remember even for t-shirts I think they only say about 10 minutes. I'll go out on a limb here and say what all geekhackers learned from this tragedy is to do it in short stages!
One has got some blotchy patches I'm not sure why.
IIRC, blotchy patches if not enough stirring (same thing happens with t-shirts; have to stir *continuously* else will get blotches...