A little chef’s trick when sprinkling anything in powder form: the greater the height you sprinkle from, the more even and spread out your distribution will be. The lower the height you sprinkle from, the more concentrated the distribution will be, but the more precise your application will be at the same time. When using strainers, the finer the mesh, the finer your speckles will be. Using a makeup brush or a paint brush tapped against a stick will give interesting effects as well. You can experiment with powders or with diluted dyes. Dip in the dye, if needed tap off sole excess, then tap against the stick over whatever surface you want to apply to. Edit: I just thought of something: if you happen to have a sous vide stick and a vacuum sealer, an option might be to put your speckled yarn in a vacuum sealed bag, seal it, then pop it inside a water bath at a high temperature setting and leave it in there for any time you want. It might even work for solid dye jobs to do multiple skeins in different colours at once: insert the soaked skeins in different bags, add diluted dye, use the immersion method to remove as much air as possible (use heat resistant ziplock bags), immerse the bags in the warm water bath. Mmmmmm… my mind’s positively teeming with the potential. Great temperature control, no scorching, and absolutely no possibility of felting as there’s no agitation either. I’m a hand spinner and this offers possibilities for dyeing raw wool as well.
What ratio did you do for the water and citric acid presoak? I've read that for wool and vinegar you do a 1 part vinegar to 3 parts water. I really enjoyed watching you explain the process and how cool all of the yarn came out. :)
Thanks for this video! I live in Japan and hand-dyed yarn is very rare here. Also, it's too expensive for me to import yarn from overseas. I found some Japanese dye and will give this a try. Very cool to watch the whole process!
Hi i love the spoon dye and the finger dye one question i have a sky blue lion brand yarn and want to change the color to pumpkin spices what do i do to get that color
I know your question is a year old… but for any overdyeing, my educated guess is to take into account the pigment(s) already present in the yarn. The easiest is to get yourself a colour wheel from the art painting section of an arts & crafts store. In your case I’m assuming that with pumpkin spices you mean oranges and browns. I’m afraid blues will never be completely cancelled out by those colours. You’ll get a more subdued, brown/grey tinged colour at best. Perhaps a green tinge. Adding red pigment(s) will migrate it more towards browns. Adding yellow(s) will have it go more towards greens. In paints/pigments, orange will mainly consist of the combination of yellows and reds. Add blues and greens, and you get browns/greys. Add reds to warm it up. Add yellows and you get bright(er) greens. If your blue already has a bit of red/purple in it (purple = red + blue) you get a warmer undertone. A possible way to figure out what colours you get is test dyeing. Another way to get at least an idea is to play around with watercolours or inks on white paper. Do some wet-in-wet tests and do some wet-in-dry tests. Wet-in-wet tests mean you mix your colours without allowing the paint/ink layers to dry between colour applications. Wet-in-dry means you paint your new colour(s) over dry colour, either something you painted (you get a bit of dilution of the original paint or ink unless the paint you use is permanent once dried, which isn’t the case with watercolour but is the case with highly diluted acrylics) or paper that already has the colour of your yarn. No idea if this information is still useful to you, but I just thought I’d share.
I learned that some dye powders are mostly salts, so I literally cut my dye with table salt 1:1 for speckling, so it goes on lighter - you can always add more, but you can't take it away once it's on the yarn!
The yarn came up beautiful... I wanted to know if I mix the yarn with the water in a spray bottle and spray it on the yarn would that have a speckled effect also?
What type of Disney magic is this? I'm watching a video of someone who looks remarkably like Emily Osment, who sounds like Miley Cyrus, but is teaching a video on how to speckle dye yarn!
Hi there, I was wondering, if the dye exhaust before my water is simmering, do I have to wait for it to simmer to set it, or it's already set if it's exhausted? (My water is hot just not simmering)
In my experience, most of the time the color is set once it has been exhausted. Light pinks and blues exhaust super fast. I just take it out of the water and let it cool before rinsing and hanging it up to dry
"Comfortability"? How about the noun "comfort"? Is it really necessary to make up new words? "Depending on your comfortability..." or "Depending on your comfort," or "Depending on your level of comfort..." Does using made-up words make your yarn dyeing "more good"? Or maybe, god forbid, just "better"? How about "more prettier"?
Hello! I really enjoyed your video! And I would like to share it with russian-speaking audience. Do you think it's okay if I publish your video on my channel with dub in Russian. I'll add a link to your channel in the description box.
Hola, muy buen tutorial, consulto, que medida le pones de ácido cítrico?? No consigo dharma en mi país, anilina Dylon , me servira, es para teñir telas
