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Hi Rebecca, I was wondering if you ever kettle dyed a roving by bringing water, dye and vinegar almost to the boil and starting at one end of a roving, slowly adding it to the pot until it's all in there. I'm trying to find a way to dye a roving so it looks like an ombre colour of dark to light. Do you think that would work? I'm new to dying wool and roving.
I just found your channel and I love your energy! I can tell you're working with a ton of experience and knowledge, but still have the joyful experimental vibe of a kid mixing potions in the backyard. This is so fun to watch while I weave!
Recently dyed primaries like this and similar left behind dyes which I used dip dyed a skein ended up with a very similar colour way to your yarn mop. Having not long watched one of your glazing videos thought I’d try it over the top. Chose a plum/maroon colour . It turned out beautiful. !
im not sure why, but the sockblank gave me an idea. Yknow how in a long ago video you made self striping yarn by dip dying - but you had to wind really really loooooong loops to your skein. What if you knit a thin’ish tube (could one of those crank knitting machines make a narrow tube?) and wound a ‘skein’ from that? Im picturing it solving the problem of winding that long looped skein (tangles!) and also thinking the resist marks could be very pretty too. I have no idea WHY that just popped into my head 😂😂
I made an icord once to do this! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8gVhtboFlV0.html I'm never doing it again, it took me HOURS to make the icord, lol.
@@ChemKnitsTutorials that looks a tiny bit familiar. maybe when i first started watching? Oooh and you knit a swatch too! awesome. interesting that there are small hand cranks for icord. 🤔
I love the bright because I'm slightly color blind and muted colors can get lost on me a bit. The blank looks like summer fun, and the yellow didn't get overtaken! Woohoo!
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I am completely flabbergasted that you only have 58.9K subscribers, specially after 10 years. What is wrong with people? Other, "useless" channels have millions of subscribers. I realize that not as many people dye their own yarn, but nonetheless, this channel is so much fun. If every subscriber recommended you to only two friends, you'd already have three times the number. Come on subscribers, let's spread the love. You are a wonderful person, an amazing teacher, inspirational and fun to watch! Thank you :)
I used this video as a tutorial; I dyed some yarn for friends but it came out a little brighter than one friend might've wanted, so I overdyed with some black and it came out STUNNING! Now I need to fight off the urge to glaze the rest of the yarn. 🤣Thank you!
Hey from France !👋🏻 I’ve been following you for a few years, and thank you for accompanying me in my dyeing experiments ☺️ I have a problem I can’t seem to solve at the moment: the pigments (Jacquard) are not fully absorbed by the wool and remain in the dye bath, and I also have some bleeding when rinsing the wool. If you have any ideas on what I could try to improve this, I would be very grateful. See you next time 😊
I'm not sure what technique you used, but some colors are more prone to bleeding than others. Sometimes it is a case of too much dye. If the bleeding is dark, I would add the yarn + acid into a dyepot, bring it to a simmer, and then remove the yarn while there is still dye in the dyebath. Sometimes this might help. If the bleeding is minor, then try adding a little vinegar to the rinse water. Let that sit a bit and then try rinsing some more. Sometimes that helps. Good luck!
Sometimes I'll twist them and cary them up the side of the work if there are only a couple of rows between color changes. Otherwise I might clip and weave them in.
The yarn wouldn't have had the impact without the greyish colour, it gives a depth to the other colours as well. I'm imagining it knit up with a navy/blackish yarn and looking like northern lights. (Yeah me and a million other people are kind of obsessed by the Northern Lights right now.)
@@ChemKnitsTutorials I have seen some amazing ones here in Calgary including the stereo typical wave ones, they were so bright to the naked eye last night.
Not intentionally, but it is pretty close! I dyed yarn and crocheted a bi pride flag for a teen in my life a few years ago. It was wonderful to be asked to create something so special for someone. <3
Hey been binging your show for a year or two now, love you, you’re a wealth of knowledge. Was wondering if you’d be interested in doing a segment at the end of your videos where you show an old dye and who ever purchased its finished object they send you a picture of. I’m often so curious to what these end up as and when i first started watching couldn’t imagine what they would look like knit up. Could be a thirty second thing with a link to to old video and a picture. Might be a fun way to help promote your Etsy too. Keep dyeing girl thank you!
This is something I would love to do. I have photos from people sometimes and I often forget to share them - or I lose track of them because they cross my social media feed too fast. I am working on a few "dyeing to knit" videos where I work with my own hand dyed yarn, but I know that's not the same thing.
Thank you! 😊 Honestly I'm a little glad that the neps didn't dye, since there wouldn't be a way to dye ONLY the neps and not the rest of the yarn. I am glad that I tried, though!
I'm not much for pinks or salmons most of the time (except hot pink, IDK why) but that skein turned out really nice. It reminds me of a really beautiful ombre icing job on a fancy cake! Especially once it was twisted up around the tongs, made me think of icing rosettes! Dangit now I want cake. I used (I think it was) a package of purple Tintex on some grey mostly acryclic wool blend but it did do something, it's a bit subtle though. My first experience with trying to cake-dye! and maybe when it gets a bit chillier I'll figure out what I'm going to crochet with it. I figured it was worth a try as I've had Tintex and Dylon both do well and badly with synthetic fabrics and grey's a bit boring for me. I'm thinking maybe a blanket wrap, essentially a rectangular blanket with a slit down the centre so I can wrap it around myself when I'm cold. We used to have a woven poncho made like that and it was a lot more versatile than the ones with just the slit in the centre where both the ends were connected.
Sorry about that, I meant to include it and forgot. It is now in the descirption under "ITEMS USED IN THIS VIDEO" (I'm commenting again because sometimes RU-vid doesn't like it when I add links in comments.)
When the RIT dye instructions called for adding soap, I wondered (there goes Sid, wondering again!) if it's to increase the pH, in which case adding acid might be counterproductive. Then adding the soap-or baking soda or whatever-might reduce the absorption by the _wool_ but increase it on the neps. Maybe?
