Two youtube crashes later, I can finally comment! It always Gets me that you can get such a vibrant yellow with just onions. Congrats on your "new" sweater :D
As I tend to wear py clothing for a loooooooong time but don’t relish wearing faded clothing and as I tend to hang my washing outside to dry whenever possible, I’ve learned to overdye. Because no matter how careful you are about washing, about the detergent you use about turning clothing inside out for washing and drying etc, there is always fading in the end. And I don’t see any reason for throwing out clothing simply because it’s faded. Loss of shape, maybe. Irreparable holes and tears, yes. But fading isn’t reason enough. So out comes the dye pot. Our sweater looks so good again! And never mind those towels. Even if they’re ood. They’re still capable of drying. LOL
This video came at the perfect time! I’m knitting a sweater with my onion-dyed yarn and needed to dye more yarn to (sort of) match. Unfortunately, I forgot to mordant the new batch, so it’s just a peach color. Sadness. I’ll be over dyeing with the proper mordant this time, haha ❤
Looks great and I love the variation in the colours :) I've always read to pre-soak the item you're going to dye in water for a few hours or even overnight before mordanting or dyeing, to help it absorb the colour/mordant more evenly and also to help it sink down in the pot xxx
@MijnWolden That too. We used to dye our Easter eggs with them and mom would ask for them at the store, they would bring us out a big bag and we would have enough for our eggs without needing to save
Hooray! It's yellow again! It looks as good as when you first made it, or maybe even better! Looks a little more golden yellow than the first one if I remember correctly.
Hi Jente, I hope you're OK xx ❣️❣️❣️ Wow, your Sweater looks amazing over dyed, back to yellow. Happy Dying, Spinning and Knitting Fibre Friend 🎉🎡🐑🥰 Take care, stay safe and warm 🌞☀️🔥 Lots of love and Big Hugs Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🐕
Yay for over dying! I too have started saving onion skins in case I decide to attempt this later this year. Question, though - did it fade from just wearing it or possibly washing? Admission … once I block a sweater, I rarely wash it again 😱 unless it needs to be reblocked or it gets a surface stain of some sort. I always have a shirt underneath them and don’t see the need to regularly wash them. Nonknitters are appalled when I admit that! Am I alone?
Nope, it might have been washed once in the year that I have been wearing it. Just some airing out next to a window after I've worn it and it's good to go!
I will have you know English will always fail. it is a bad language. 1 out of 10 do not recommend speaking. I love the golden yellow that yellow onion skins make. your sweater once again looks like sunshine.
It looks to me that the differences in the multiple yellows is more caused by being crumpled in the pot and not moving around to have more dye exposure, but of course doing that with a wool sweater is extra risky! I think the variation in color is cute, and it's one more aspect that shows it was handmade. I don't recall what this was dyed with initially, was it always onion yellow or was this yellow from a different source?
I love following along with your adventures using vegetable dyes and this sweater so much that I have plans to do so myself. I'm trying to collect enough onion skins to dye wool, but most recipes suggest using half the weight of the fiber in onion skins to produce a strong color. Since your sweater weighs about 450g, does that mean you collected 225g of onion skins?
