I totally identified with the deviled eggs. Stuff like that always confused me, even though I didn’t clue into that particular conundrum. That was hysterical. Can’t wait to see how the braids spin up. Thanks for the interesting video.
I just watched Max Miller's Tasting History episode about Deviled Eggs yesterday, so I understand WHY now, but I never heard "doubled eggs," and I think I'll stick with that from now on! Makes sense to me! Hugs, Evie!
My daughter called them "doubled eggs" when she was really small. It stuck and that's just what we call them now, it makes WAY more sense than deviled eggs 😅
This is so fun! Ever since I was a kid, I've always been bothered by throwing away the extra dye after coloring eggs. This evening I shoved a fistful of fiber in each of the cups instead. We'll see in the morning if it works!
It actually went really well! Some colors stuck more than others, but overall I'd say it was a smashing success! I spindle spun and tablet wove it, and it still looks great a year later! I usually just spin cheap raw undyed fleeces I find on Craigslist, so it's fun having some color in my stash now!
I was buying a pack of deviled eggs from a Mennonite market once and they were labeled as “egg salad halves” so they wouldn’t be called “deviled.” Unfortunately I ended up asking for “deviled eggs” anyway out of habit and that probably was not appreciated. 😅 Karma got me back when I dropped my strawberry pretzel salad on the floor immediately after that 😫 the roving is so beautiful!! Thank you for sharing!!
lol. Love your "Calcifer" spindle, very creative name. "Howl's Moving Castle" is an awesome show! Your yarn looks fabulous. It is fun to watch your "adventures" in fibers!😀
You and Rebecca at ChemKnits got me through learning how to do new crafts during lockdown. A heck of a lot of other people in our weaving/spinning guild as well.
Ok -- huge thanks for this fun video! I bought 1 lb of Cheviot from PF (great sale) and the dye tabs (again on sale) and I went for it … Amazing! I have 4 braids of roving that I certainly would have bought myself!
Love your snarky comment about using Easter egg dyes. I solar dyed a double-stranded hand-knitted sock blank last year using Easter egg dye tablets and I LOVED the results! Easy to knit matching socks. I also agree with your pronunciation of Cheviot. Heard this pronunciation from my Scottish relatives when talking about the Cheviot Hills.
Thanks so much for your videos and helpful knowledge. I’m very much a beginner spinner and I’m just “dying” 🤣 to add my own color to the wool. I wasn’t sure if it was better to dye the roving or the spun yarn. I’m sure there are advantages to each! Oh what a lovely rabbit hole! 😂. Now I just have to be patient and wait for Easter for the dye kits.
Haha, I dyed all the raw eggs in the house with stuff I found in the kitchen (I lie, I had to buy the beet specifically), beet for red, red cabbage for blue, turmeric for yellow, onion skins for orange, and combined turmeric and red cabbage for green and beet and red cabbage for purple! I think only the onion skin would work on wool, though the turmeric will keep all surfaces it touches bright yellow for a few weeks till it fades. And for future reference, I think a tablespoon of vinegar will deal with a whole teaspoon of baking soda, at least that's the ratio that recipes I have use and you don't taste either the soda or the vinegar after. Looking at the colours afterwards, I think it works both ways for spring and fall but to me the blue is what makes it more spring-y and if I were going to try something similar I'd probably try to get the blues closer to the yellows and greens. Lovely though, and making me itch to get my hands on some wool and learn to spin it, since I now have a small 3D printed loom (some assembly and dowels required). Any wool garment I make is going to have to be lined or an outer garment as even the softest wools give me the itchies, I can usually wear cashmere next to my skin but even that sometimes gives me an itchy spot. And I can totally relate to the deviled eggs thing, I thought like that a lot as a kid, took things very literally.
A RU-vidr named Tasting History with Max Miller did an episode on medieval deviled eggs, and he explained that the term 'deviled' referred to the fact that they were heavily spiced
As a child I actually thought that it was scary that they where from the devil it didn’t make sense to me either and I didn’t try them until sometime in my teen hood, man do I regret waiting they are soooo good!
The fleece is from Cheviot (Ch as in CHeese) sheep. The Cheviot hills are on the Northumberland Scottish border and I have a friend who has a flock of these sheep, on the English side of the border. His sheep run wild (hefted) on the hills for most of the year. The fleece is amazing when washed and made into peg loom rugs. I'm soon buying a drum carder so I can card some of this wool (amongst others I have) to either sell as carded, to use as a 'softer' fleece for the peg loom rugs or to possibly dye and spin. I loved this video of yours which showed how easy it can be to hand dye tops (or rovings), thank you Xx
Love your story about the " doubled eggs". Truly a good name for them! The roving dyed up wonderfully. Not at all the insipid pastel colors I was expecting. The blending made super shades, and what fun putting the tablets here and there. Will check out the egg color sales on Monday and try not to buy those poisonous Peeps as well.....
Thank you so much for this video! You brightened up my whole day with the introduction and why easter egg colour-dyeing could be interpreted as historical! And I actually wanted to look for leftover easter eye dye on Tuesday (Here in Germany Monday is still a holiday and the stores remain closed so Tuesday it is) to slowly start dyeing with simple tools. Your braids look so so good! I think they have a bit of an autumn-y vibe! Have fun spinning them!
love your correlation of the eggs and the religious celebration of easter. have thought the same at times why they were called "deviled" eggs. have used egg dye to color wool. its fun !!!
Great idea for using the egg dye for wool! Your colors are beautiful! I hope you’ll share the final spin. Enjoy your holiday, and I also struggled with the concept of deviled eggs at Easter too!
I agree about struggling with the 'deviled' eggs name and the confusion it would have on my 4 children when they were small. So we started calling them 'Angeled Eggs' instead. The kids are adults now and still call it by this name today. Edited to add a cooking link on the history of 'deviled eggs' :) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QQCMYDw-L3E.html
That dye came out so amazingly well!!!! Thank you so much for showing such a fun video!! Edit: the deviled eggs bit at the end had me cracking up 😂 oh how funny
👹‘ed eggs vs doubled eggs. Too funny. My family never really did the deviled eggs thing so it was new to me as an adult. They are surely delicious though …
The colours came out so beautifully! I don't know if a knack for dyeing is a skill that one can learn or if one just has to have an instinct for it, but I sure don't have it. 😅 I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product you make with this wool! 😊 P.S. I also thought they were called "doubled eggs" as a kid - it just makes so much more sense, lol!
This was awesome! I was smiling and giggling through the whole thing. The braids came out so beautifully! It will be exciting to see how you spin them up and what the yarn becomes afterward. Happy Spring Holidays to you as well! (And the bonus material-laughed till the tears came 😂😂!)
Thanks. So fun. I have fun dyeing with Kool Aid but never thought of this. I dye with KA in the summer when it is really hot outside. I do it in gallon zip lock bags laid out in the sun on the lawn. I use the sun for heat source.
Hello Lady Jillian! I am a newbie in spinning with Turkish drop spindle and I have lots of merino wool that's ready to be spun. The weight of my spindle is nearly 80 gr (it's heritage from my grand grandma) and the shaft is 28 cm. It's hard for me to adjust the thickness. I want my yarn as thin as possible because I intent to make a two ply yarn. What do you recommend for me? By the way, huge thanks for your videos because you are my teacher ❤
This was so fun, and your braids are beautiful! I suddenly really want to try dying fiber and I’ve not really been interested in dying before. Loved that story at the end 😆
Love the colors, maybe not traditional Autumn but definitely "end of summer" vibe when you know apple picking and Pumpkin Spice is just a few weeks away.
I sure would like to know who called those divil eggs 🥚? A friend and I did dye wool fiber bleed with Easter dying kits one year, but we put the pill 💊 in water 💧 first in cups. Then, I added the color little by little to the dye bath. I like the way you did it. I might try it 😏 sometime.
😂 I'm right with you on the double eggs because of the same theory on the devil's food... Why on Easter? 😳 It's just crazy weird 🤪 Guess it was a balance... I don't know.
I’m also going to have to go through my fleece in storage as I was able talk my boss into allowing me to harvest the fleece from one of our research sheep. He and his brother were North Country Cheviot/Border Cheviot crosses. Called it my secret agent fleece as they were tag no.s 006 and 007. Though about sock yarn at the time and should go for it.
Thanks for this video. This year we didn't dye eggs. Over the last 4 years, I always dye yarn or roving with the egg dyes, but had to skip it this year. I love how your braid turned out. I will try this next time. Usually, I split the fiber up and dye individual colors, using oven bags in a countertop roaster. I use a different wool color each year, my favorite was on a dark gray roving, the colors are jewel toned.
LOL. Well, a lot of "deviled" foods are called that because they have mustard and/or hot pepper in them (mustard can be pretty hot!) I'm sure the idea of having deviled eggs at Easter is just because they taste so good and they use up a lot of hard-boiled eggs. :D
This was a very fun video! It is the first time I thought, himmm, I might want to dye some wool. I loved how it turned out. PS My little sister used to sing "Bringing in the Sheep" because what the heck was a sheave anyway?
Ha ha about the deviled eggs. Since twice baked potatoes are done in a somewhat similar fashion (taking out the filling and adding it back in with extra ingredients) I think doubled eggs makes way more sense 😂
What a great idea! 😍 As soon as the holidays are over (Easter Monday is also an observed holiday in Germany) I’ll hit the local drugstore and get egg dyes. 😅 Here, it’s usually small envelopes with the dye tablets, and it just costs a few cents. This will be so much fun! Thank you for sharing this idea! 😃 I’m curious what you will do with this wool. 🙂
hahahhahah...doubled eggs. i love it. while i was listening to this video, i was dying eggs with onion skins i have been saving to use on some wool. I now have solid gold doubled eggs! happy easter :)
I think I might get an Evie ban at home because first you got me into spinning and now I'm starting to think I really need to get into dye... I love how you did this project and how it turned out. Magical. Interesting that the brand name is "Paas", as in Dutch Easter is called "Pasen" and the adjective form is paas- . The word for hare (our Easter bunny is a hare) is "haas". So we have a paashaas! Probably some Dutch heritage in that Paas company. And I loved your very logical misunderstanding! When I was little of course they didn't get into detail about what virginity actually meant, and the Dutch word for virgin is only one letter off from the word for stomach, so I thought the "virgin Mary" was the organ in Mary's belly that held Jesus. It certainly was a bit of an adjustment when I found out what they really meant. It seems sensible, by the way, to eat the devil's eggs, after all you don't want them to hatch...
Doubled eggs? I'm going to call them that from now on! I always love your videos, thank you for helping my spinning journey along - I might have to go grab some egg dying stuff next...
I'm so excited to see how that wool spins up! It's not at all what I was afraid it would turn into. There is a lot of white but it could definitely work for a scattered cloudy fall day.
Easter egg tablets also try to balance the intensity and colors. I've tried drops of food color before and some colors would only take 2 drops and others would need 6 and still weren't bright
Love your videos. What does devilled mean in cooking? According to The Oxford Companion to Food, "devil" is a culinary term that first appeared in the 18th century as a noun and then in the early 19th century as a verb, "meaning to cook something with fiery hot spices or condiments." The hot spices or condiments most often referred to the addition of mustard and cayenne ...
Omg they are beautiful I’ve been sitting on some skeins of off white yarn and food coloring for years trying to get the courage to try well thank you for giving it to me definitely going to do it can’t wait to see how your project comes out thank you so much
I've used Easter Egg Dye before, but always single colors and in a discarded 2 liter soda bottle. Colors are bright and colorfast. Bought new dye yesterday. I can't wait to try multiple colors! How deep are your pans?? Thanks for a great episode!
Cheviot is AWESOME for socks. I chain ply it, and it wears amazingly well. Don't tell the experts, but they even go through the washer and dryer unscathed.
Have you ever thought about selling some of your spun yarn? I really love your channel, but I don't spin so I'd love to buy a finished product so that I can crochet with it. I don't know how your pricing would be or if it would even be worth it, but it's something I've thought about while watching your channel
ROFL!!!! We had deviled eggs yesterday lol!!! That story made me snort haha!!! Your necklace and earrings are lovely btw... thank you for the content!!!
When I saw Gorbachev and the fall of the Berlin Wall in my kids’ history books I decided anything I wanted from my childhood (1980s) could be a history lesson.
Hi Evie! A lovely video as always! Thank you for staying in touch with your five friends through a difficult time. We had a difficult time two years ago waiting to buy our home, and you got me through it! Thank you for the joy you brought to me and I'm sure to many others!
as a kid I used to eat deviled chicken sandwiches with cheese doodles and Moxie (New England odd foods, but as good as a fluffernutter if you ask me), So I knew a deviled something was a preparation, like grilled or boiled etc. but yes it does seem odd to eat a deviled prep after church.
