Happy Thursday everyone! Hope you're having a great week. If you'd like to fall further down the FFTP/yarn dyeing rabbit hole, here's the playlist for you: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-z3Azq4q3KJA.html&pp=gAQBiAQB
I really love how that turned out - nothing like a deep tonal teal! I’m sure it feels good to fulfill your promise and not have it weighing on you anymore. Thanks for sharing your process. I have a better understanding of the dyeing process now.
I recently stole a sweaters worth of knit picks yarn from my sister's stash. I'm looking forward to over-dyeing it so that she doesn't recognise it lol. I don't feel any guilt about this heinous crime, she doesn't knit anymore and her stash is enormous. Plus it's an ugly dull olive wool that deserves to be prettier. The real crime was the original dye job. 😂
Hi Tayler. This was so interesting! Your clarity about all facets of dyeing such as keeping dye pots separate from any cooking pots was informative for novices. Your colour instincts are admirable and the final colour...I mean, WOW!!! Always a joy to watch and learn with you.
I can just say WOW! What a lovely color ! It was a pretty green before but this looks so elegant now. ❤ Thank you for sharing this experiment with us! I hope the owner of the yarn is happy with the new color!
This was so interesting to see, especially after watching Kay Jones show her dying process, which is very different from yours. I'm not planning to dye any yarn and just assumed that everyone was basically doing it the same way, so this was an eye opener! Fun stuff.
What a gorgeous new color! I love watching you figuring out where to go colorwise! I've dabbled a little in dyeing andd need to get back into it! Thank you for the inspiration Taylor!!
Whenever I look at hand dyed yarn I always think…wow, it’s expensive and a sweater would cost me a fortune! This video gave me a better appreciation of what it takes to produce beautiful hand dyed yarn.
Beautiful color! Love how it turned out. Also something to consider if you don’t want to go down the acid dye rabbit hole, you can actually use food dye and vinegar instead. That way it’s food safe and you don’t have to get special pots and stuff. You can use your normal cooking pots. That’s how I started out dying yarn.
This was absolutely fascinating! I’m obsessed with the final color! I know this viewer is dying (get it?) watching this! Definitely worth the wait! Thank you for sharing this with us! I love watching pros do their thing!
What a fun video!! Thank you for sharing this process. I have been fascinated by the process, but no real interest in trying it, so it was great to watch you do this. The color turned out just beautiful
OMG, that color turned out stunning! Absolutely love it! ❤❤❤ Thank you for sharing the process. I have a new-found appreciation for the hand-dyers that I love.
Beautiful color. Now I'm looking my yarn with different eyes because sometimes I buy yarn for something and a while after I see it and think why the hell I have this color?. 😅.
Your hand dyeing process is Art and I can’t help but believe the recipient will feel, as I do, the gorgeous additional depth of color represents the depth of all your experience and mastery of color added during the intervening years. Well worth waiting for! I’m amazed!
Would love to see your personal over dye experiences in future videos. That yarn is gorgeous. I crocheted a summer tee in a light demin blue colour one year. Looked good on the skein and the tee fit perfectly but the colour looked horrible on me. Overdyed with a dark navy. Because it was a blend of fibres i couldn't remember and i was a newbie, it has some tonal qualities to it and it's perfect. Beginners luck.
wow that color is so beautiful!! Sort of reminds me of a night sky with faint hues of aurora borealis green. love it! It was so fun to see a little bit of the dyeing process, very fun to watch
Your dyeing is magical! So beautiful. What an artist you are! Encourage the yarn recipient to share her finished product with the knitting community. I remembered enjoying the videos you have posted in the past of you at work with your dye pots.
Just WOW! The yarn color is spectacular! Such an interesting view into the whole dyeing world. I have no desire to do it but it is fascinating to watch it being done. Thanks so much!
I said I wasn't going to say it, but I totally fibbed: That yarn is "to dye for"!! Seriously, though, beautiful color and I'd say worth the wait. Thanks for showing us a bit of the ins-and-outs of yarn dying. Marvelous!
Isn't it amazing, or possibly horrifying, that a mask is probably the one thing all of us would now have to hand?! I wouldn't have had anything suitable if you'd made this video when you first got the yarn. Now I know exactly where I could lay my hand on one. One thing that still blows my mind about yarn dyeing is the water temp involved, given that when we have knitted a thing with the dyed yarn, we're probably all going to be careful not wash it in too-hot water. Even getting close to "simmer" boggles my mind. The final product was (as everyone has said!) gorgeous. I'm a teal fan anyway, but the transformation was remarkable. This may be a daft question, but if you had been starting from bare yarn, would you have had to add a green akin to the original to achieve the same result?
I agree! It’s crazy to think that everyone has a medical mask (or several) somewhere in their home these days. At least now we’re prepared for the occasional yarn dyeing. 😉 As for water temp, it is pretty wild. So when I dye untreated yarn, I maybe max out the temp at 175-180 and just go low and slow. This allows for gradual uptake without the need to raise the heat Ask that much. With variegated colorways or speckled ones, I take the temp up about 15 degrees and really watch the agitation. Felting happens at extreme temps for extended periods of time and when there’s a lot of agitation. As for the color, you’re spot on. If I were doing this deep teal green from a collection of other colors (ie not using a teal dye) I would need to include a true clover green (or something close) to get that rich undertone and those clover highlights.
You mean hank, not skein. Skeins are those things you buy, say, from Patons, or maybe Walmart, that are wrapped a particular way, and you can pull from the center, and they’re not roundish, they’re long and skinny. The thing you dye is a hank.
Yes. Technically-speaking, you’re absolutely right, but at this point “skein” has become rather colloquial and more often than not is used to refer to any put up of yarn other than a ball or “donut”. “Hank” is rarely used so I’m just keeping things relatable. 👍
Thank you for watching! And that’s a great question. It’s about the warmth of the black. The dye is made of a good mix of base colors which include reds and russet browns lending the final black a pleasing and versatile warm tone. 🖤
@@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS Thanks for the input on that. I've always used True Black (or whatever Dharma calls that other version!), but I can see having more colors involved would lead to a more interesting outcome!
Oh my goodness, this colour is SPECTACULAR... also now I have to find a yarn in that colour here in Europe because it would be the ideal colour for a project that I want to make... D'OH!
I've recently started playing around with yarn dyeing. I've binge-watched all of your dyeing videos and have learned a lot. However, I know there's a ton I don't know. How did you learn yarn-dying? Just experimentation? Or are there books you could recommend? Thanks for your videos!
Thank you for watching! I learned mostly through experimentation (which you can watch a lot of that here on the channel), but there are some great books out there. One in particular is this one: amzn.to/3riCTHs
I joked with my hubby that dying yarn is a future thing… as a chemistry major 30+ years ago… and this speaks to me. I’m in a group of ladies that knit purple blankets for a grief ministry outreach… making some beautiful purple hued yarn… after I finish knitting a few with yarn I can find easily. LOL.
Are you referring to the original color or the color I ended up with? All green contains blue as it is a mix of yellow and blue, however the original green has far less blue than I was imagining, hence the reason I added more blue in the end. The color wheel is just a tool to demonstrate how you can use color theory to help match colors or develop new colors. It’s not going to be an exact match. 👍
Very interesting to see the process! That new colour you achieved, Tayler, is swoon-worthy!! Teal is my favourite colour so I'm envious of that lucky viewer! 😊
Thanks for another great video Tayler! That was so fascinating to watch, and you've inspired me. I've had 500g of a merino-silk blend languishing in my stash for years because I didn't really like the color after all. It's been weighing on my conscience because it was pretty expensive and it feels way too nice not to use. Maybe I can give it a new life with your inspiration! Fingers crossed!
❤the final color. So glad u did this process. And it didn't take over an hour, TY. Is it easier to take product to dark vs light? Does diff fibers react diff w one dye lot? Thanks for sharing.
OMG thank you so much for the tip about not pre-soaking in acid, I always wondered why I always get splotchy/ uneven results, this is such a game changer for me, thank you so so much!!
Tayler, this was so fun! I was a hair colorist for the past 30 years and it was so enjoyable playing along with your color choices. The end result is fantastic! You’re a beautiful gal and you completed a wonderful promise. You’re inspiring me to start dying some yarn. 😁💕
Beautiful final color! I have a hank of Cascade Eco+ wool in a Christmas green that I should try to over dye. Eek, makes me nervous to think about. Were all those mini skeins in that one hotel pan of dye? If so how the heck did you keep them from getting tangled up?😳
Wow! This was so interesting! Harking back to the early days of the pod, vlogging in your dye studio. 😊 So glad you got around to this and hopefully the viewer will absolutely love this color! 🎉
WOW, what a great video and Wow, what a beautiful over dye end product!! So interesting to get a glimpse into your thought process and the actual dying process. Thank you for sharing. Would this process work for a finished knitted item?
Google must be reading my mind again because I am in the planning stages of an overdye project...some of it includes a green to teal/turquoise shift. I never would have thought to add grey or black, but that truly made the final color rich. Thank you for the ideas!
Thank you for sharing this information. I was gifted a ton of yarn that I would love to use, but the colors are all hideous. You explained the process so clearly that now I have hope!
This was fascinating. I have no interest in dying yarn but I still love learning about it. Same with spinning. I have no interest in doing it but love learning about it. Your videos are terrific. Thanks
I have a lot of apple green cotton yarn. It's a lovely yarn and great quality but i despise the color. Any sugestions? I want something around grey, some unevenness is ok
