Natural Dyeing with Black Beans - Ninja Chickens - Episode 63
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2019
- Thank you for joining me for Episode #63 of Ninja Chickens!
Grab your cuppa, your knitting, and join me for a spell! This Episode we'll have a natural dyeing tutorial, chat about current happenings, see the latest yarn off of my spinning wheel, and more! I hope you love it!
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LOVE this video!!! I have been cooking dyes all weekend💃 blackberries, yellow onion skins, red onion skins, red cabbage, concord grapes, rosemary, strawberries, avocado and soaked some blackbeans over night saved the water and cooked the beans and had rice and beans💃💃💃..love all the results used fabric pieces soaked in alum and some rust mordant..and tried baking soda in the red cabbage for an absolutely gorgeous blue😍😍..gonna use the fabric pieces in my journals. Thanks again for a fabulous video!!!!
Your dyeing weekend sounds amazing!!! So much color and amazing smells and magic!! I bet your journal is stunning!
@@NinjaChickens Oh my yes..my son thought I was cooking a feast..lmao..he said is dinner ready, I said nope but my dyes are🤣🤣
I used to be one of those only color fast dyes, dyers. Then two things happened, one a person asked color fast for how long? The second, a guild I belong to did a dye day and turmeric was one of the dyes. I played along and added my minis to each pot that people brought, but because I didn't expect the turmeric to last I just set it on the back of my dye counter. Five years in direct sunlight later, I grabbed it for a project I just needed a little bit of color for, the color lost was minimal, almost not noticeable. This year I am just experimenting with whatever I want to use.
That's fantastic to know! Thank you for sharing that!!!
Thank you, I loved this episode. I am fascinated by how dyeing works and the different ways it is done. The colours that you can achieve by small changes is amazing.
Love the black bean dyeing and the lovely shades you got. I have just ordered seeds for dye plants and super excited about starting my first dye garden! I live in South Africa and handwork/crafting is only slowly gathering interest and most people do not know what I am talking about when I mention natural dyes and eco printing! BUT I just got a 2 week project incorporating natural linen I have to dye with avocado! How fantastic is that. So I am hounding the Mexican restaurants tomorrow to gather as much avo pips and skins as I can to start the dye bath
Oh! I'm excited for you! I can't wait to hear how your project goes!
I love the darker sock blank, the blue is just right. Never new black beans are so versatile.
There is a night shift sweater pattern as well.
Amazing thank you so much from Tasmania
Really enjoyed this one! I hope your fall is a good one.
Thank you! You too!!
Very informative episode. Thank you for sharing your dying experience with blk beans :)
You are so welcome! And I'm glad you commented because it lead me to your channel when I was in need of a moments peace. I love the little videos you have posted so far.
I love the iron and alumin (sp) I am definitely going to have to try this!
I'm really in love with the tannin! I didn't think I would be, but it's a really beautiful golden brown!
For my birthday I have been given a natural dyeing book by Jenny Dean called 'wild colour'. I am hopefully going to start some dyeing soon and I'me very excited. I loved this video as I can just step into the kitchen and raid the cupboards to start. Thank you so much for sharing :)
That is a fantastic book! One of my favorites! Have fun and enjoy playing!
Responded earlier before watching the full video - your spun yarn is gorgeous. I'm thinking of doing the NightShift as well, but I'm going to do a fingering version with different Opal self-striping sock yarns. I'll just make mine longer so it ends up being a bigger shawl. Great idea for hand spun yarns.
That's a great idea for Opal yarns!!
I'm surprised at how differently the black bean yarn came out using the different mordants!
It's amazing what a different mordant can do!
Wow, this was super interesting. I didn't know black beans could do that. A fade with all four Blueface would be beautiful.😍 Love the yarn you spun.♥ I wish I was going to Rhinebeck🐏 and participating in the knit along. I have the pattern and I will make it out of rare breeds it's just going to take me a while. I haven't even decided what breeds of sheep I want to make it out of.🐏🐑 As always wonderful podcast 😃
That's exactly where I am with the Fleece Flight. I have the pattern, and I do even know some of the breeds, but it's going to take awhile to get everything spun up! Working on some Piney Woods Native right now. It's a lovely spin.
Gorgeous colors you got! I make black beans all the time and I really ought to try dyeing with them again. I tried once but got very disappointing results--a very light gray which I ended up overdyeing with copper. I wondered if my pH was off and that's why it didn't work so well. However, I just ordered some pH strips, so perhaps my dyeing will be brought to the next level!
YAY!! I'm interested to hear what you discover about your water and if you are able to get blues with beans next time!
I love natural dyeing. I experiment a lot. It’s been like a sauna in Miami so at the moment I have hibiscus, coffee grounds and avocado stones cooking in the sun in my backyard. The hibiscus is looking really good. I usually leave the jars out for a couple months.
Oh, those colors are going to be wonderful!!! Make sure to enjoy some cold hibiscus tea while you are at it!!!
thank you, this was great! I have been wondering about using black beans to dye and now I feel I have a better idea how it works and I think I will try it soon... wonder what would happen if you dyed the yarn once with the black beans, let the skein dry, then do it all again - so 2 dyeing sessions... wonder if that would make the color deeper or not....
Oooh! That's a great idea! Let me know if you try it!
Thank you for this video on dying with black beans! My sister and I recently tried dying with acid dyes and it was a lot of fun. We both hope to go on to natural dying. We are going to VLK Columbus - hope to get to meet you in person!
That would be lovely! Please wave if you see me!
Great tutorial! Thank you. Beautiful yarns. Could you have put more yarn in those jars and gotten the same color, or was this the correct amount of liquid per skein of yarn? Thinking of dyeing up a larger batch. This blue is so lovely.
I bet you could have put more yarn in to extract more color. There seemed to be a lot of color left!
Maria, this video was so well done! Informative and beautiful. Thanks so much for all you do and for sharing it with us.
Thank you, Paige!!!
Love the end results. Thanks for a very informative lesson using beans. Do you think cotton fabrics would take the dye well on Aida cloth for cross stitching?
I've not tried it with cotton. Will you let me know how it works for you if you experiment?
@@NinjaChickens yes I will let you know how it dyes on the aida cloth and linen.
Thank you for the episode Maria! Now, how did the stew turn out? ;)
Delicious!! And it made enough to put some in the freezer for a cold winter night. :-)
forgive my ignorance what is washing soda please great episode thank you
Washing Soda is Sodium Carbonate. You can usually find it in the detergent section of the grocery store. You can also use Calcium Carbonate. Both will bring the pH up and you only need a pinch or two.
I was at Colonial Williamsburg over the weekend and they said turmeric was very colorfast. Have you any experience with turmeric fading? I love experimenting and I'm not put off by a fugitive color. It is too much fun!
Do they have someone that demonstrates and talks about natural dyeing there? That's very cool!! Yes, I've experienced some fading with some turmeric things that I've dyed, but not nearly as much as I've heard some people talk about. Just a bit of a lightening of the color. Poke berries I've seen go from fuchsia to tan very dramatically, but with the turmeric it stayed the same color and lightened a bit.
@@NinjaChickens Oh goodness yes! The weavers shop has several spinning wheels and looms. Once a month, they dye with dyestuffs that they know from historical accounts, ads, or receipts was traded in the time period (late 1700s). It is really a wonderful place. Everyone who works there is in period costume and some are real journeymen or apprentices in their crafts. Some stay in period when they are talking to you and most have a fantastic dry humor. We had a great time with the wig maker who found us very vulgar for having our hair down and wearing our tattered clothes. She was hysterical! There are nation builders who speak from the point of view of the character they have studied. It is very educational and they don't shy away from modern topics.
@@tinakercher8768 That sounds amazing! I'm going to have to visit sometime!!!
So far, I've done a swatch for Andrea Mowry's Nightshift Shawl...The pattern in fantastic! :-)
Sooooo.....i guess no turtles, bummer. on the bright side on our morning beach walk we found a baby turtle ( they call them wash backs) and it got taken to the rescue. 5 babies in all were found and saved.
Awww! I'm so glad you helped the babies!! Did you take pictures?
@@NinjaChickens yes ! i posted it on my instagram account. so glad i took my phone that morning, i normally don't.
Could you dry your beans out and re soak them to get another dye bath
I don't see why not. I've not tried it, but I imagine you could pull a bit more color out of them!
If don’t intentionally raise the ph, how do you go about washing these items? Won’t all soaps raise the Ph? Is there a way to set it??
If you set it with heat, it will turn brown. Most soaps are pretty neutral in pH, so they should be fine for washing the yarn. Plus, you don't use much soap when soaking it. Unfortunately, it will fade if in the sunshine (not like being worn outside, but left in a sunny spot for too long).
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