I've done a bit of solar dying and went on a course about it last year. I found adding the mordent directly to the jar and giving it a good mix saves using heat. I've used rhubarb root, madder and camomile to dye with good effect. I've also been told that logwood gives a good purple but its hard to get that locally. I try to leave my jars for 3 months (summer or winter, it doesn't matter) for the best colour. Your colours look amazing for such a short period, keep on experimenting!
I often set dye projects into my little greenhouse for extra heat. It's way to hot in there for living plants over summer. I particularly like calendula flowers for a bright yellow dye.
@@MijnWolden Mine is very small, but it has handy shelves that grow greens through winter, veggie seedlings in spring and pans of dyeing wool in the summer.
I have done something similar with my kiddos where we use onion skins but crushed up, and things like marigold, goldenrod, tansy and stuff like that, all flecked throughout...and then wrapped in a cloth and then placed inside the vessel to sit. it works well. Also, not as rustic but using powdered dye extracts makes a very nice speckled yarn
The algorithm brought this video to me randomly, probably because of a recent search on how to darn my hiking socks. Darning has been a disaster, but watching the videos on your channel has been a delight. Please do more dye videos!
I’ve had wonderful results from yellow onion skins … a wonderful deep, honey gold … and a saturated salmon shade from red beets (not sure of light fastness). I have gotten a wonderful rose pink from red raspberries, too. I did add vinegar to all of these dye baths. I love your yarn and your method!! Kudos.
your jar of plants and yarn looks so beautiful. i just got done dyeing some wool with the Mahonia plant but we call it the oregon grape holly. i used the berries to dye some wool.i cooked the berries down in water and then strained and added the wool and left it for 8 hours. it was in the end like a lilac color. it is so fun to try different things u find in nature. i guess i hear it told if i took the roots of this plant and the bark...and put it with wool and water. i would get yellow wool. i think your wool color is so pretty. thanks for the lovely video's! ♥
Such a lovely pastel variegated yarn! So gorgeous I want to squish it 😍 purple is my favorite so anything that dyes purple naturally I would love to see more of.
Hi Jente, I hope you and Dries are both OK xx ❣️❣️❣️❣️ Thankyou so much for sharing this video podcast and your Solar Dyeing experiment . I love the Pastel shades, that you achieved. I wonder what your Hand Dyed Yarns would have looked like, if you'd left them for 6 weeks, that you'd planned to do.🤔🤔🤔 Happy Dyeing and Spinning Fibre Friend 🌻⚘️🎡🐑🥰 Take care and stay safe Lots of love and Big Hugs to you both Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🐑🐑
@MijnWolden, Hi Jente, I hope you're OK and your ankle is healing well 🤔🤔xx Thankyou so much for the Heart ♥ Sending Heart ♥ back to you ❤️💞 Happy Spinning Fibre Friend 🎡🐑🥰 Take care and stay safe Lots of love and Big Hugs Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🐑🐑
I love the results! Solar dyeing is always so fun and unpredictable :) one experiment I will definitely try soon is some loose herbal tea that has a mix of berries and hibiscus, it might just stain everything pinkish but I'm curious if you could get some speckles :)
What a fun experiment! Nice Results. I too, started solar dying this year. My jars stood on a very sunny spot for about four weeks - they gave an occasional 'plopp' when the heat had sealed them again. In one jar i used alder cones in another the greens from carrots. i had those stored slightly chopped, in the freezer - but left them to thaugh before putting them with the wool. I really do recommend those two, although i don't know how they do in combined baths like yours. The alder cones give a lovely toffee color and the carrot greens result in a slightly neonesque greenish yellow. While i was whatching, i thought about how it might be easier to achieve different spots or speckles, when the solar dye bath would happen in a flat container insted of a vertical jar. But i don't know what a suitable container would be 🤔 I don't think it's supposed to be out of plastic. Also, i recently read, that one could dye green with rose petals (without iron water, like in so many other greens). Thats one I really would love to try some time.
Really cool how well this worked! Even if not the most vibrant, I didn't expect making Yarn Preserves to lead to such distinct spots of colour For another try, I'd go for the most high contrast colour combination you can find in your dye arsenal. Only two colours, and in multiple layers so you get shorter lengths of the same colour along the yarn. Maybe spots of a third strong colour if you wanna get chaotic with it, because the sprinkling did seem to yield some lovely spots! The shot of you putting the jar on the windowsill made me laugh unexpectedly - it looked like you had weirdly remixed a fresh jar of what google tells me is maybe called "leavened pickles" (kovászos uborka) to my eyes. Doubt the yarn would like to get munched on, though
Funny, I just wrapped up my own solar dyeing experiment with dyer's chamomille, and I was thinking of attempting a multi-color solar dyeing experiment with easter egg dyes! I'm glad to see the proof of concept, I'll really have to give it a try. (fun fact: I had two jars that were theoretically identical, but one got a bit moldy and turned beigey instead of the bright yellow I was expecting (and got in the other jar). It might be interesting to experiment with mold as well!)
If I were repeating this experiment, I'd probably keep the madder and the annatto separate from the others, and dedicate a jar to them. That should result in a really nice skein with orange and orange-y red streaks and speckles. I'd also suggest trying to "double" the yellows and the greens, use more dye-stuff and also give the jars a longer time in the sun. But I'm not an expert. EDIT: The subtle colours you obtained would still be very nice in a project.
I think it would be cool to use the same dye stuff same matter or clean, please and then it using a bit of iron or another additive to change so you could do like onions and and then layer in iron nails throughout the game in the chart so that it onlyaffect the curious where the nails are
Try laying out the skin, place the dyeing material on it and roll loosely into a fat ball. Push it into your jar with the opened of the ball facing up . We used to dye white kitchen string like this for macerate projects when I was a kid.
@@MijnWolden stop giving your self deadlines when it comes out it comes out but this summer or when I get home I will give it a try and maybe add rhubarb leaves as a mordant as I have never used them as such and have a big plant growing I think I can start with mint and clover the purple one should be all over the floor of the green house when I get home and maybe calendula flowers and aramath if it still 🌸
Super cool experiment! I wonder if you could get a cool gradient using only yellow and red onion peels? I may have to start eating some red onions now to find out!
I've done a bit of solar dying and went on a course about it last year. I found adding the mordent directly to the jar and giving it a good mix saves using heat. I've used rhubarb root, madder and camomile to dye with good effect. I've also been told that logwood gives a good purple but its hard to get that locally. I try to leave my jars for 3 months (summer or winter, it doesn't matter) for the best colour. Your colours look amazing for such a short period, keep on experimenting!
Yeah, logwood is really hard to source
Excellent example of: just try things and see what happens!
F*ck around and find out :D
I often set dye projects into my little greenhouse for extra heat. It's way to hot in there for living plants over summer. I particularly like calendula flowers for a bright yellow dye.
WIsh I had a greenhouse :)
@@MijnWolden Mine is very small, but it has handy shelves that grow greens through winter, veggie seedlings in spring and pans of dyeing wool in the summer.
I have done something similar with my kiddos where we use onion skins but crushed up, and things like marigold, goldenrod, tansy and stuff like that, all flecked throughout...and then wrapped in a cloth and then placed inside the vessel to sit. it works well. Also, not as rustic but using powdered dye extracts makes a very nice speckled yarn
If you count turmeric as a powdered dye extract, it's still very rustic :D
The algorithm brought this video to me randomly, probably because of a recent search on how to darn my hiking socks. Darning has been a disaster, but watching the videos on your channel has been a delight. Please do more dye videos!
Disasters are just the starting point ;)
Loved this experiment!
I’d like to see you try something that either gives a very bright yellow or a purple. Or… both.
so... onionpeels and campeche :D
Thanks for sharing all your wool adventures with us all! Unfortunately wool triggers my eczema, so I have to live vicariously through your videos.
Luckily there's a lot of substitutes that might not trigger your eczema?
@@MijnWolden I do get to knit/crochet with bamboo and cotton, but they don’t dye as nicely as wool does.
I’ve had wonderful results from yellow onion skins … a wonderful deep, honey gold … and a saturated salmon shade from red beets (not sure of light fastness). I have gotten a wonderful rose pink from red raspberries, too. I did add vinegar to all of these dye baths. I love your yarn and your method!! Kudos.
I can't keep up with our raspberry bushes, what a cool idea to use them for dyeing! Could I ask what you did specifically?
Normally everything you can eat (so, beets and berries) aren't great dyesources. They stain but don't actually dye. But I hope yours stay nice.
@@MijnWolden now I remember you re-dying that beautiful sweater with yellow onion skins.…
This turned out really cool! I need to try some solar dying once I have enough calendula flowers!
Yes, it is so much fun :D
love this sort of playful experimentation : )
Thank you :D
your jar of plants and yarn looks so beautiful. i just got done dyeing some wool with the Mahonia plant but we call it the oregon grape holly. i used the berries to dye some wool.i cooked the berries down in water and then strained and added the wool and left it for 8 hours. it was in the end like a lilac color. it is so fun to try different things u find in nature. i guess i hear it told if i took the roots of this plant and the bark...and put it with wool and water. i would get yellow wool. i think your wool color is so pretty. thanks for the lovely video's! ♥
Some plants have so many different dye opportunities in them!
I love seeing videos like these! Natural dye is so cool. I currently have some fabric and embroidery floss in a tannin bath (acorns from Miami)
Acorns are great :D
Those came out gorgeously!!
Thank you!
Oh, this turned out really nice! Excited to see what a more Focused dyestuff combo might give
Me too :D
Such a lovely pastel variegated yarn! So gorgeous I want to squish it 😍 purple is my favorite so anything that dyes purple naturally I would love to see more of.
Purple is very illusive sadly enough, that's why it was such a statussymbol in antiquity :)
Hi Jente, I hope you and Dries are both OK xx ❣️❣️❣️❣️
Thankyou so much for sharing this video podcast and your Solar Dyeing experiment .
I love the Pastel shades, that you achieved.
I wonder what your Hand Dyed Yarns would have looked like, if you'd left them for 6 weeks, that you'd planned to do.🤔🤔🤔
Happy Dyeing and Spinning Fibre Friend 🌻⚘️🎡🐑🥰
Take care and stay safe
Lots of love and Big Hugs to you both Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🐑🐑
@MijnWolden, Hi Jente, I hope you're OK and your ankle is healing well 🤔🤔xx
Thankyou so much for the Heart ♥
Sending Heart ♥ back to you ❤️💞
Happy Spinning Fibre Friend 🎡🐑🥰
Take care and stay safe
Lots of love and Big Hugs Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🐑🐑
I might try again when I'm not at home and not so tempted to open the jar prematurely :D
I love the results! Solar dyeing is always so fun and unpredictable :)
one experiment I will definitely try soon is some loose herbal tea that has a mix of berries and hibiscus, it might just stain everything pinkish but I'm curious if you could get some speckles :)
oooooh that would be very interesting!
Love the results! Good luck untangling that.
It'll be for a day when I have plenty patience haha
I love how it turned out. I bet it will look lovely worked up into a project :)
Thank you!
This was so fun ❤
Thank you!
What a fun experiment! Nice Results. I too, started solar dying this year. My jars stood on a very sunny spot for about four weeks - they gave an occasional 'plopp' when the heat had sealed them again. In one jar i used alder cones in another the greens from carrots. i had those stored slightly chopped, in the freezer - but left them to thaugh before putting them with the wool. I really do recommend those two, although i don't know how they do in combined baths like yours. The alder cones give a lovely toffee color and the carrot greens result in a slightly neonesque greenish yellow.
While i was whatching, i thought about how it might be easier to achieve different spots or speckles, when the solar dye bath would happen in a flat container insted of a vertical jar. But i don't know what a suitable container would be 🤔 I don't think it's supposed to be out of plastic.
Also, i recently read, that one could dye green with rose petals (without iron water, like in so many other greens). Thats one I really would love to try some time.
Alder cones are one of my favourites! Such a rich golden colour :)
Hm, maybe you could thrift a big glass salad bowl and a fitting glass plate (-cake plate?) as a lid. Or a Pyrex casserole with a fitting lid.
Really cool how well this worked! Even if not the most vibrant, I didn't expect making Yarn Preserves to lead to such distinct spots of colour
For another try, I'd go for the most high contrast colour combination you can find in your dye arsenal. Only two colours, and in multiple layers so you get shorter lengths of the same colour along the yarn. Maybe spots of a third strong colour if you wanna get chaotic with it, because the sprinkling did seem to yield some lovely spots!
The shot of you putting the jar on the windowsill made me laugh unexpectedly - it looked like you had weirdly remixed a fresh jar of what google tells me is maybe called "leavened pickles" (kovászos uborka) to my eyes. Doubt the yarn would like to get munched on, though
Yarn isn't a great foodsource no :D
I do really like it, hmm, no I love the colors
Thank you :D
I'm surprised the annatto wasn't more impactful. I use that to make Al Pastor and it gets everywhere. Maybe you want to crack the bits open next time?
It was only a couple of little nodules, maybe cracking them open would give more orange indeed...
Love your idea, now I want to play with my natural dyes and maybe sprinkle some Turmeric over it in a low pan 🤔...
Great plan!
Funny, I just wrapped up my own solar dyeing experiment with dyer's chamomille, and I was thinking of attempting a multi-color solar dyeing experiment with easter egg dyes! I'm glad to see the proof of concept, I'll really have to give it a try. (fun fact: I had two jars that were theoretically identical, but one got a bit moldy and turned beigey instead of the bright yellow I was expecting (and got in the other jar). It might be interesting to experiment with mold as well!)
I once had mold turn red, however it didn't stay on the wool
If I were repeating this experiment, I'd probably keep the madder and the annatto separate from the others, and dedicate a jar to them. That should result in a really nice skein with orange and orange-y red streaks and speckles. I'd also suggest trying to "double" the yellows and the greens, use more dye-stuff and also give the jars a longer time in the sun.
But I'm not an expert.
EDIT: The subtle colours you obtained would still be very nice in a project.
I was going for complementary, so it would be more visible, but keeping the colourgroups seperate is probably really pretty too!
I think it would be cool to use the same dye stuff same matter or clean, please and then it using a bit of iron or another additive to change so you could do like onions and and then layer in iron nails throughout the game in the chart so that it onlyaffect the curious where the nails are
Great work! I want to try natural dyeing, but have had other priorities taking up too much space.
But one pot on a windowsill... how much space does that actually take up? >:)
@MijnWolden hehe. I have the physical space in my house, but not the mental space or physical capacity. 😁❤️
Try laying out the skin, place the dyeing material on it and roll loosely into a fat ball. Push it into your jar with the opened of the ball facing up . We used to dye white kitchen string like this for macerate projects when I was a kid.
oooh, that sounds great!
Marigolds and Dahlia flowers work well in this way
Marigolds are on my list to plant in my garden next year
Even in our hot sun in Australia 30+ is not uncommon I normally leave longer than you did so give it another go good reuse of undeyed yarn though
Yes, well, if only UA-cam deadlines weren't a thing ;)
@@MijnWolden stop giving your self deadlines when it comes out it comes out but this summer or when I get home I will give it a try and maybe add rhubarb leaves as a mordant as I have never used them as such and have a big plant growing I think I can start with mint and clover the purple one should be all over the floor of the green house when I get home and maybe calendula flowers and aramath if it still 🌸
Super cool experiment! I wonder if you could get a cool gradient using only yellow and red onion peels? I may have to start eating some red onions now to find out!
Bon apetit with all those onions ;)
Results of dying with nature dyes can be unpredictable.
Very, but that's part of the fun, right?
Ma’am, are you trying to get me into natural dyeing? Because now I’m curious about natural dyeing.
Yes.
red cabbage! and would it help to use vinegar in the base water to dye more vibrantly?
Red cabbage is not a great dye source, I'm sorry. It stains rather than dyes... But vinegar/anyhting acidic does change the colours :)