Dyepot Weekly #44 - Dyeing Glazed Yarn - Overdyeing Neon Colors with Black
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
- Glazing is a dyeing term that refers to overdyeing yarn with a thin layer of dye so you can still see the original color underneath. This technique requires a hot dyebath and a lot of acid so the second layer of color can strike quickly. I decided to give this technique a shot with only a little of information to see how easy this type of effect is to achieve when flying by the seat of my pants. I think the final results are stunning, and I cannot wait to try this more in the future.
We dyed Bare chroma twist (70% Superwash Wool, 30% Nylon) which is no longer available for purchase in the fingering weight, however you can find it in bulky weight: shrsl.com/wakl (KnitPicks Affiliate Link)
VIDEO CONTENTS:
[0:00] Introduction to the glazing technique and the Chroma Twist yarn
[0:54] Introduction to the acid dye stock solutions - 1% stock solutions in Jet Black, Sun Yellow, and Pink
[1:05] Adding extra ties to the yarn
[1:17] Setting up the dyebath to dye the neon colorway - 2 T white vinegar to a few cups of water. Adding the "pre wetted" yarn to the dyepot (I just ran the yarn under some tap water to make it a little damp so it would go in the pot easier.)
[2:42] Adding the dye to the yarn. Wahoo! Space dyeing!
Adding 1/3 cup of yellow and a total of 2/3 cup of pink (1/3 cup is ~80 mL)
[5:02] After 10 min. All pinks have absorbed but there is still a bit of yellow left.
[5:44] After 10 more min, removing the yarn, and a little yellow is left behind.
[6:44] Setting up the black dyebath 12 cups of water + 2/3 cup of white vinegar ~10 tsp. 1/3 cup of the 1% jet black dye stock.
[8:24] Glazing the yarn with black. (Note that the yarn was only in the dyebath for less than 50 seconds!)
[11:14] Washing the yarn
[13:38] The finished dry yarn and conclusions.
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Dang! I thought it might be a mess, but it turned out very wonderful. Thanks for being adventurous
It is so hard to trust the process sometimes!
The finished skein reminds me of a rose garden at midnight. Its gorgeous. Thank you for sharing this tutorial! :D I am inspired to try it myself!
Thank you so much for watching! I hope that you love your results!
I'm waiting for the inevitable "dip glaze over broken violet" video!
fantasyfan90 ah ah we all know how Rebecca loves her broken violet 😁😁
Oh man, you KNOW this is coming. WAHAHAHA. I haven't done it yet, but I hope to, soon.
Dip-dye breaking black over breaking violet?! :-D
That's looking fabulous! Wow!!!
So beautiful! Thanks Rebecca !This technique would look beautiful with turquoise base and grey glaze ❤️ I think I'm going to try it! Thanks for sharing!
YES! There are so many ways to layer colors. I have a lot of plans to play with this coming up.
The green looks like jade. A colour I like a lot. Thanks Rebecca for another great video.
Thank you for watching! I Love love love how this turned out.
These are the exact color combos that I look for when i'm buying yarn for myself. the 'purple' and 'green' shades are my favorite when blocked together.
WOOHOO! Layering color is a new favorite of mine so I will definitely be playing with this more in the future.
I would totally be drawn to this yarn if I saw it in a shop window, no hypnotized by it is more like it, it's beautiful. That being said, having seen the before colors, I wish just a bit more of the brightness could have been preserved, just the way it was preglazing. Maybe adding some resist, like the half inch wide rubber bands? Perhaps? Hope you're having a blast on your vacation!!! 😎
I think that resists would be super cool. I would want to tie the yarn off in smaller sections, because if it is too tight you'll limit the glazing area a bit too much. I will absolutely play around with this technique more!
That is amazing!!! 😍I would buy this if I saw it in a shop. Thank you for this video, Rebecca. Enjoy your holiday 😘
Thank you, Lotte!
i love it, all the colors are like gourmet treats! very elegant to my eyes.
Thank you! I cannot wait to play with this further. I hope to set up a bath for a lot of glazing soon.
Great results. Gorgeous colors
Thank you so much!
Well done. This technique gives the yarn a a richer quality.
I think this could give so much depth to a solid yarn, too. So fun!
OMG. I wanna try this. Thanks! Your colors are fabulous
My pleasure. It was fun and I can't wait to film more videos with this technique!
Quite amazing results. I pay big buck for fiber looking like this, but now I will try myself. Bravo and thanks
WOOHOO! I love it when you guys go out and try the techniques at home.
Black dye on order!
woohoo!
This is incredible!
I am enjoying going up the comments and seeing your responses as the episode goes on.
Love these colours
Thank you so much, Rachael!
I love the technique.
Thank you for your video
My pleasure. This video was so much fun to make. I was nervous but sometimes it is worth just going for it. :)
This looks like malabrigo wool. I did think you was going to pop it in and out quickly, but the colours are still OK.
Your fit of giggles made me laugh,mind 😂💕
I love filming new techniques the first time I try them because it can show my true reaction. :)
I Loved this technique! You can name this colorway Glazed Strawberry Lemonade!! lol Lovely!! Happy Dyeing and Thanks again for Sharing!! I agree about dipping quickly and removing fast will get a lighter glazed effect!!
I'm itching to play with this more tomorrow, but realistically I probably should wait until next week. I LOVE LOVE LOVE how this yarn came out!
I really like these colors. I was worried when you first took out of the pot but so rich.
ME TOO! I think that I will try it for a shorter period of time next time, but either way the colors shone through so nicely!
Gorgeous
Thank you!
Hi Rebecca! Hope your foot is healing up fast!! Love this!!! It looks like a Malabrigo yarn!!! Which I love!!!!👍
Thanks, Kristen! I'm starting to do more things out of the boot. (I'm cleared to be out of a hard shoe/boot more now... the day I get home from vacation.) I just have to be careful to not re-injure it.
ChemKnits Tutorials. Hi Rebecca! Hope you are having a fantastic time on your vacation!
I did! I just got back last night and gave my new pretty yarns a hug. ;) I'm so excited to spend some time in the editing bay today.
Beautiful! Thx!
Thank you too!
Hi, Rebecca:
Try putting the dye in warm water with vinegar. Then dip the damp yarn in the dye bath several times but don't drop it in the pot. As soon as you see any black take to the yarn, remove the yarn. You can now steam the overdyed yarn in a microwave oven to set the color.
I like dip dyeing because it distributes the color evenly.
Oh goodness, I thought I had replied to this but I guess it didn't go through.
Thank you SO MUCH for this suggestion. Clearly I didn't know much about what I was doing and I haven't gotten something quite like this in the times I've tried since. I'm 100% going to give this a shot and do even less than the 5 seconds I've been playing with lately. (There are a few other videos coming out with it like this, but I'm 100% going to try your tip soon!)
Love it!
Thank you!
Cool! I want to try this with same base colours, and then glaze with a very dark red/burgundy
That would be LOVELY!
I picked up a mohair yarn that looks similar to this, not knitted with it yet but it looks spectacular in the ball!
Awesome!
Or less vinger in the pot if you wanted to leave it in. More vinger and quic dump. ☺️💗
I've got a lot of refining to do with my glazing technique, but for my first shot this one still makes me happy. :D
Hi Rebecca.Nice video as always. I think I would try it with less black dye, somewhere between a fourth or a 1/3rd cup
I think that next time I'm going to do a shorter dip, and maybe double the yarn. But yes, I think less dye might also be a good thing, too.
I overdyed a bright Kelly Green with a weak black dye and it turned out beautiful. The trick is to make the black dye bath weak.
Beautiful! Question: is it best to use a skein that is warm or hot or would it matter if it was only room temperature?
Oooo.... good question Sarah! I'm sure this would work fine on a skein that was already warm/hot. I think the reason why I let this be at room temp was that I was filming a number of different videos at once and I needed the dyepot to be empty. This is the only time I've tried this technique (YET) so I still have some refining to do.
Hello . I don't speak english but yours (?) Vidéos is formidable !! Thank you thank you !
I'm glad that you like it! Thanks for watching!
I think the vinegar used in the first round was still in the fibers and adding more vinegar made the second dip lock in.
I think the vinegar in the yarn already does help
Rebecca, this is my favourite yarn of yours yet! It's beautiful! Do you think you would get a similar result if you used food colouring instead of a commercial dye?
Potentially. Colors like REd #3 strike SO FAST that you can get a glazed look sometimes by accident. There isn't a good black food coloring (most blacks read purple or green on yarn). I still need to work on my glazing technique before, my results tend to be hit or miss but I love the results so much I want to keep trying!
My favorite show. I am wondering if there is a way of making gray dye with food coloring, or Wilton dyes. Thanks
Grey is a hard color to do with food coloring. Really hard. It is so easy to do with acid dyes that I haven't really even gone back to try to make something work with food coloring. I've ended up with some greyish tones, but not really ever on purpose. Black food coloring breaks so much that it would be hard to get just the greyish tones.
Awesome!! Would it work if the yellow and pink had been Koolaide? Just curious
I think so! There is also no reason why the glazing color needs to be black. it could be blue, red, grey... anything.
What do you do temperature wise for non-superwash yarn?
Also I there a synthrapol rinse afterwards for any fugitive color runs? O
I have some synthrapol somewhere but haven't used it yet - I really need to do that soon. (I just bumped it to the top to start trying it instead of dish soap.)
Do you wear the mask only when the dyes are in their powder form? I've only done food color so far (which I learned from your videos 🙂) but want to do some and I have acid dyes in powder form sitting around waiting for me.
I personally only wear the respirator mask when I have exposed powders. If all of the powders are wet I am personally comfortable removing the mask. (The big concern is inhaling the powder.) I try to be good about wearing eye protection even with liquid dyes, though.
Can this technique be done with food coloring type dyes? I don't have acid dyes. How would you make it a bit lighter? Less time, less black dye or both? Thanks
Hi Cindy! I haven't tried this with food coloring yet, but it should work. I think next time I will reduce both the amount of dye and the time the yarn is in the pot.
I know I’m a year late but would it work in reverse? Dye the yarn black and add colour over it or speckles, so it ended like colour spots in it?
Potentially! This worked so well because the black struck so quickly to the yarn. You might want to wash it between the steps to remove some of that acid, but it would be fun to play around with.
Can this technique work with cotton and cotton dyes (thinking of DYLON dyes, specifically)? Or does the vinegar requirement here, but not required for cotton dyes, mean it won't?
This technique would not work well with dylon dyes since dylon (in my experience) binds fairly slowly and penetrates pretty far into the fibers. You would probably want a hot dye for cotton so the colors would be able to strike shallow and fast. Maybe even using dry yarn to do the glazing. These are at least my first thoughts since I haven't tried it.
Thanks so much for the reply! You've given me some things to think about.
Dang Rebecca!!!
Awe, thanks!
Is this liquid jacquard acid dye the same acid dye used for silk painting?
I'm not sure. This is the powder acid dye that I dissolved for a 1% stock solution.
Which is 1 g dye per 100 mL water
Hi I am interested in starting to hand dye my own yarn and was wondering what you do to dry your yarn when your done?
Hi Alaina! Sometimes I use a salad spinner to remove the excess water after washing the yarn. Other times I gently squeeze out the water and then hang the yarn up to dry. I have a drying rack that I use for the yarn.
ChemKnits Tutorials thank you 😊
actually now she has a spinner that works marvels, see her more recent videos. I am just re-watching this, she continues to upgrade and refine all her techniques. I don't remember the name of the product though.
What brand is the neon dye from? I want to try this at home!
All of the dyes used on this yarn are Jacquard Acid dyes. The exact colors etc are in the video description.
ChemKnits Tutorials thanks sooo much!
My pleasure. :)
Jacquard wil crash if you boil it like that. It doesn't need to be boiling. I bring up to a 'simmer' at most and no foam.
Thank you! I'm much better at not getting to such a high boil these days. (Better- but not perfect...)
Which is easier, dyeing yarn or roving?
Yarn. Even a lightly spun yarn has some more order to the fibers than roving. With roving there is a risk that you could felt it so it is hard to spin with.
ChemKnits Tutorials thanks! I’ve been watching your videos all day. Gonna try spinning and dyeing my own yarn this weekend.
YAY! Dyeing Roving isn't hard either, yarn is just a little bit easier. I try to be more careful when washing roving. I try to not rub or squeeze it too much or let it be under running water. But everything I"ve done has been spinnable so far. :)
We have a facebook group with a lot of active members: facebook.com/groups/ChemKnitsLab/ If you have questions while dyeing frequently someone else can answer before I get there. ;) (I try to respond to UA-cam comments within a day, too.)
anyone else really want spaghetti watching this:D
LOL!
You left it in there too long! 5 sec was enough
I always have SO MUCH doubt when I try this. Even now - although this was one of my best examples and it was the first!