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@ That’s why I wrote this comment as the mention in the video was somewhat hesitant. I think Rebecca does a great job of presenting ideas and especially the math necessary to get good outcomes without sounding like she’s at the front of a lecture hall.
I think the colours you ended up with are gorgeous. A happy mistake. 😊 I did wonder if you were using way too much dye but the extra yarn you dyed is also gorgeous. The only time I felt like screaming at the screen (well, more likely politely but urgently talking to you) was that your skeins didn’t seem to have multiple ties around them to prevent potential tangling. The tangles you ended up with reminded me of when my then toddler took some a skein of beautifully dyed merino and tangled it around the couch and any other furniture in the room. 400m is a lot of tangles. I cried then spent hours painstakingly untangling it all. Almost 18 year later I remember it like yesterday. My yarn ended up in far more secure storage after that!
Holy buckets of too much dye batman! 1/4th of a teaspoon of each color would have been more than plenty to dye the yarn you had to dye. It is better to go more conservative with your dye because you can always over dye to deposit more color. My method to get a more even color I start my yarn soaking right before I go to bed. I have a 5 gallon bucket I fill about half way with water an put my yarn in that to soak while I sleep. The next day I pull my yarn out of the bucket and add my dye and vinigar making sure it is well mixed before adding all my yarn and i might let that soak in the dye for a day or at least an hour (gently stir it a couple times) then I do pull the yarn and transfer the dye bath water to my pan, and heat set. Pretty color you got on all the yarns.
@@kristalburns3490 yes it sets the dye, but even (level) color happens under a slow -strike condition, so best to start slow, cool, high water level (no crowding) and no acid. Let dye diffuse around the yarn, then acid to set the dye.
@ it does but when you mix it in the dye bath and stir before you add the fiber the vinegar is dispersed. Adding over the top of fiber in dye will make an uneven, tonal yarn. Like hers is, rather than a solid.
@@sleepydrJ Let me reread my comment. Looks like I gave the method that worked for me to get a solid. Dye and vinigar in the soak water with no heat mentioned but a nice longish soak in the dye bath before heat setting. I do is use my soak water through the process. Kinda cuts down on water usage. Wash and rinse with fresh water. She wants to duplicate the sweater she is wearing so she is after a solid color.
That color is so beautiful! But I will admit I was completely gagged when I saw how much dye you put into that bath 😅 it's a learning process for all of us! Please make more yarn dying videos! This was awesome!
Those colours are so SO gorgeous! Also I will never stop being in awe of your patience. If I was dying yarn and it came out as tangled as yours did, I would throw it into a black hole and never look at it again. And that's without any deadlines or videos or craftmas or illness or anything lol. You are a champ for taking challenges in stride and with such a good attitude! And of course, take all the time you need with the sweater! Craftmas has been so fun this year, finished sweater or no!
The colour you created is beautiful 💙. I've not useful Jacquard dyed before but I'd make sure that before you soak the bare yarn you add lots of ties to it, it helps with sorting out tangles. The yarn I buy for dyeing comes with 4 or more figure 8 ties in it, meaning I can find 2 ties no matter how tangled it gets in the process and find the middle opening of the skein, then put my arms in and give it a good pull, that usually sorts out lots of the tangles (I spin my hand dyed in the washer too). I also add the vinegar to the water, then the dye (which I mix with a milk frother in a separate container before) then the squeezed out soaked yarn. Cook for a while and then leave to cool (sometimes overnight if I've a stubborn colour that won't exhaust completely into the yarn). That'll save a lot of rinsing. But we all find our own ways of doing it, I'm sure there are other suggestions that I don't do that work just as well! Looking forward to the rest of craftmas 😊
1) I suspect your existing sweater is somewhere around a 2%dos. 2) If you look at the acid dye section on acme fiber (Canada) you’ll see examples for different DOS for each acid dye color. Ps: I think there is/was a ravelry group for people that enjoy detangling yarn (for other people!!) 3) for more even color use a very high volume of water vs yarn- can get a cheap stockpot from ikea…. So that all the strands of yarn are nicely surrounded by dye. 4) you probably already realized you need to adds lots of figure 8 ties around your skeins! Keep them loose and then you can’t have too many!! But you sure can have too few!!
That is a GORGEOUS colour! All of the yarn you dyed came out gorgeous, but I'm also biased because blue is my favourite colour. The sky blue is absolutely dreamy.
All the colors you got are so beautiful, but I can see why you're trying to replicate the original yarn color, which is stunning! I can't wait to see the rest of this project, whether it happens during Craftmas or not!!
Is it bad that I giggled when I saw the skeins? Omg you're a wizard at untangling because that was super knotty. One thing for solid dyeing that I've done in the past, I've found a massive stock pot better for liquid flow and large amounts of fibre. Let the wet yarn sit in the pot for a couple of hours before adding heat and acid (water is usually acidic so there will be some striking). Using cable ties is also a great way to swish the yarn around gently and keep them from tangling. I love love love the colour btw the swatch is beautiful.
The yarn color you ended up with reminds me of the malibrigo colorway, "under the sea", that I happen to be crocheting with right now! Totally gorgeous yarns you made there!
I love how the yarn turned out; the slight variations in color are going to add so much interest in the fabric! Looking forward to seeing the finished sweater 💙
The color reminds me (in the best way) of beetle shells? Like some exotic insect that you'd use as an inspiration for a piece of jewelry or something. What a great experiement, even if you wound up somewhere you didn't expect.
I love this color!🎉 A good thing to do when dyeing is to dissolve the dye completely in a container of hot water first. This helps you get rid of clumps and completely dissolve all the powder for even coverage. Also when you add your yarn you want to move it all around to make sure you evenly cover the yarn too.
Omg the color came out gorgeous !! Love the difference in the rows !! This is gonna be so pretty !! Good job even though things didn't go as planned !! Merry Christmas!! 🎄🎁
I love the 3 colours you made! The colours on my tv of your original sweater looks teal no sign of Green! I think the variegated yarn will be amazing once knitted up. I was so taken with your machine knitting I sent a link to my sis who has introduced the Sentra to the kids she works with! Machine knitting is not something that appeals to me but I enjoy watching your vlog
Those yarn colours are so fantastic! Shame about having to detangle yarn, but I think you'll survive 😁 I suggest camping out on the sofa with a good movie!
when you dump acid into the water the yellow pigments will snap to the wool quickly under the strong acid concentration. Mix it with water or the bath itself and be sure the wool is soaked in plain water so the transition is slower and more even. I did some roving/ply dying this summer to spin up, and blue takes the longest to adhere. so the blue will always be more evenly attracted to the wool and be the leftover stains in the pot. The yellows are medium and red/pink are very fast. so in a pigment mix like green the greener parts are where the yellow hit first and then the leftover blues fill in everywhere over time
Iclv3 been dying and overdying clothes and fabric for decades, starting as a teenager wanting my black jeans to go back to being black. What I have found is that using a little less dye, but dying it twice (repeat every stage but only dry it once at the end) works really well at eliminating the blotches where dye take up gets a bit patchy. Looks good so far. 😉
I would not have thought of detangling on the Swift-I will definitely remember that trick. Your main yarn kind of reminds me of Knitpicks Muse in the heathering and gradient.
I suspect your existing sweater is somewhere around a 2%dos. If you look at the acid dye section on acme fiber (Canada) you’ll see examples for different DOS for each acid dye color.
Before you decide to recycle your dye container (it looks like a serving tray), drill some holes in the bottom to discourage anyone from using it to store food. If you have the patience, consider using a dremel tool to warn future users to never use it for food serving.
I absolutely love your happy mistakes. I think the colors are beautiful and when it comes to dyeing it's always a crap shoot unless of course you're a professional 😊 so happy knitting and just make it your own. Can't wait to see results. So sorry you have been so ill of late and pray that gets better for you soon.❤
What lovely colors, even if not what you intended! I agree - just beautiful!!! ♥️♥️♥️ With the high contrast to the cream, I think it could actually work with the sweater design, though I understand wanting to try matching more closely. I think snowflakes and deer on the slightly variegated background would look like they are being viewed against a landscape. I think that the green is coming in part from the fact that the original yarn wasn’t white but rather a cream, though I could be wrong since I’m seeing onscreen colors, and didn’t see your mop-up results next to the sweater. But, I do know that dying is additive, so whatever the base color is will be added to the finished color. (This isn’t criticism; it’s simply intended as informative. I took a couple courses in color theory at university, and had another on coloring textiles using a variety of methods, including using methods in combination.)
If this ever happens again, just find the yarn ties, make sure the strands are not crossing over the ties ( so they are aligned in the right direction). Then put your hands in the middle of the skein and start to pull them apart. The yarn isn't knotted - it just needs pulling into the shape of the skein again. Remember if the ties aren't broken it's still a big circle! It just needs flattening out, as dome strands have tightened up.
Good heavens, you made it such a beautiful colour! I love the gradient/colour variation in it, I'm excited to see how it knits up in the sweater. Dyeing experiments are such a great fun, I'd love to try dyeing some yarn as well. I have quite a lot of experience with dyeing cotton fabrics, but none with yarns... and I can't do wool. And looking into dyeing cotton yarns, there's not much encouraging information on it...
The yarns turned out so beautiful! I think the mottled colour will give a beautiful night sky look behind the reindeer in the finished sweater. Cannot wait to see the finished sweater, and also what the other yarns turn out to be. Happy almost Christmas!
I hope you recover in time for Christmas, you definitely don't sound as if you have recovered completely yet. And I love that dark, variegated colour. It looks really good in the sample and it still has plenty of contrast against the natural. I'm with you on disliking that very bright white for knitting, I always go for the natural white. (Shirts, including t-shirts are different, I'm quite happy with the pure white for them.)
Moving it and putting vinegar in towards the end will also give you a more even dye color. A lost less dye for sure. What you have is a beautiful variegated kettle dyed yarn. You can pull oversaturated yarn and put them into a clear bath simmer more and add more vinegar to set it. The best way to find out things work is to just practice. Your yarn is beautiful…and look how many other skeins too. 🌈🌈🦋🦋
Interesting looking soup 🍲. Super beautiful looking yarn 🧶. 🤓 Blue greens are my favorite too, and all of those colors that came out of the dye look nice to me. I am excited to see how the finished sweater will look. Take care.
That vintage sweater color is very close to a medium saturation of Dharma dyes “frozen” just for future reference and to avoid having to mix colors. Perhaps desaturated slightly with a tiny bit of an orangey red in the dye stock. Getting a good even saturation of color is done by putting the soaked yarn in when the dye bath is cool, then slowly warming it. Add the acid as you begin to warm it. Let it soak first, then slowly bring it up to temp to set the dye. Also please please make sure you wear a full respirator anytime you’re working with powdered acid dyes. They are easily inhaled and can be extremely harmful to your lungs.
I suspect your existing sweater is somewhere around a 2%dos. If you look at the acid dye section on acme fiber (Canada) you’ll see examples for different DOS for each acid dye color. Ps: I think there is/was a ravelry group for people that enjoy detangling yarn (for other people!!)
I think the typical amount of dye to use is 1g per 100g of wool so you can save a lot of money and less dye into the environment if you use a bit less. I saw a great picture on the Ravelry Love to Dye group showing different intensities of colour based on grams of dye per 100g of wool, I don't have the link but you might like to look it up for future experiments. Have you tried soaking in dye cold before heating it? The darker parts of the variegation are from where the wool is closest to the heat source when the dye strikes.. if you soak the yarn in the dye cold for a while and then only add some acid after it has had time to really soak in then it will reduce the variegation considerably because the dye strikes evenly. Roxanne Richardson showed an example of this recently (magenta coloured chunky project) and referred back to a video from Chemknits. I used cold dyeing with success earlier this year when I overdyed an FO. I have a UA-cam podcast and showed the post-dyed cold dyed FO in my October (I think!) video. Good luck with all the untangling!! It isn't fun at all so I really empathise 😢
Oh, on the tangling. I had a really bad post-dye tangle too. And it happened with knitpicks yarn when I left their ties in place instead of adding my own. I don't think they add enough ties.
Oh, Honey! I dyed some Unger Plantation with tying the skeins in only 2 places. Yikes! Just a lot of hot-pink cotton spaghetti. It took hours to detangle but finally got it done. I feel your pain.🧶🧶🧶
I asked my Mom, since she has done both chemical mixing and painted portraits in acrylics in her life time. She says your original sweater actually looks more like a desaturated Navy Blue - a lot of Navy Blues actually have just a bit of green in them, but it can be hard to tell when they are fully saturated. So maybe try a couple of different saturations with Jacquard Navy Blue and see what you get.
Putting yarn in the washing machine is always not recommended. One for tangles but it can felt from heat. Washing in a sink is tedious but it’s safer. I agree with other commenters. The more ties the better and in a 8 wrap. Even zip ties. If you do only use 1 tie, there’s a snapping technique that can unstick and straighten the yarn.
I wish there was a bit more of an intro to the video with some context so it's easier to follow The finished dye product is absolutely insanely beautiful
Haha that's actually a happy accident. Gorgeous color results and yarn mops. Normally for full saturation, I would've used 2.5g of each color for 5 skeins, or half that to start out and deepen if needed. I also soak the yarn in the color for at least an hour (after the normal pre-soak) for more even colors if I'm going for that. Also, if you need help untangling that mess still, let me know. Based on your LYS trip, I think you live an hour north of me?
The original color looks slightly muted. If you try this again, just throw in a tiny bit of the color’s complimentary color. Should be an yelllow-orange color. You’re looking for the color that is direct opposite on the color wheel.
Hi. You should consider turning of the automatic translation feature in your settings. I am German and recently a lot of my favorite English speaking creators suddenly have automatically translated German titles and descriptions. Some sound ok, some sound weird and some are just plain wrong. This video has the title ‚A mistake to die for‘. I don’t know if that’s the original title because I cannot see it. As a viewer I cannot turn this feature off (which is infuriating). The title was translated into German word by word. I assume you meant that the mistake is ‚to die for‘ in the sense that it’s really good. Unfortunate that does not translate into German like that. If you say ‚to die for’ it literally means ‚to die for‘. This title makes no sense in German and sounds like it’s actually about dying somehow. So PLEASE consider turning off this feature. It’s not ready to be used and UA-cam shouldn’t have launched it IMO. As a viewer it’s super annoying. Thank you ! Edit. I now realized that it’s a pun with dye and die. Obviously puns don’t translate 😅
Okay I had to stop the video and comment, that is *Way* too much dye, you are wasting so much and running the risk of having a lot of bleeding. I hope this works out! Now I am going to go back and watch the rest of the video.
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Rebecca from ChemKnits has great hints for all sorts of dyers. As a biochemist, she’s also great with math and the science background if you want.
She actually mentions ChemKnits at the 10min40sec mark of the video!
@ That’s why I wrote this comment as the mention in the video was somewhat hesitant. I think Rebecca does a great job of presenting ideas and especially the math necessary to get good outcomes without sounding like she’s at the front of a lecture hall.
Second this!
I think the colours you ended up with are gorgeous. A happy mistake. 😊 I did wonder if you were using way too much dye but the extra yarn you dyed is also gorgeous. The only time I felt like screaming at the screen (well, more likely politely but urgently talking to you) was that your skeins didn’t seem to have multiple ties around them to prevent potential tangling. The tangles you ended up with reminded me of when my then toddler took some a skein of beautifully dyed merino and tangled it around the couch and any other furniture in the room. 400m is a lot of tangles. I cried then spent hours painstakingly untangling it all. Almost 18 year later I remember it like yesterday. My yarn ended up in far more secure storage after that!
Holy buckets of too much dye batman! 1/4th of a teaspoon of each color would have been more than plenty to dye the yarn you had to dye. It is better to go more conservative with your dye because you can always over dye to deposit more color. My method to get a more even color I start my yarn soaking right before I go to bed. I have a 5 gallon bucket I fill about half way with water an put my yarn in that to soak while I sleep. The next day I pull my yarn out of the bucket and add my dye and vinigar making sure it is well mixed before adding all my yarn and i might let that soak in the dye for a day or at least an hour (gently stir it a couple times) then I do pull the yarn and transfer the dye bath water to my pan, and heat set. Pretty color you got on all the yarns.
100% agree with this. A little dye goes a long way, adding the vinegar to the pan will definitely make a tonal yarn, not a solid.
@@PNWwonder Vinigar sets the dye. It can be added at any point.
@@kristalburns3490 yes it sets the dye, but even (level) color happens under a slow -strike condition, so best to start slow, cool, high water level (no crowding) and no acid. Let dye diffuse around the yarn, then acid to set the dye.
@ it does but when you mix it in the dye bath and stir before you add the fiber the vinegar is dispersed. Adding over the top of fiber in dye will make an uneven, tonal yarn. Like hers is, rather than a solid.
@@sleepydrJ Let me reread my comment. Looks like I gave the method that worked for me to get a solid. Dye and vinigar in the soak water with no heat mentioned but a nice longish soak in the dye bath before heat setting. I do is use my soak water through the process. Kinda cuts down on water usage. Wash and rinse with fresh water. She wants to duplicate the sweater she is wearing so she is after a solid color.
That color is so beautiful!
But I will admit I was completely gagged when I saw how much dye you put into that bath 😅 it's a learning process for all of us!
Please make more yarn dying videos! This was awesome!
Well, it's definitely a learning process for me, I had no idea she was overdoing the dye!
Those colours are so SO gorgeous! Also I will never stop being in awe of your patience. If I was dying yarn and it came out as tangled as yours did, I would throw it into a black hole and never look at it again. And that's without any deadlines or videos or craftmas or illness or anything lol. You are a champ for taking challenges in stride and with such a good attitude! And of course, take all the time you need with the sweater! Craftmas has been so fun this year, finished sweater or no!
I really like that dark blue yarn. The various colors make it look absolutely beautiful.
I love the color! Yarn dyeing seems so much fun, especially with this kinda timelapse when the dry yarn soaks up the dye!
The colour you created is beautiful 💙. I've not useful Jacquard dyed before but I'd make sure that before you soak the bare yarn you add lots of ties to it, it helps with sorting out tangles. The yarn I buy for dyeing comes with 4 or more figure 8 ties in it, meaning I can find 2 ties no matter how tangled it gets in the process and find the middle opening of the skein, then put my arms in and give it a good pull, that usually sorts out lots of the tangles (I spin my hand dyed in the washer too). I also add the vinegar to the water, then the dye (which I mix with a milk frother in a separate container before) then the squeezed out soaked yarn. Cook for a while and then leave to cool (sometimes overnight if I've a stubborn colour that won't exhaust completely into the yarn). That'll save a lot of rinsing. But we all find our own ways of doing it, I'm sure there are other suggestions that I don't do that work just as well! Looking forward to the rest of craftmas 😊
Ooooh, that's gonna knit up beautifully! I love the end result color, even if it wasn't quite what you were hoping for.
1) I suspect your existing sweater is somewhere around a 2%dos.
2) If you look at the acid dye section on acme fiber (Canada) you’ll see examples for different DOS for each acid dye color.
Ps: I think there is/was a ravelry group for people that enjoy detangling yarn (for other people!!)
3) for more even color use a very high volume of water vs yarn- can get a cheap stockpot from ikea…. So that all the strands of yarn are nicely surrounded by dye.
4) you probably already realized you need to adds lots of figure 8 ties around your skeins! Keep them loose and then you can’t have too many!! But you sure can have too few!!
That is a GORGEOUS colour! All of the yarn you dyed came out gorgeous, but I'm also biased because blue is my favourite colour. The sky blue is absolutely dreamy.
All the colors you got are so beautiful, but I can see why you're trying to replicate the original yarn color, which is stunning! I can't wait to see the rest of this project, whether it happens during Craftmas or not!!
i hollered when you dumped in the whole jar of dye oh my gosh 😮😂
Is it bad that I giggled when I saw the skeins? Omg you're a wizard at untangling because that was super knotty. One thing for solid dyeing that I've done in the past, I've found a massive stock pot better for liquid flow and large amounts of fibre. Let the wet yarn sit in the pot for a couple of hours before adding heat and acid (water is usually acidic so there will be some striking). Using cable ties is also a great way to swish the yarn around gently and keep them from tangling. I love love love the colour btw the swatch is beautiful.
The yarn color you ended up with reminds me of the malibrigo colorway, "under the sea", that I happen to be crocheting with right now! Totally gorgeous yarns you made there!
I love how the yarn turned out; the slight variations in color are going to add so much interest in the fabric! Looking forward to seeing the finished sweater 💙
The color reminds me (in the best way) of beetle shells? Like some exotic insect that you'd use as an inspiration for a piece of jewelry or something. What a great experiement, even if you wound up somewhere you didn't expect.
I love this color!🎉 A good thing to do when dyeing is to dissolve the dye completely in a container of hot water first. This helps you get rid of clumps and completely dissolve all the powder for even coverage. Also when you add your yarn you want to move it all around to make sure you evenly cover the yarn too.
While it’s not the color you were aiming for, the yarn is gorgeous!
Omg the color came out gorgeous !! Love the difference in the rows !! This is gonna be so pretty !! Good job even though things didn't go as planned !! Merry Christmas!! 🎄🎁
I love the 3 colours you made! The colours on my tv of your original sweater looks teal no sign of
Green! I think the variegated yarn will be amazing once knitted up.
I was so taken with your machine knitting I sent a link to my sis who has introduced the Sentra to the kids she works with!
Machine knitting is not something that appeals to me but I enjoy watching your vlog
Despite the challenge at the end, I love how the colors turned out.
Those yarn colours are so fantastic! Shame about having to detangle yarn, but I think you'll survive 😁 I suggest camping out on the sofa with a good movie!
More like 3 or 4 movies😂. Which is not a bad thing, given the cold.
I can’t wait to see the sweater when it’s done! I actually also love the colour that you made up and the variation looks beautiful 💚💙
I love the colours of all of the yarn.
I LOVE the “too-dark” teal!!
when you dump acid into the water the yellow pigments will snap to the wool quickly under the strong acid concentration. Mix it with water or the bath itself and be sure the wool is soaked in plain water so the transition is slower and more even. I did some roving/ply dying this summer to spin up, and blue takes the longest to adhere. so the blue will always be more evenly attracted to the wool and be the leftover stains in the pot. The yellows are medium and red/pink are very fast. so in a pigment mix like green the greener parts are where the yellow hit first and then the leftover blues fill in everywhere over time
Iclv3 been dying and overdying clothes and fabric for decades, starting as a teenager wanting my black jeans to go back to being black. What I have found is that using a little less dye, but dying it twice (repeat every stage but only dry it once at the end) works really well at eliminating the blotches where dye take up gets a bit patchy. Looks good so far. 😉
The colour of the final yarn is lovely and you are brave to untangle all that yarn. I would cry!
The yarn and swatch are so beautiful!
That looks lovely. The swatch makes such a difference I’m awful at imagining how a yarn will look worked up.
Looove the yarn you dyed.... soo pretty! And the swatch? Swoonworthy. =)
I would not have thought of detangling on the Swift-I will definitely remember that trick. Your main yarn kind of reminds me of Knitpicks Muse in the heathering and gradient.
I suspect your existing sweater is somewhere around a 2%dos. If you look at the acid dye section on acme fiber (Canada) you’ll see examples for different DOS for each acid dye color.
Thanks for showing us this, your yarn turned out so beautiful, we get to learn with you. ❤
Granted that you said the color doesn't show correctly on screen - I think it is beautiful!! And I like it even better than the original I must say ❤
Before you decide to recycle your dye container (it looks like a serving tray), drill some holes in the bottom to discourage anyone from using it to store food. If you have the patience, consider using a dremel tool to warn future users to never use it for food serving.
I absolutely love your happy mistakes. I think the colors are beautiful and when it comes to dyeing it's always a crap shoot unless of course you're a professional 😊 so happy knitting and just make it your own. Can't wait to see results. So sorry you have been so ill of late and pray that gets better for you soon.❤
What lovely colors, even if not what you intended! I agree - just beautiful!!! ♥️♥️♥️
With the high contrast to the cream, I think it could actually work with the sweater design, though I understand wanting to try matching more closely. I think snowflakes and deer on the slightly variegated background would look like they are being viewed against a landscape.
I think that the green is coming in part from the fact that the original yarn wasn’t white but rather a cream, though I could be wrong since I’m seeing onscreen colors, and didn’t see your mop-up results next to the sweater. But, I do know that dying is additive, so whatever the base color is will be added to the finished color. (This isn’t criticism; it’s simply intended as informative. I took a couple courses in color theory at university, and had another on coloring textiles using a variety of methods, including using methods in combination.)
The main colourand the mop ups are gorgeous!!
I love all three batch colours! ❤️🎄🇨🇦
I absolutely love the variegated colour you ended up with!
Since you said you've been watching ChemKnits, the removable zip ties she uses are amazing for making it easier to untangle your yarn.
If this ever happens again, just find the yarn ties, make sure the strands are not crossing over the ties ( so they are aligned in the right direction). Then put your hands in the middle of the skein and start to pull them apart. The yarn isn't knotted - it just needs pulling into the shape of the skein again. Remember if the ties aren't broken it's still a big circle! It just needs flattening out, as dome strands have tightened up.
Good heavens, you made it such a beautiful colour! I love the gradient/colour variation in it, I'm excited to see how it knits up in the sweater.
Dyeing experiments are such a great fun, I'd love to try dyeing some yarn as well. I have quite a lot of experience with dyeing cotton fabrics, but none with yarns... and I can't do wool. And looking into dyeing cotton yarns, there's not much encouraging information on it...
The yarns turned out so beautiful! I think the mottled colour will give a beautiful night sky look behind the reindeer in the finished sweater. Cannot wait to see the finished sweater, and also what the other yarns turn out to be. Happy almost Christmas!
Wow… those are such beautiful yarns!
you should do a course on how to modify vintage patterns
I hope you recover in time for Christmas, you definitely don't sound as if you have recovered completely yet.
And I love that dark, variegated colour. It looks really good in the sample and it still has plenty of contrast against the natural. I'm with you on disliking that very bright white for knitting, I always go for the natural white. (Shirts, including t-shirts are different, I'm quite happy with the pure white for them.)
Moving it and putting vinegar in towards the end will also give you a more even dye color. A lost less dye for sure. What you have is a beautiful variegated kettle dyed yarn. You can pull oversaturated yarn and put them into a clear bath simmer more and add more vinegar to set it. The best way to find out things work is to just practice. Your yarn is beautiful…and look how many other skeins too. 🌈🌈🦋🦋
Interesting looking soup 🍲. Super beautiful looking yarn 🧶. 🤓 Blue greens are my favorite too, and all of those colors that came out of the dye look nice to me. I am excited to see how the finished sweater will look. Take care.
Gorgeous colors!!
Oh wow, I ADORE all these colours. Definitely prefer the dark dye to the original jumper 😊 and those sock yarns are to die for.
Absolutely gorgeous color!!! My fav
That’s a happy mistake to make because the colour is gorgeous. I’m definitely wanting to add yarn dying to my list of projects to try
Is the superwash-treatment not making the yarn more difficult to die?
Actually superwash usually takes up dye better than untreated wool.
A bunch of lanaset teal 114, and a dash of lanaset azure, and boom- you’d be there.
I LOVE the color you achieved on the Swish DK, that is gorgeous.
It might not have been the same as your jumper, but it is a stunning colour and it would be a nice contrast with the cream☺️
It's teal, I love it❤❤❤
That vintage sweater color is very close to a medium saturation of Dharma dyes “frozen” just for future reference and to avoid having to mix colors. Perhaps desaturated slightly with a tiny bit of an orangey red in the dye stock.
Getting a good even saturation of color is done by putting the soaked yarn in when the dye bath is cool, then slowly warming it. Add the acid as you begin to warm it. Let it soak first, then slowly bring it up to temp to set the dye.
Also please please make sure you wear a full respirator anytime you’re working with powdered acid dyes. They are easily inhaled and can be extremely harmful to your lungs.
14 g of dye will dye 1.4kilograms (!!!!!!) of yarn at a nice standard depth of shade (1% DOS) !!!! Omg!!!!
I suspect your existing sweater is somewhere around a 2%dos. If you look at the acid dye section on acme fiber (Canada) you’ll see examples for different DOS for each acid dye color.
Ps: I think there is/was a ravelry group for people that enjoy detangling yarn (for other people!!)
Your videos are all so lovely. Thanks for sharing your journey with us.
I think the typical amount of dye to use is 1g per 100g of wool so you can save a lot of money and less dye into the environment if you use a bit less. I saw a great picture on the Ravelry Love to Dye group showing different intensities of colour based on grams of dye per 100g of wool, I don't have the link but you might like to look it up for future experiments.
Have you tried soaking in dye cold before heating it? The darker parts of the variegation are from where the wool is closest to the heat source when the dye strikes.. if you soak the yarn in the dye cold for a while and then only add some acid after it has had time to really soak in then it will reduce the variegation considerably because the dye strikes evenly. Roxanne Richardson showed an example of this recently (magenta coloured chunky project) and referred back to a video from Chemknits. I used cold dyeing with success earlier this year when I overdyed an FO. I have a UA-cam podcast and showed the post-dyed cold dyed FO in my October (I think!) video.
Good luck with all the untangling!! It isn't fun at all so I really empathise 😢
Oh, on the tangling. I had a really bad post-dye tangle too. And it happened with knitpicks yarn when I left their ties in place instead of adding my own. I don't think they add enough ties.
Those colors are my absolute favorites! Beautiful!
I appreciate you sharing your process🐥
stunning colour!
It's a beautiful color 😍❤
The dark color in the tangled hanks at least, looks like a Malabrigo tonal yarn! Score!!!
Oh, Honey! I dyed some Unger Plantation with tying the skeins in only 2 places. Yikes! Just a lot of hot-pink cotton spaghetti. It took hours to detangle but finally got it done.
I feel your pain.🧶🧶🧶
Oh! Love those colours....
What GORGEOUS colors!
Hi. Your meant to add extratyes to the hanks before dyeing
I love the dyed color yarn!
I asked my Mom, since she has done both chemical mixing and painted portraits in acrylics in her life time. She says your original sweater actually looks more like a desaturated Navy Blue - a lot of Navy Blues actually have just a bit of green in them, but it can be hard to tell when they are fully saturated. So maybe try a couple of different saturations with Jacquard Navy Blue and see what you get.
Putting yarn in the washing machine is always not recommended. One for tangles but it can felt from heat.
Washing in a sink is tedious but it’s safer.
I agree with other commenters. The more ties the better and in a 8 wrap. Even zip ties.
If you do only use 1 tie, there’s a snapping technique that can unstick and straighten the yarn.
I wish there was a bit more of an intro to the video with some context so it's easier to follow
The finished dye product is absolutely insanely beautiful
Haha that's actually a happy accident. Gorgeous color results and yarn mops. Normally for full saturation, I would've used 2.5g of each color for 5 skeins, or half that to start out and deepen if needed. I also soak the yarn in the color for at least an hour (after the normal pre-soak) for more even colors if I'm going for that. Also, if you need help untangling that mess still, let me know. Based on your LYS trip, I think you live an hour north of me?
The original color looks slightly muted. If you try this again, just throw in a tiny bit of the color’s complimentary color. Should be an yelllow-orange color. You’re looking for the color that is direct opposite on the color wheel.
The only thing I’m upset about is not being able to be the one untangling all that yarn 👀
It looks amazing regardless of everything
Usually 1 gram of dye per 100g of yarn is more than enough! 😅 but gorgeous color!
I wouldn't be upset with any of those colors.
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you should desaturate the color with a little bit of black dye, otherwise it's never gonna be right
On camera, the colors ar pretty darned close..
Hi. You should consider turning of the automatic translation feature in your settings. I am German and recently a lot of my favorite English speaking creators suddenly have automatically translated German titles and descriptions. Some sound ok, some sound weird and some are just plain wrong. This video has the title ‚A mistake to die for‘. I don’t know if that’s the original title because I cannot see it. As a viewer I cannot turn this feature off (which is infuriating). The title was translated into German word by word. I assume you meant that the mistake is ‚to die for‘ in the sense that it’s really good. Unfortunate that does not translate into German like that. If you say ‚to die for’ it literally means ‚to die for‘. This title makes no sense in German and sounds like it’s actually about dying somehow.
So PLEASE consider turning off this feature. It’s not ready to be used and UA-cam shouldn’t have launched it IMO. As a viewer it’s super annoying. Thank you !
Edit. I now realized that it’s a pun with dye and die. Obviously puns don’t translate 😅
Okay I had to stop the video and comment, that is *Way* too much dye, you are wasting so much and running the risk of having a lot of bleeding. I hope this works out! Now I am going to go back and watch the rest of the video.