this tutorial is so exciting! I bought some pale colored skeins and was looking for a way to may a variegated tonal type yarn with some serious irregularity and intense color and this is it! so excited for my wiltons violet dying session!
Hi Rebecca from Chemknits ...I really like your tutorial a lot ...watch all of them ...keep them in my folder for further help .....Very much appreciated !!!!!! ....only a little thanks out to you from Canada
Would it be possible, upon seeing the large amount of white, to put back in the dye bath and use the speckle technique with these 2 colors, to scatter some speckles to offset the white ... I mean without going thru the process of drying it? Or even immediately handpaint some of the white with both dyes on a fork or paintbrush and re-steam it??? So intriguing for us color lovers!
ChemKnits Tutorials it looks amazing! I have used salt. it works but you have to be careful not to over do it. I have used for getting the color to go in deeper into roving so that it doesnt have white sections in the middle.
Please do explore more along this concept. I feel like this could produce some amazing yarn! Of course, I might be biased due to an unreasonable affection for magenta-purple-blue combinations. I wonder what this yarn would look like if you were to dye it in a similar manner to this, getting color breaking with that magenta-purple-blue colorway, then adding in handpainted splashes of a vivid lime green into some of the white areas. Can you get a neon, super bright neon green? I'm just babbling, but I think the results could be interesting!
It turned out beautifully
Thank you so much!
It is always a surprise! So much fun! Thank you to share!
this tutorial is so exciting! I bought some pale colored skeins and was looking for a way to may a variegated tonal type yarn with some serious irregularity and intense color and this is it! so excited for my wiltons violet dying session!
Hi Rebecca from Chemknits ...I really like your tutorial a lot ...watch all of them ...keep them in my folder for further help .....Very much appreciated !!!!!! ....only a little thanks out to you from Canada
Can you do a video showing all the things you've knitted out of the yarns you dye?
Very pretty 😍Would love to see what you made with this 😍
Would it be possible, upon seeing the large amount of white, to put back in the dye bath and use the speckle technique with these 2 colors, to scatter some speckles to offset the white ... I mean without going thru the process of drying it? Or even immediately handpaint some of the white with both dyes on a fork or paintbrush and re-steam it???
So intriguing for us color lovers!
BarbaraL Lowell oh absolutely! I am usually limited by naptimes so I have to wait for a different day to do another dyeing technique. :)
lovely x
you can also use SALT to delay the color absorption. so that more dye gets to the inside but there is still plenty of white!
I've read about that but haven't tried salt yet. This "failure" is still a mystery to me, but the yarn itself is pretty cool looking.
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it looks amazing! I have used salt. it works but you have to be careful not to over do it. I have used for getting the color to go in deeper into roving so that it doesnt have white sections in the middle.
Question : Are you using as well more professional dye ? or do you prefer only food color ?
have you dyed yarn with rit fabric dye .or tintex dye if so how do you dye it.
Please do explore more along this concept. I feel like this could produce some amazing yarn! Of course, I might be biased due to an unreasonable affection for magenta-purple-blue combinations.
I wonder what this yarn would look like if you were to dye it in a similar manner to this, getting color breaking with that magenta-purple-blue colorway, then adding in handpainted splashes of a vivid lime green into some of the white areas. Can you get a neon, super bright neon green? I'm just babbling, but I think the results could be interesting!