My suggestion would be to sprinkle the dry dye powder in the bottom of the steam pan, then add the dry yarn, and sprinkle more dye powder on top. Pour the warm water on and then heat it and leave it alone and let the dyes spread as they will on bottom and top.
Hey, Jules here.. OMG... LOVE! LOVE! LOVE! I gasped in delight when I opened the package. These skeins are so me. I really enjoyed being your lab partner for such a different technique and watching you dye these beautiful skeins in my fave colors. Thank you, Rebecca!
Jules - thank you so much for being my Lab partner for this video! I"m so so glad you loved how the yarn turned out. I enjoy seeing what colors my LP's like and trying to come up with something that would be fun. I'm going to have to use these blues together again!
Beautiful! This looks fun to do. :) I was thinking, if you get frustrated sometimes when you have to add more and more dye to get the right colour, maybe if you reproduce this technique, you can weight the dye container before and after speckling the yarn. That way, you will have a better idea of how much dye you need. Just a thought. :)
My instinct for this technique would be to spread out one skein, sprinkle dry dye, spread out another skein on top, sprinkle dye, repeat. Then pour acid water over everything and heat. No touching :) I have done this in a crock pot and found the effects to be fun!
Love these colors so much! Reminded me of favorite shirt that I had in my childhood. This technique is great. I thought the dry powder and then dip dyeing was my favorite, but now its this!
I tried this today, it was really fun and zero preparation needed. Really quick and very beautiful. Thank you for sharing this! X Michelle from the Netherlands
Oh there's a lot of cool ways to potentially adapt this technique! I want to try it, but I'll have to resist the urge to use my sprayer on my sink to add the water LOL. I'd get the coverage, but I'd dye my wall! But maybe like...a watering can? To distribute the water in a more 'rain' type of way, to cover more of the surface area at once 🤔
And another gorgeous colorway! I see lots of suggestions in the comments for variations on this technique. I want to see them all. I like the idea of turning the yarn before adding the water, and sprinkling more dry powder on the other side. Also, could you work the dry powder down into the skein somehow? With your fingers, or the tongs, or maybe a fork?
Oh my! This is fantastic! I ADORE cool colorways and this is no exception. I was thinking as you flipped the yarn ‘I wonder how yarn with really saturated colors on one side and pastel on the other would work up?’ 😂 please do this again! With any yarn/colors/ i mean everything. This looks so fun and….different. I love it!
Oh thank you! I often don't love to leave a TON of white space because usually it would be really asymmetric, but I also haven't done a big swatch test on it.
You used this technique with a ZipLoc bag that turned out great. Also, this technique works wonderfully with fiber reactive dyes on cellulose fibers as well. How fun is this!!!
I thought this was super interesting, especially because it seemed as if you used less dye powder than you usually do to achieve what I would consider a “medium” saturated color way. Perhaps this is a way to use less dye? And waiting on adding the acid seemed to help a lot, too. I’m always so anxious to get the acid in there. LOL
I pretty exclusively use direct dye powder application, I always seem to have issues with solutions, and I've found that suits my style best. Usually it's low immersion though.
I tend to love to use dry dye directly... unless I'm not in the mood to use my respirator then I go for more premixed colors. I think it is super versatile and ends up with less overall extra dye around.
I think this technique would be so cool to make an impersionistic painting vibe. I was looking at some paintings and found one by Anne Samson called "Vincent trifft Claude". It's your colors, happy and bright.
If you added less water and covered the pan with a lid, then lightly simmered the yarn, maybe the steam & bubbles would dissolve the dye in more concentrated areas.
What do you think about the idea of sprinkling dry dye powder on the bottom of the pan before you place the dry yarn in? Do you think that would help with coverage on the bottom side?
This is something that I think I try is something that is coming up. Or at least flipping the yarn before adding the water. So this is an EXCELLENT suggestion!
I am interested what would happen if you put the dry powder on the dry yarn throughout as you place it into the pan followed with liquid dye. Then you would not have to turn the yarn for a second round.
My suggestion would be to sprinkle the dry dye powder in the bottom of the steam pan, then add the dry yarn, and sprinkle more dye powder on top. Pour the warm water on and then heat it and leave it alone and let the dyes spread as they will on bottom and top.
I had a similar thought -- I'm glad you put words to it!
That would be fun!! 🤩
Hey, Jules here.. OMG... LOVE! LOVE! LOVE! I gasped in delight when I opened the package. These skeins are so me. I really enjoyed being your lab partner for such a different technique and watching you dye these beautiful skeins in my fave colors. Thank you, Rebecca!
Jules - thank you so much for being my Lab partner for this video! I"m so so glad you loved how the yarn turned out. I enjoy seeing what colors my LP's like and trying to come up with something that would be fun. I'm going to have to use these blues together again!
I’d love to see you do this, or any variation of this, with ALL the colors! 😉
OOooo that would be super fun!
This was really fun to watch, and it turned out so beautifully! I love your idea of using a spray bottle on dry powder!
I kind of liked how it looked marbled when you first flipped it. Streaks of white help the colors pop.
Leftover white dye is VERY controversial lol. Some people LOVE it when I leave some white other people hate it.
That was fun. I would love to see patches of autumn colours applied like this. Stay safe.
Beautiful! This looks fun to do. :) I was thinking, if you get frustrated sometimes when you have to add more and more dye to get the right colour, maybe if you reproduce this technique, you can weight the dye container before and after speckling the yarn. That way, you will have a better idea of how much dye you need. Just a thought. :)
Oh my goodness - what a good idea to make sure you get the amount of dye you wanted!
The colors remind me of the ocean. I think I have found my inspiration colors for my first attempts at dying roving. Thanks for sharing!
This is cool. I’ve seen dry powder put on the bottom of the pan and then add wet yarn/fiber and then sprinkle the top.
This sounds fun, too!!
My instinct for this technique would be to spread out one skein, sprinkle dry dye, spread out another skein on top, sprinkle dye, repeat. Then pour acid water over everything and heat. No touching :) I have done this in a crock pot and found the effects to be fun!
This sounds SUPER fun! I like the idea of more powder before adding water.
I LOVE that color palette!!!
Me too! ❤❤❤
Thank you! I Adore how it turned out.
Love these colors so much! Reminded me of favorite shirt that I had in my childhood. This technique is great. I thought the dry powder and then dip dyeing was my favorite, but now its this!
Thanks so much 😊
I tried this today, it was really fun and zero preparation needed. Really quick and very beautiful. Thank you for sharing this!
X Michelle from the Netherlands
I’ve been doing this bunches since the video surfaced. It’s quickly becoming my fav way to dye. I love it with non Superwash too.
It would be awesome on non-superwash!
Oh there's a lot of cool ways to potentially adapt this technique! I want to try it, but I'll have to resist the urge to use my sprayer on my sink to add the water LOL. I'd get the coverage, but I'd dye my wall! But maybe like...a watering can? To distribute the water in a more 'rain' type of way, to cover more of the surface area at once 🤔
And another gorgeous colorway! I see lots of suggestions in the comments for variations on this technique. I want to see them all. I like the idea of turning the yarn before adding the water, and sprinkling more dry powder on the other side. Also, could you work the dry powder down into the skein somehow? With your fingers, or the tongs, or maybe a fork?
Oh my! This is fantastic! I ADORE cool colorways and this is no exception. I was thinking as you flipped the yarn ‘I wonder how yarn with really saturated colors on one side and pastel on the other would work up?’ 😂 please do this again! With any yarn/colors/ i mean everything. This looks so fun and….different. I love it!
Oh thank you! I often don't love to leave a TON of white space because usually it would be really asymmetric, but I also haven't done a big swatch test on it.
Thanks!
Thank you so much, Gina!
I always dye straight from powder, I never thought to try dry yarn as well. This will be fun to try out
It was super fun!
I SO want to see that yarn mop dipped into some black!! Or maybe, black dye drizzled into an S or 8 on it.
You used this technique with a ZipLoc bag that turned out great. Also, this technique works wonderfully with fiber reactive dyes on cellulose fibers as well. How fun is this!!!
Was the yarn dry at the beginning of the zip lock bag? That's what I couldn't remember, lol. It may have been.
@@ChemKnitsTutorials, yes. The yarn was dry.
btw I often use fiber reactive on wool of course with heat and acid, but it works really great just not as dramatic colors as on cottons.
I thought this was super interesting, especially because it seemed as if you used less dye powder than you usually do to achieve what I would consider a “medium” saturated color way. Perhaps this is a way to use less dye? And waiting on adding the acid seemed to help a lot, too. I’m always so anxious to get the acid in there. LOL
I pretty exclusively use direct dye powder application, I always seem to have issues with solutions, and I've found that suits my style best. Usually it's low immersion though.
I tend to love to use dry dye directly... unless I'm not in the mood to use my respirator then I go for more premixed colors. I think it is super versatile and ends up with less overall extra dye around.
So pretty! I would like to see this again without pushing the yarn by hand.
Thank you! 😊 And that's a great idea. I'd love to do that but flipping the dry yarn and adding more dye to it before adding water.
So beautiful love love the softness in the colors.
Thanks so much 😊
This is a great technique. Very pretty yarn as a result! Thanks for showing us this.
Thank you! 😊
This looks like so much fun!!! Definitely going to have to give this technique a try this weekend!
Have fun!!
I think I want to see this on twisted skeins with Purple Pop, and maybe a black. I wonder if the purple would break, or how to make it break? 🤔
This would be super fun on top of twisted skeins!
@@ChemKnitsTutorials I'm seriously tempted to try it tonight
Ooohhhh.... maybe a pop of Radioactive?? Lots of ideas!
Interesting technique 😍
I think this technique would be so cool to make an impersionistic painting vibe. I was looking at some paintings and found one by Anne Samson called "Vincent trifft Claude". It's your colors, happy and bright.
It does! and thank you!
So pretty, I'm going to try this technique for sure
Love this
I would love to see you do this again with not adding acid until the end.
That would be awesome, too!
I'm intrigued by the idea of this technique on unspun fiber. Pouring the water might need to be done more carefully.
Ooooo... I tried something sort of like that once with a batt. I dropped liquid dye and the sprayed it with more dye and acid once.
If you added less water and covered the pan with a lid, then lightly simmered the yarn, maybe the steam & bubbles would dissolve the dye in more concentrated areas.
Ooo that could be cool - but with the yarn already dry I might worry a tiny bit about burning some yarn... unless I had it as a double boiler maybe?
What do you think about the idea of sprinkling dry dye powder on the bottom of the pan before you place the dry yarn in? Do you think that would help with coverage on the bottom side?
This is something that I think I try is something that is coming up. Or at least flipping the yarn before adding the water. So this is an EXCELLENT suggestion!
I am interested what would happen if you put the dry powder on the dry yarn throughout as you place it into the pan followed with liquid dye. Then you would not have to turn the yarn for a second round.
Someone else suggested putting dry powder on the bottom of the pan first, but this also sounds super interesting to me! I'm writing this down.
@@ChemKnitsTutorials I'm going to try it! Black or navy (or both?) On top and bottom with liquid purple pop.😎
I wonder how this would work with silk fibers. 🤔
ooo... I'm not sure. Especially since silk can take so much longer to get wet... but it could be really cool.
What if you would put the dry powder on and add liquid dye on top?
Adding liquid dye on top instead of water is a fun idea!
❤so beautiful
Thank you! 😊
what if you turned the dry yarn and added dye powder before adding water.?
I think I want to try this next!