There are some new ChemKnits Chanukah sampler options! www.etsy.com/shop/chemknitscreations/?section_id=25065368 Full size samplers in both fingering and DK weight yarn, 100 g add on skeins, and even some 10 g minis from 2019!
I'm not entirely sure how to best organize a color mixing exercise with more than 3 colors yet, but I'm mulling it over. I think if I go bigger I would likely use these three again but wit hmore transitional shades (especially closest to the primaries.)
Please do like a thousand more of these type of videos! I literally am obsessed with them. Also, how about a giant Hexagon with black in the middle and non primary colours on all the vertices? or even a Hexagon single colour group study, i.e and exploration of warm colours , so a florescent pink in the middle and 6 reds/burgundy/oranges etc on the vertices.
I was thinking about trying some kind of hexagon at some point, but I'd have to figure out exactly what I'd want to mix. Lol. I'm more likely to try a larger triangle first so we can see more of the mix of all 3 colors in the center. I need more containers, but otherwise it shouldn't be too hard to scale it up. (I'm not planning on trying this until 2021 though.)
I really enjoy these triangle colour mixing episodes. I would love seeing what the colours would look like if you used a more saturated yellow (say 2%) to give it a fighting chance against the other two 1% primaries. In today's triangle there really was only one version of yellow out of the 15. Maybe if the yellow primary was more saturated you would get a couple of other yellowish colours too. I love your experiments, they are fascinating!
Poor yellow, it is often the odd duckling! I am seeing a lot of requests to put more balance in a triangle. This wasn't something that I was planning, but the more of these comments come in the more likely I am to try it! What I am planning on doing are creating a balanced rainbow set of minis someday. - so I wouldn't have the mixtures of all 3, but I would work to have something transition between the colors somewhat smoothly, all the way to yellow and back out again.
I think the first time I do this with fiber reactive dyes, I might use wool just because I have many wool based miniskeins ready to go... however at some point I'll make a bunch of cotton minis to try this on cotton.
Another great video and yes do bigger triangles. I'm not good with color mixing either so I enjoy seeing you do them. I've already purchased alot of dyes but when I want a color that I can't get with dharma this helps me to understand what mixing I might need to do to create that color like maroon or wine color. Thanks again for all you do!
A bigger triangle will help with that a lot more. I think one thing that surprises me the most is when colors that are SO BRIGHT combine to be something so muted. I mean, I understand a bit why, but it still surprises and delights me every time.
Thank you, Paula! One big reason why I want to do a larger triangle is so we can see more samples between 3Y:1P etc (so maybe even 9Y:1P or even a smaller gap.) I have to think the best way to set this up but I have some ideas. there's one more triangle video coming out in December I think, but then there likely wouldn't be another one until Feb/March at the earliest since I'm not working on any right now. :D
I would love more as I’m using these to help my boys understand color theory. We homeschool so I can use all the help I can get with art as it wasn’t a strong point for me in school and I’m learning with them.
I absolutely love these colors. I’m a total color girl and this helps me to see what colors I need from Jacquard instead of guessing from the online color squares. I’d love to see this process done again and add black for shades. Thanks so much.
I'm also curious about adding black. I need to think how to best set something up with 4 colors.... I have some ideas but thye still need to be fleshed out.
Hi Rebecca, I really enjoy your videos. Thanks for sharing your experiences. I've been doing an online weave-along called Discover Color. Tien Chiu and Janet Dawson are the instructors. Tien is amazing with color. I have learned that when you add the 3 "primary" colors, (yellow, red, blue or yellow, magenta, cyan) you will get gray. I found it applied to the 3 inner skeins that you died. It's fun to learn new things.
yes, I think you can get a gray if the colors are all in equal proportions. I think it would be hard to figure out that recipe exactly with the dyes, but I'm sure people have done it!
Fantastic video! I had color theory in college and it truly helps you understand that blue & red doesn’t necessarily produce purple. Really helps those with kinesthetic learning style. Would love to see more!!!
I find color mixing for dyeing similar to color mixing with watercolors. It also depends on which set of primaries you choose. You can mix more with magenta, cyan, and yellow compared to red, yellow, and blue but to get the exact color you're looking for can be a bit more difficult to get portions right as it typically takes more magenta and cyan to get the deeper shades.
I really should watch some water color videos, but I agree, the way the colors blend is a lot more like those than acyrlic paint or something like that. I LOVE the range that we can get with these colors and I think this is my preferred triangle over the RBY.
@@ChemKnitsTutorials there are lots of great watercolorists on UA-cam. I really like watching Regina's Watercolors for mixing though. She makes her own paints and they are what I learned color theory with with the secondary primaries.
I think that would be a lot harder to do, mainly based on the hues I have access to at the moment... BUT it would be interesting for sure! Who knows what the combinations would do!
Lol. It has to be in my house SOMEWHERE!! It is this silly cheap clip light with a bulb in it and I cannot find it anywhere! Probably under a huge box of yarn or something. Lol.
Oh yes! I think that if I wanted to try to go more muted I would go for something like a raspberry/burgundy, navy, and maybe a brown or something as the yellow. (Thinking food coloring wise, wilton Base Brown, Base Black, and Crimson would give a lovely rainbow I think.)
I haven't used all 15 colors, but I do have some videos that should be released in early 2021 that include mixing based on this video. Multiple videos, actually!
Thank you so much for this video. Currently I am using food colouring to dye my yarn and have wanted a true blue. All I get is turquoise! After your video I mixed magenta with turquoise and got a beautiful true blue. I subscribed to Dive into Dyeing and have all three boxes but haven’t used the dyes yet. Will do so soon though. Thanks again.
I'm so glad this was helpful! I have a few food coloring triangle videos (well one has been published that is more like this, with Pink Blue and Yellow, and then another with Crimson instead of pink will be out in December)
This is really cool and I am so glad you have been doing the Triangle exercises. I think it would be really helpful if you could show us how you would go about balancing the colors. It would be interesting to compare the different dye types and brands and see how they compare and ballance. I think it would also be helpful to expand it once you have it balanced.
For me, the purpose of this exercise is to understand the balance between the primaries so then I can more easily mix the colors to get the hues I want. I don't have plans at the moment to rebalance the triangle exactly in this type of exercise... although if people keep requesting it then I will! (I have added it to my list.) If I were to rebalance the triangle, it would be harder for me to look at the photo and understand the proportion of colors needed. That being said, I do plan to use this information in future videos to mix the colors I want for a project, and reference what I know from the color mixing exercise. Maybe the balanced triangle should be something for me to do if I want to create a huge rainbow project out of minis.... that is a way for me to think about it I think! I have a video I'm working on where I use these results to calculate how much color I want to use to create the specific hue since I know that the 1:1 ratio isn't quite what I want.
At the end of the video I pulled the colors I thought would work well for a balanced rainbow, and these are the hues I'd mix if I was going to handpaint a rainbow with these three primaries. I plan to film something like that.
Oh yes. I'm not sure which of the blues is the primary for the more cyan color, I'll have to check the website. I'm a bit warry of caribbean blue! lol.
I absolutely love these color triangles! I do want to see more, and would love to see a bigger triangle, if you have enough containers. With the Tulip artisan tie dye kit (turquoise, yellow, magenta, and black), it gives a color mixing guide, and a mixing bottle.
I've seen those kits but I don't think I've ever purchased one... I plan to buy containers to do a bigger triangle at some point. Maybe this would be a good patreon poll for what dyes to use. But I'm going to wait until 2021 for sure! :D
Hello! I would love to see a dye triangle done with Rit dyes on cotton and wool. I was inspired by your project and tried it on my own using Lemon Yellow, Scarlet, and Royal Blue with Palette from KnitPicks. I only used 1 tsp of dye in each cup but it was WAY too much dye. I would love to see what you get. Cheers!
It would be a lot of fun to do this with Rit. 1 tsp of rit dyes in each color is a LOT of pigment. I learned the hard way from my early projects about how much was too much.
A few of you have suggested trying something like this! :D My hypothesis is that the red is more pigmented than fuschia, and blue is more pigmented than turquoise. So swapping one of those colors would really make the triangle lean a certain way. This could absolutely be worth doing (maybe as a big hexagon or something) because the hues you can get will vary. One thing I missed pointing out in this video that I only noticed in editing. the 3:1 Turqoise:Fuschia looks like the brilliant blue. That row of colors looks so similar to the edge of the first triangle.
@@ChemKnitsTutorials The amount of content you have been producing is phominal ‼ I have know idea how you've kept up the pace with how much else has been going on. 👍🦘💖
Loved this! I would also like to see a larger triangle. I’m also curious whether the triangle would be more balanced with replacing the fuchsia with the red or the turquoise with the blue.
I think that overall, the reason why this is more balanced is that the fuchsia and turquoise are less saturated overall than the red and blue. so I predict that doing a P/R or T/B swap would result in the balance of the triangle leaning in one of those directions.
I'm not sure! There's a chance they'll end up in the shop at some point, but I'm also considering making myself some swatch cards out of them to save as a reference.
Jacquard Turquoise (as well as Dharma's Caribbean Blue) is Acid Blue 7, and Jacquard Hot Fuchsia (and Dharma Flourescent Fuchsia) are Acid Red 52, according to their websites.
Thank you!!! I know that this information is out there, but without it being on the labels of the jars I don't have a reinforced memory of the different pigments.
This was so great to see, and has been on my mind for the last week! Have you or would you do something like this with Kool-aid? I want to get into acid dyes some day, when I find a European grosser of undyed yarn so I can dye some bigger quantities. As of now, Kool-aid is easier to dabble in. I did do a black bean dye bath that worked out great too!
I haven't done KoolAid, but I have done Color Right Food coloring. I find that KoolAid would be pretty expensive for something like this. I can say for sure that one packet of cherry koolaid is SIGNIFCANTLY more pigmented than the yellow lemonade (which is pretty pastel)
I have these dyes now and I'm so excited to make my own skeins and do this. I had this thought of with them being 10ml per cup instead of going 10 ml 7.5ml 5ml 2.5ml then 0 I'm going yo try it by 10ml then go down to 8ml then 6ml then 4ml then 2ml then 1ml. I will need to draw it out and I'm too excited haha I really need to wind up some skeins though. I just love color mixing. Although I'm not sure how to go about a massive square with just 3 colors. Any suggestions or tips would be amazing!!
The cups are 16 oz deli containers, I think. most of them are recycled from food delivery orders! I haven't purchased any.(However once they've been claimed from ChemKnits they're never used for food ever again.)
Beautiful video!!! I wonder if food coloring is an acid dye, don't you need some mordant for the color not to go? Does it last longer? Thank you for your videos
Food coloring is an acid dye. You don't need a mordant like you do with many natural pigments. Commercial acid dyes will last long than food coloring because they've been developed for dyeing fiber (versus for consumption.) It just happens that artificial food coloring is an acid dye so you can use very similar techniques.
This rainbow is beautiful. :) I suggest that, if it is of interest, you use the yellow, the magenta/fuschia and the blue for a future triangle experiment, i.e. using the less dominant hues, and see how they mix together. ^_^ I think that this cool vat technique may "reconcile" you with fiber reactive dyes and cellulose fibers. :) The grey-like sample looks a lot like the Black 628 from ProChem fiber reactive dye. When making the solution, I observed that it was made from the three primaries.
oh cool RE the Black 628! I need to try prochem dyes someday. I think that the brilliant blue is a LOT more pigmented than turquoise, so I would expect that would give us a very blue weighted triangle. BUT it is hard to know without trying, for sure.
Yes - I have no information about the timeline, though. (KnitCrate didn't let me know the last time it restocked, I only found out because one of you told me!) At launch KnitCrate told me the intent was to have this as an evergreen product that was always available.
Your channel satisfies my devil's advocate scientist in me so much thank you! I'd love to be devil's advocate with you and now am curious after hearing you talk about color transfer... Any chance we can try to do a "happy accidents" experiment, where we try to find out the "rules" to purposefully wanting color bleeding to achieve a blending fade, a new color in general, and/or "speckling" by color bleeding??
OOoo.... this is intreaguing, but I'm honestly not sure at all why the transfer showed up as speckles - normally if transfer happens the splotches are bigger. There is a chance that the blue transferred onto the yarn before I put it in the cups - I may have had some blue powder still on the counter that I wasn't aware of. It would be hard for me to do this intentionally since I'm not quite sure how it happened accidentally! However, if something comes up that I think I can reproducer then I will try!
Why do all dyers when doing rainbow spectrum skip the colors Yellow-Green? Yellow-Orange? Anyone who mixes colors can tell that you barely need any red or blue added to yellow to make all those colors in between. If you look at the rainbow as a gray scale then you see how skewed the other colors are to the yellow. Yellow would be 15% gray, that green is 70% gray so the transitions are jarringly abrupt from the switch of yellow to the green.
I like to do this particular exercise to get a good sense of ratios for speicfic dyes. If I want to get a yellow orange with these colors, I might use 1 part pink : 9 parts yellow ( or maybe even do 1:19.) This is by no means a compelte rainbow, the poor yellow is very spearated from the other colors!
There are some new ChemKnits Chanukah sampler options! www.etsy.com/shop/chemknitscreations/?section_id=25065368 Full size samplers in both fingering and DK weight yarn, 100 g add on skeins, and even some 10 g minis from 2019!
Where can you find a acid dye mixing chart? I have one that's a Circle but jet black, hot pink and sun yellow. Show the colors.
chiming in to agree that I would love to have more of these type videos. larger triangles, 4 or 5 colors instead of just 3.
I'm not entirely sure how to best organize a color mixing exercise with more than 3 colors yet, but I'm mulling it over. I think if I go bigger I would likely use these three again but wit hmore transitional shades (especially closest to the primaries.)
Please do like a thousand more of these type of videos! I literally am obsessed with them. Also, how about a giant Hexagon with black in the middle and non primary colours on all the vertices? or even a Hexagon single colour group study, i.e and exploration of warm colours , so a florescent pink in the middle and 6 reds/burgundy/oranges etc on the vertices.
I was thinking about trying some kind of hexagon at some point, but I'd have to figure out exactly what I'd want to mix. Lol. I'm more likely to try a larger triangle first so we can see more of the mix of all 3 colors in the center. I need more containers, but otherwise it shouldn't be too hard to scale it up. (I'm not planning on trying this until 2021 though.)
I really enjoy these triangle colour mixing episodes. I would love seeing what the colours would look like if you used a more saturated yellow (say 2%) to give it a fighting chance against the other two 1% primaries. In today's triangle there really was only one version of yellow out of the 15. Maybe if the yellow primary was more saturated you would get a couple of other yellowish colours too. I love your experiments, they are fascinating!
Poor yellow, it is often the odd duckling! I am seeing a lot of requests to put more balance in a triangle. This wasn't something that I was planning, but the more of these comments come in the more likely I am to try it!
What I am planning on doing are creating a balanced rainbow set of minis someday. - so I wouldn't have the mixtures of all 3, but I would work to have something transition between the colors somewhat smoothly, all the way to yellow and back out again.
I love these color exercises, so, yes more please!
You got it!
I love these exercises, especially in both food coloring AND acid dye..
There is a food coloring one coming up in December! I think. It hasnt been edited yet.
Í love those triangle mixing videos. Please do more of them.
Will do!
I really enjoy these videos and would love to see more and yes, bigger triangles!!! Great discussion too, thx !
Awesome, thank you!
Another great tutorial, Rebecca. Thank you.
Thank you for watching! I'm so glad you liked it.
I would live to hear more thoughts on dying cotton yarn. Or cotton mixes.
I think the first time I do this with fiber reactive dyes, I might use wool just because I have many wool based miniskeins ready to go... however at some point I'll make a bunch of cotton minis to try this on cotton.
So very bright. I really like 👍. Seeing both together I think I like the the one with the red the best.
Thanks so much 😊 It is funny, when I was dyeing I felt they looked very similar, but they are actually quite different once you compare them.
The color triangles are so fun and very informative. Yes more of these please. I find it fascinating seeing how the colors combine.
You got it! I worry that they'll feel repetitive but I love the process of these videos so much!
Yeah, I LOVE these.
I cannot wait to see a bigger Jacquard triangle
I'm (fingers crossed) planning to work on this in January.
Absolutely! I would love to see this repeated in any other types you can think of! And of course, extend away!
YAY!
Yes! It would be awesome if you did this in a bigger triangle! I can't get enough of the traingle rainbow color mixing experiments.
I'm so glad. I absolutely love these and don't want them to feel repetitive or boring. But it is so fun to do!
Excellent demonstration. Thank you for posting.
You are welcome!
Another great video and yes do bigger triangles. I'm not good with color mixing either so I enjoy seeing you do them. I've already purchased alot of dyes but when I want a color that I can't get with dharma this helps me to understand what mixing I might need to do to create that color like maroon or wine color. Thanks again for all you do!
A bigger triangle will help with that a lot more. I think one thing that surprises me the most is when colors that are SO BRIGHT combine to be something so muted. I mean, I understand a bit why, but it still surprises and delights me every time.
I do enjoy these, but I like them spaced out. I'd love to see some where you double or triple the yellow in comparison to red and blue.
Thank you, Paula! One big reason why I want to do a larger triangle is so we can see more samples between 3Y:1P etc (so maybe even 9Y:1P or even a smaller gap.) I have to think the best way to set this up but I have some ideas.
there's one more triangle video coming out in December I think, but then there likely wouldn't be another one until Feb/March at the earliest since I'm not working on any right now. :D
Yes, yes, yes I really want to see this with fiber reactive dyes.
I hope to play a lot with fiber reactive dyes in 2021. Fingers crossed I have plenty of dyeing time!
I would love more as I’m using these to help my boys understand color theory. We homeschool so I can use all the help I can get with art as it wasn’t a strong point for me in school and I’m learning with them.
You can do this with food coloring, too! :D
The colors are so beautiful
Thank you! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the way these mixed and see why most printers use cyan and magenta!
This is so helpful to me. Would love to see more examples with acid and fiber reactive dyes.
Yay! I now have 3 primaries of fiber reactive dyes so I can try this that way at some point.
They’re so gorgeous!!!
Thank you!
I'd love to see bigger color triangle! I like experimenting like this
Yay! I will have to think about the best way to expand it, but it will be fun.
I absolutely love these colors. I’m a total color girl and this helps me to see what colors I need from Jacquard instead of guessing from the online color squares. I’d love to see this process done again and add black for shades. Thanks so much.
I'm also curious about adding black. I need to think how to best set something up with 4 colors.... I have some ideas but thye still need to be fleshed out.
I love these type of videos. Please do more🎉
Thank you!
I literally just received these dyes in last night. I bought them to try this exact technique after watching your videos. I’m sooooo tickled
That is awesome!
YES do more please! Love it.
I'm so glad!
I have found that these and dip dyes are my favorites! Thank you!
You are so welcome!
You made some really gorgeous colors! I would love to see bigger triangles as well as the unrelated color mixing sounds interesting also.
I am super excited to have 10 million minis. Lol.
Hi Rebecca, I really enjoy your videos. Thanks for sharing your experiences. I've been doing an online weave-along called Discover Color. Tien Chiu and Janet Dawson are the instructors. Tien is amazing with color. I have learned that when you add the 3 "primary" colors, (yellow, red, blue or yellow, magenta, cyan) you will get gray. I found it applied to the 3 inner skeins that you died. It's fun to learn new things.
yes, I think you can get a gray if the colors are all in equal proportions. I think it would be hard to figure out that recipe exactly with the dyes, but I'm sure people have done it!
Fantastic video! I had color theory in college and it truly helps you understand that blue & red doesn’t necessarily produce purple. Really helps those with kinesthetic learning style. Would love to see more!!!
I really really need to read some color theory stuff. It's on my someday list, but these mixing videos are helping me so much!
I find color mixing for dyeing similar to color mixing with watercolors. It also depends on which set of primaries you choose. You can mix more with magenta, cyan, and yellow compared to red, yellow, and blue but to get the exact color you're looking for can be a bit more difficult to get portions right as it typically takes more magenta and cyan to get the deeper shades.
I really should watch some water color videos, but I agree, the way the colors blend is a lot more like those than acyrlic paint or something like that. I LOVE the range that we can get with these colors and I think this is my preferred triangle over the RBY.
@@ChemKnitsTutorials there are lots of great watercolorists on UA-cam. I really like watching Regina's Watercolors for mixing though. She makes her own paints and they are what I learned color theory with with the secondary primaries.
I love these triangles!! One with natural dye would be cool
I think that would be a lot harder to do, mainly based on the hues I have access to at the moment... BUT it would be interesting for sure! Who knows what the combinations would do!
love the color triangles! more please!
YAY!!!
I am new to learn dying and the process. I guess I remembered more of my info from art classes than I realized.
Welcome to the channel! I try to check the comments most days to answer questions, so let me know if I can help.
Love these experiments.
Thank you so much!
Bigger triangles sounds interesting!
I have to think how I'd want the proportions to go. :D
We need a GoFundMe page to get ChemKnits a new black light 😂
Lol. It has to be in my house SOMEWHERE!! It is this silly cheap clip light with a bulb in it and I cannot find it anywhere! Probably under a huge box of yarn or something. Lol.
I love these color mixing videos. Hoping for a large triangle. Is it possible to do a muted rainbow?
Oh yes! I think that if I wanted to try to go more muted I would go for something like a raspberry/burgundy, navy, and maybe a brown or something as the yellow. (Thinking food coloring wise, wilton Base Brown, Base Black, and Crimson would give a lovely rainbow I think.)
I would love to see you mix up these fifteen dye mixtures again and then handpaint or layer or something with them. Maybe create a fade set?
I haven't used all 15 colors, but I do have some videos that should be released in early 2021 that include mixing based on this video. Multiple videos, actually!
Thank you so much for this video. Currently I am using food colouring to dye my yarn and have wanted a true blue. All I get is turquoise! After your video I mixed magenta with turquoise and got a beautiful true blue. I subscribed to Dive into Dyeing and have all three boxes but haven’t used the dyes yet. Will do so soon though. Thanks again.
I'm so glad this was helpful! I have a few food coloring triangle videos (well one has been published that is more like this, with Pink Blue and Yellow, and then another with Crimson instead of pink will be out in December)
This is really cool and I am so glad you have been doing the Triangle exercises. I think it would be really helpful if you could show us how you would go about balancing the colors. It would be interesting to compare the different dye types and brands and see how they compare and ballance. I think it would also be helpful to expand it once you have it balanced.
For me, the purpose of this exercise is to understand the balance between the primaries so then I can more easily mix the colors to get the hues I want. I don't have plans at the moment to rebalance the triangle exactly in this type of exercise... although if people keep requesting it then I will! (I have added it to my list.) If I were to rebalance the triangle, it would be harder for me to look at the photo and understand the proportion of colors needed. That being said, I do plan to use this information in future videos to mix the colors I want for a project, and reference what I know from the color mixing exercise.
Maybe the balanced triangle should be something for me to do if I want to create a huge rainbow project out of minis.... that is a way for me to think about it I think!
I have a video I'm working on where I use these results to calculate how much color I want to use to create the specific hue since I know that the 1:1 ratio isn't quite what I want.
At the end of the video I pulled the colors I thought would work well for a balanced rainbow, and these are the hues I'd mix if I was going to handpaint a rainbow with these three primaries. I plan to film something like that.
Definitely would love to see more, especially with Dharma dyes. I use the CYMK approach with them, but darn that Caribbean Blue is strong!
Oh yes. I'm not sure which of the blues is the primary for the more cyan color, I'll have to check the website. I'm a bit warry of caribbean blue! lol.
I absolutely love these color triangles! I do want to see more, and would love to see a bigger triangle, if you have enough containers.
With the Tulip artisan tie dye kit (turquoise, yellow, magenta, and black), it gives a color mixing guide, and a mixing bottle.
I've seen those kits but I don't think I've ever purchased one... I plan to buy containers to do a bigger triangle at some point. Maybe this would be a good patreon poll for what dyes to use. But I'm going to wait until 2021 for sure! :D
Hello! I would love to see a dye triangle done with Rit dyes on cotton and wool. I was inspired by your project and tried it on my own using Lemon Yellow, Scarlet, and Royal Blue with Palette from KnitPicks. I only used 1 tsp of dye in each cup but it was WAY too much dye. I would love to see what you get. Cheers!
It would be a lot of fun to do this with Rit. 1 tsp of rit dyes in each color is a LOT of pigment. I learned the hard way from my early projects about how much was too much.
Fantastic video (again!). I wonder what the results would be if you did a yellow, cyan and red or a yellow, blue and magenta.
A few of you have suggested trying something like this! :D
My hypothesis is that the red is more pigmented than fuschia, and blue is more pigmented than turquoise. So swapping one of those colors would really make the triangle lean a certain way.
This could absolutely be worth doing (maybe as a big hexagon or something) because the hues you can get will vary.
One thing I missed pointing out in this video that I only noticed in editing. the 3:1 Turqoise:Fuschia looks like the brilliant blue. That row of colors looks so similar to the edge of the first triangle.
It would be amazing to see a larger samples. 👍 It's a really a marked difference between the 2 starting colours. Thanks so much for this tutorial💗‼
I'm thinking about using this to make a bigger fade set. I am also using this information in future vidoes. :D
@@ChemKnitsTutorials The amount of content you have been producing is phominal ‼ I have know idea how you've kept up the pace with how much else has been going on. 👍🦘💖
Loved this! I would also like to see a larger triangle. I’m also curious whether the triangle would be more balanced with replacing the fuchsia with the red or the turquoise with the blue.
I think that overall, the reason why this is more balanced is that the fuchsia and turquoise are less saturated overall than the red and blue. so I predict that doing a P/R or T/B swap would result in the balance of the triangle leaning in one of those directions.
What are you planning to do with the Mini Skeins? Will they go into the shop? Wonderful experiment thanks you for explaining how to do it!
I'm not sure! There's a chance they'll end up in the shop at some point, but I'm also considering making myself some swatch cards out of them to save as a reference.
@@ChemKnitsTutorials swatch cards is a great idea. I will keep an eye out if you ever decide to put them in the shop.
Jacquard Turquoise (as well as Dharma's Caribbean Blue) is Acid Blue 7, and Jacquard Hot Fuchsia (and Dharma Flourescent Fuchsia) are Acid Red 52, according to their websites.
Thank you!!! I know that this information is out there, but without it being on the labels of the jars I don't have a reinforced memory of the different pigments.
This was so great to see, and has been on my mind for the last week! Have you or would you do something like this with Kool-aid? I want to get into acid dyes some day, when I find a European grosser of undyed yarn so I can dye some bigger quantities. As of now, Kool-aid is easier to dabble in. I did do a black bean dye bath that worked out great too!
I haven't done KoolAid, but I have done Color Right Food coloring. I find that KoolAid would be pretty expensive for something like this. I can say for sure that one packet of cherry koolaid is SIGNIFCANTLY more pigmented than the yellow lemonade (which is pretty pastel)
I have these dyes now and I'm so excited to make my own skeins and do this.
I had this thought of with them being 10ml per cup instead of going 10 ml 7.5ml 5ml 2.5ml then 0 I'm going yo try it by 10ml then go down to 8ml then 6ml then 4ml then 2ml then 1ml.
I will need to draw it out and I'm too excited haha I really need to wind up some skeins though. I just love color mixing. Although I'm not sure how to go about a massive square with just 3 colors. Any suggestions or tips would be amazing!!
Hello Rebecca, New to this and loving your videos. Thx. Can you tell me about your cups with lids please ? Thick plastic and where to purchase ? Thx.
The cups are 16 oz deli containers, I think. most of them are recycled from food delivery orders! I haven't purchased any.(However once they've been claimed from ChemKnits they're never used for food ever again.)
What do you mean by expand the triangle? I would love to see that!!!
I mean have more than 15 samples! It would be super fun to do this to get more variation between each of the primaries.
@@ChemKnitsTutorials wow! so instead of a triangle with 5 rows we'll have 7 rows? That would be Amazing...
Thanks so much. Guess i have to do more take out. lol
You can find the containers for cheap some places, I know amazon has them. I'm not sure the cheapest place to get them, though.
Beautiful video!!! I wonder if food coloring is an acid dye, don't you need some mordant for the color not to go? Does it last longer?
Thank you for your videos
Food coloring is an acid dye. You don't need a mordant like you do with many natural pigments. Commercial acid dyes will last long than food coloring because they've been developed for dyeing fiber (versus for consumption.) It just happens that artificial food coloring is an acid dye so you can use very similar techniques.
This rainbow is beautiful. :)
I suggest that, if it is of interest, you use the yellow, the magenta/fuschia and the blue for a future triangle experiment, i.e. using the less dominant hues, and see how they mix together. ^_^
I think that this cool vat technique may "reconcile" you with fiber reactive dyes and cellulose fibers. :)
The grey-like sample looks a lot like the Black 628 from ProChem fiber reactive dye. When making the solution, I observed that it was made from the three primaries.
oh cool RE the Black 628! I need to try prochem dyes someday.
I think that the brilliant blue is a LOT more pigmented than turquoise, so I would expect that would give us a very blue weighted triangle. BUT it is hard to know without trying, for sure.
Great videos. What type of mixing cups do you use and where can I buy them? Thank you
These are soup containers that I get from takeout! I think these might be 16 oz cups?
For mixing, one UA-camr used a battery-powered milk frother to mix solutions.
Oh that's an interesting idea!!! I'd worry a bit about over spray.... but I should look into that for sure.
I would love to see this with Dharma!!!
Awesome!!
I have been trying to subscribe to the Dive into Dying course, but it still says sold out. Will this open up again?
Yes - I have no information about the timeline, though. (KnitCrate didn't let me know the last time it restocked, I only found out because one of you told me!) At launch KnitCrate told me the intent was to have this as an evergreen product that was always available.
Great video! I have a question. Are you using hot water that you then allow to cool, or do you start with tap-cold water in the take-out containers?
It depends on the video. Sometimes I start with warm tap water other times it is cool when I start.
Your channel satisfies my devil's advocate scientist in me so much thank you!
I'd love to be devil's advocate with you and now am curious after hearing you talk about color transfer...
Any chance we can try to do a "happy accidents" experiment, where we try to find out the "rules" to purposefully wanting color bleeding to achieve a blending fade, a new color in general, and/or "speckling" by color bleeding??
OOoo.... this is intreaguing, but I'm honestly not sure at all why the transfer showed up as speckles - normally if transfer happens the splotches are bigger. There is a chance that the blue transferred onto the yarn before I put it in the cups - I may have had some blue powder still on the counter that I wasn't aware of.
It would be hard for me to do this intentionally since I'm not quite sure how it happened accidentally! However, if something comes up that I think I can reproducer then I will try!
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Thank you!
Why do all dyers when doing rainbow spectrum skip the colors Yellow-Green? Yellow-Orange? Anyone who mixes colors can tell that you barely need any red or blue added to yellow to make all those colors in between. If you look at the rainbow as a gray scale then you see how skewed the other colors are to the yellow. Yellow would be 15% gray, that green is 70% gray so the transitions are jarringly abrupt from the switch of yellow to the green.
I like to do this particular exercise to get a good sense of ratios for speicfic dyes. If I want to get a yellow orange with these colors, I might use 1 part pink : 9 parts yellow ( or maybe even do 1:19.) This is by no means a compelte rainbow, the poor yellow is very spearated from the other colors!
Nooooo. Never steam set or rinse any light shades with darker or more intense shades.
Just for science. ;) I separate things out if I think something might bleed usually .
But yes - you're absolutely right!!
I want to see you purposely break colors!!
We've got a good mixture candidate in here!