This video was inspired by Kouture crochet’s Kickstarter project of producing a line of handspun single breed yarns. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/karia/handspun-single-sheep-breed-yarns Kouture Crochet provided the handspun Merino, Texel, Wesleydale and Devon for this project. I spun the remaining handpun yarns myself. (This is my first time dyeing handspun yarns!) In most of my dyeing videos, I am…
One of the most frequent questions I get on this channel is, “How color fast is yarn dyed with food coloring and vinegar?” Well I am happy to finally show you what happens when you machine wash a swatch knit with yarn handpainted with food coloring and set with vinegar in the microwave. Please note…
This tutorials shows you how I hand paint yarn using Kool-Aid and squeeze bottles. Watch more of my videos on my YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/Bloomingknitter You can also watch all of my tutorials and podcasts on my blog at http://www.knittingblooms.com You can also join the Knitting Blooms Group on Ravelry http://www.ravelry.com/groups/knitting-blooms
I am a little giddy in the filming on this video because the day of filming a spinning wheel arrived on my doorstep! This dyeing video where I did a lot of flying by the seat of my pants ended up being a beautiful example of how the different colors that make up Wilton’s Violet…
LUMI: PRINT WITH LIGHT “Lumi is a revolutionary new permanent photographic print process that utilizes a unique water-based series of dyes which develop their color through exposure to sunlight. The applications are potentially endless, with a long list of fabrics, fibers and materials like cotton, linen, wool, silk, leather, jute and wood — just to…
I love creating asymmetric skeins of yarn, but all of the previous skeins have been created by hand wound cakes. I have yet to dye commercially wound balls of yarn. In this experiment, I wanted to see what kind of effect I could achieve by partially submerging balls of yarn in the dyebath. The resulting…
Pre-knit blanks of yarn (machine knit tubes that can be unraveled for knitting/crocheting) are great to dye when you want to create long stretches of color. You can purchase commercially wound “sock blanks” that contain 1-2 strands of fingering weight yarn knit together to form a long tube. I created the following blank myself using…
http://www.woodlands.co.uk Experiments with dyes using evidence from scraps of material found at archaological sites from the Saxon period. Using natural products from woods and woodlands such as madder, weld, woad, barks from alder buckthorn birch, and walnut, and wild plants such as yarrow Jennie James shows the varieties of colours that can be achieved. Other…
Previously I have shown you that you can dye wound cakes of yarn to create stunning asymmetrical colorways. I cautioned that even if you were to dye two (hand wound) cakes in one pot the colorways would likely not be identical due to differences in the winding. Let’s take these differences to an extreme by…
Welcome to the new Dyeing Experiments segment on the ChemKnits YouTube Channel! Here we will start a number of tutorials where, like any good experiment, we do not know what the outcome is going to be. The Tulip Tie Dye Kit recommends that you use the dye 45 min after mixing. I had some mixed…