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It’s beautiful! I’ve done some dyeing with citric acid, and it’s usually 1 tsp/100g fibre. To get a more even dye job, I’ll soak the yarn and dye together before adding the acid dissolved in hot water when the pot is hot, giving it a good mix in and then letting it be. Different colours will strike at different temperatures too, so this can help when a dye is prone to “cracking” or splitting apart into its various components. If you can find a copy, Felicia Lo’s book ‘Dyeing to spin and knit’ is dead useful. But honestly, I tried some natural dyeing this Christmas and you guys are all wizards - I had zero idea what was going on, even with a book 😅

Such beautiful yellows! My partner and I put away our marigold harvest to dry and someday dye with, and your video reawakened our excitement for it :)

Ooooh it's knitting up so beautiful!

Yay! A new video for Christmas!! That sweater is going to be amazing! Can't wait to see how it turns out

Merry Christmas 🎄 I like the colors very much and after a while i recognized that I've knitted this pattern. It's from linka Neumann , isn't it? Happy holidays 🌟

I have about an acre of land to plant on and plans for interior growing next year. Just a thought if you're looking for a place to grow dye materials.

Love how the color turned out! I'm excited to see any future elderberry dyeing adventures you do!

''you go over and under and - EEEEH'' TH-camrs that make random throat noises unite!

I'm so excited to learn everything about spinning! I've been gifted an antique Ashford traditional and i cant wait to dive in and learn everything I can!

These are amazing! I wish i could recreate them but in crochet haha :D

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Not too much criticism on yourself. Your socks look very beautiful and I'm sure they're totally warm and cozy. Thanks for sharing 🐿️

your socks are very cute :)

They're so cute!! Lovely! If you don't mind some unsolicited advice from someone who also pulls the yarn too tight when doing colourwork - someone suggested to me to knit inside out, so the floats travel around the outside of the tube (lol that's way harder to describe than it is to actually do) and I found it really helped!

Beautiful work

I sware I keep hearing you say "Gay's watch"

Yay! Another video!! 🥳

That’s fantastic, my first blending board was also a piece of carding cloth stapled to an IKEA cutting board. 👌🏻 Got the job done!

This was such a nice cosy video! I'm really glad you are choosing your mental health over youtube, even if I will miss the regular Tuesday videos. I'll see you when I see you! ❤️

Here, have my vote for coolest person on the internet. This is so cool, from your own bees, spinning your own wick... Spinning truly is a postapocalyptic lifeskill!

"The heat of the flame vaporizes the liquid wax (turns it into a hot gas), and starts to break down the hydrocarbons into molecules of hydrogen and carbon. These vaporized molecules are drawn up into the flame, where they react with oxygen from the air to create heat, light, water vapor (H2O) and carbon dioxide (CO2)." I think the only reason the bigger candle furned slower is because it had more wax to burn.

I’m going to go light a beeswax candle and get set up to watch the video 😊 love this!

Somehow this is the first time TH-cam has recommended a wheel of time-related video to me lmao. With a username like this you'd think it would be common, but nah.

I love these books so much!!!

I'm really glad youtube recommended this video to me! I like knitting and the wheel of time is quickly becoming my favorite series! Book 4 is so so good! I think the roving turned out very pretty!

The algorithm knows me too well. Fiber crafting and wheel of time?! Im in.

Yassssss! I’d throw down for ‘The Dragon Reborn’ colour palette, what a good idea!

let's try it anyway & hope for the best -- yep, that's my motto too :D So much creative possibilities with acid dyes! Although I think I'm going to stick with natural dyes for now :)

It looks so cool!! Can't wait to see the yarn you spin from it!!

I hope you didn't dye in vain.

"Today we're going to do some dieing..." *pause* I hear you, man.

When you dunked the fibre in that dye pan without gloves I want “Noooooooo!!!” Because walnut dye can heavily stain your fingers and nails, and it can be very hard to get from under your nails. Fortunately, it doesn’t seem to have been an issue. I just got a blending board and can’t wait to use it, to add some silk to the alpaca I have, or to make blends with alpaca, sheep’s wool and silk. The reason is that I mainly spin for lace knitting, my preference goes to what is some times referred to as “gossamer shawls” or “gossamer scarves”. Silk adds a lot of strength and you need very little. Add to that my dislike for acrylic… I’m also looking at plant based alternatives to silk (bamboo etc). This Summer I’ve done my first attempt at chain plying and made sock yarn. It’s slightly thicker than what is known as sock yarn in Belgium, and the book on sock knitting I have (nerdy, I know,I actually bought a book on the subject) advises 2.25 or 2.5 mm needles. I definitely needed the 2.5 ones for the yarn I’d spun. As the wool for my chain plying experiment was Swifter (VERY crimpy!) the one sock I did knit ended up quite stiff, but wearable. One of the tricks, when having a different gauge of yarn, is to not just adapt your needle size, but also your stitch count. For the pattern I had I found I needed to go up one needle size and go down one sock size (for the amount of stitches needed to end up with a sock that fits my foot size). I'm now considering making a blend of wool, alpaca and either silk of bamboo to spin yarn for socks as a Christmas present for my father: he's always saying he doesn't want any presents. Socks are often joked about as the lamest and unimaginative present ever for a man… except maybe a tie. But hand knitted socks from homespun wool, from animals you actually know the name of? Entirely different concept. And a good joke as well. 😊 Happy spinning and knitting!

The brown color came out so pretty! Great for autumn

We have chestnuts that have been in the fridge for a year I think. xD

I didnt know you could get such lovely color just from walnut leaves. I have one without fruit in my yard. I may try this before the leaves drop for fall.

"It looks small but they're about 100 grams each." . . . That's what she said?

ooh I love that shade of brown and how cool you can collect the leaves in your own garden :) Thanks for sharing. You are an inspiration. T x

I love the subtle heathering of the brown yarn!

Great video! If I’m not mistaken, I think that the difference of colors between the alpaca and wool is due to the structure of the fiber, wool opens up more its scales with the mordant so more pigment can get in. 😊

I watched another video about spinning at a mill and they said they put the second carding pass sideways in order to break up the neps into smaller pieces. Thought of you and your drum carding questions

Love the idea of the soft alpaca for the neckline! I've been meaning to replace the neckline of one of my first sweaters, because the wool I used it a bit too itchy. Looking forward to the dyeing!

9:18 - I think your cussion is looking at you hungrilly... That's a rather red looking shirt you got there.

Socks for Tommy 😂 I love it so much

Hmmmmm Finn and alpaca. Sounds delicious.

Wow. I'm amazed that four pounds wasn't enough. It's going to be a very warm sweater. I live in the south east US, so I don't think I would have much opportunity to wear a sweater so thick. Although, with climate change as it's been the pasf few years, that polar vortex will probably hit again and we'll have a few weeks of weather cold enough for a true Scandinavian sweater. 😅

I am not an expert, but won't salt make the dye fix in the fiber?

Great work! It's quite pink!

I am now aware that there is such a thing as rhubarb cake... Only ever knew about rhubarb pie before.

I got a dyeing kit with elderberry dye from my husband and it promises to dye blue, so your result is a bit surprising