Thanks for taking the effort to show us this beautiful effect. Generous. Saving us time and providing inspiration. It looks so much better than the usual dyed self stripes.
Very pretty! No matter how you wind the skeins self striping yarns are labor intensive and a pain which is why they tend to be more expensive. I look forward to seeing your explorations of different techniques.
I think that I picked one of the MOST labor intensive ways with this one, however you could create something really amazing with good variegated stripes (non repeating stripes even!)
I think this method of dyeing is genius! I'm so excited about the possibilities that I rushed over to Amazon and ordered an Embellish-knit for myself. Now I just have to twiddle my thumbs for a couple of days until it gets here!
a year or so ago I saw a blog entry where the woman had icorded some very thin yarns together to make her own super bulky yarn! It was very intriguing and I promptly made some. It shrinks in yardage unbelievably. Love the way this turned out. The swatch was a big help to visualize the colors. Thank you so much for sharing this. Can't wait to find my little cranker dealie again. PS Love my Hanukkah yarns. Will be swatching them soon to play with the different bases.
I just found your channel. Watched this and had my doubts all the way through -- thought it was just going to be a bust until I saw it unraveled. It's beautiful! And that swatch! Wow, it will be beautiful no matter what is knitted with it. Thanks for demoing this for us.
Thank you so much, Melanie, and welcome to the ChemKnits Family! I sometimes have nerves and doubts as I am going through these videos, but I love how this turned out. If only it didn't take me FOREVER to wind up that icord!
LOVE this technique.....as for making the icord? Husband and child labor comes to mind.....LOL. I would more than love to knit swatches for you of your yarn. Anytime!! Xo. Beverly
I really wish that I had the time to do more swatches. I think if I'm ever able to hire a second person to the ChemKnits team that might b something I try to do.
This yarn is magical! I love the look of the crimping too 😄. I think an eye cord maker and teaching my 9 year old how to use it are in our future. He loves helping me with these adventures.
I wish that I could find a better icord. This one is fine, but I didn't love it. Although maybe I'd love it with the electric screw driver hack someone else mentioned....
I love this. I like long colour repeats, and once made an 8m long skein with chairs but it was exhausting. I really like the mottled effect too, so am gonna buy a French knitting machine rather than making/buying a warping board
Making the icord took me AGES AND AGES. I wish there was a way to automate it because it took me so much longer than doing super long skeins. (You can buy 6M skeins from Wool2Dye4 and that's something I tend to do now!)
SQUEEEEEEEE!!!! A swatch!!!! I absolutely love it! What a clever and fun project. You're really ruining me for when you go back to your regular schedule lol.
I bought one of those cranks on a 60% joanne coupon, still in its original pkg untouched, so this is a fun experiment. I have had a bit of success using plumbers teflon tape on the threads of some bottles to cut down the dripping. For socks the effort great fun, I think the concept is so innovative for a maybe one time gig to play around. Although for me, I think the colors are really "off" at least on my monitor, but the maverick idea is right "on". Thanx
Wow! You got the coolest self-striping yarn from that experiment! Agreed that self-striping is amvery labor intensive process which is why there seem to only be a few indie dyers who offer it. The results are so satisfying though.
Thank you! I really wish that I could include swatches in all of my videos. For time reasons and the fact that yarns can looks so different depending on how they were swatched, I don't do it for most videos. But I am definitely trying to include it for anything self striping!
Julia, I am shuddering about doing this with lace weight... unless you're talking about less than 100 g. I don't think I could do 880 yards of this. ;)
Crocheting was SO SO SO much faster! Here are two videos where I tried that out th-cam.com/video/HTWLJ7Tw_pM/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/NP0J4IPU-ks/w-d-xo.html
Ooooh wiggley stripes!!! Cool swatch, Rebecca!!! Totally awesome!!! Love this video, it’s beautiful!! 😍 (I’d do it but I only have a hand icord maker) It would take me a year to make an icord this long lol 😂 Happy Dying from Canada 🇨🇦 ❤️Marie
Do you know how to crochet? You can do a single crochet chain and take up a lot of length that way. You can even crochet the crochet chain to make it even shorter, and make the stripes longer!! Rebecca did a couple of videos on this technique!
Laynie Fingers Yes I’ve been crocheting for about 26 years actually lol 😂 I could do that actually, I didn’t even think about it!! Thank you for the suggestion!!!
It was in the Etsy store for a couple of minutes. ;) I have a strict rule on the personal hand dyed stash that I keep for myself, and if I don't have an immediate idea on how I'll use it then I list it so it can get some love.
ChemKnits Tutorials The Addi egg! Its a hand crank 6-needle i-cord maker and it can definitely handle worsted weight or even a bit bulkier with ease. It’s about $40 buy-it-now on ebay (cheaper if you shop around and snatch up a good deal). I own an Addi king (46 needles) and there is also the Addi express which is 22 needles and comparable to the little singer circular crank machine that you use for your sock blanks but higher quality (smoother! quieter! fewer kamikaze stitches hopping off needles!). Now if only I were an Addi affiliate (or ebay reseller), judging by the enthusiasm for this technique I’m thinking there will soon be a big jump in sales 😂
More more more please! Can’t express how much I love this. Definitely next on my list. Question though...you used your winder to wind the undyed icord. Would a nitty knotty work too?
100% the niddy noddy would work. I had my skeinwinder around and thought "Why do this by hand when I can use my new machine?!?" It wouldn't take long to do by hand at all.
Absolutely! After I was done filming I went and soaked the yarn in some plain tap water for a few minutes to let the crimp relax. I then hung up the yarn to dry. I do this with all blanks etc that I unravel. (I just don't always show the end after that last step. There is still sometimes a slight wave, but very minimal.)
Thank you! Unfortunately this yarn has sold and I don't have something exactly like it. There are some fun speckled gradient (subtle striping almost) yarns like this one www.etsy.com/listing/641600925/repeating-speckled-gradient-matched-pair in the shop.
OOo I like that I could mayeb use this with DK, I'll have to try it. I tried with worsted at first and the crank thingy couldn't handle the thickness and jammed. I was so frustrated. I think it takes two full turns to get 4 stitches or something ridiculous. If the effect weren't so cool, I wouldn't even be considering trying it again. ;) Now I want a cordless electric screwdriver...;)
@@ChemKnitsTutorials Santa's listening...I still always start it by hand. The hanging weight, is of course, absolutely essential. I did manage to get it to work with some of the lighter "worsted" (read actually DK) yarns. I haven't tried doing two fingering strands...would be a bit tricky. Have you thought about doing the Icord into a hand "crochet" style chain before looping it around? I'm considering doing something like that with the Momo. After watching you work with the Icord that one has moved to the top of my Dyeing To Do That list.
Oh yes, I love that weight. I thought I had lost it but then I found it. *phew!* I think crocheting the icord first would create some fun results. Although I might skip the icord and just go for some crochet chains. th-cam.com/video/HTWLJ7Tw_pM/w-d-xo.html
Do I need to make it into an Icord or lengthen the hank of yarn? Or can I dye it as it is out of the package to get this look? I'm after making my own sock yarn patterns with my own dyed yarn and want this particular look in general for them.
This awesome yarn is currently in the ChemKnits Creations Etsy store! www.etsy.com/listing/667009591/self-striping-fingering-weight-sock-yarn There is only one available so don't wait too long!
I achieved a rose pink on both Cadena and Paragon yarns using 4 parts Wiltons pink 2 parts violet and one Small part black with 1 Tablespoon citric acid, then, neutralizing with Baking soda. I will send you pix if you like. They look a little violet in the pix, but are more a deep rose pink. The soaked Cadena that I put in the pot first, took up some of the blues, but everything later, came out Rose Pink. I was intending to get a Deep Purple, and it looks DARK in the pot, but I Love what I got.
Have you ever used Wilton Icing Color White-White? It's titanium dioxide, made to cover the yellow that butter tints buttercream icing. It might work to lighten colors for your use.
I don’t know ... It’s really really beautiful yarn ! I’m sure I just saw I cord skeins of yarn online within the last few days .... possibly yarn paradise or webs ? If I can find it , I’ll post the name place and cost .
This is the electric skein winder that I have: www.crazymonkeycreations.com/Winders/ElectricSkeinWinder.html and I show it off here: th-cam.com/video/dW-eB6tvRjM/w-d-xo.html
Uh oh, I must be really saturated with you tube or just forgetful. I didn't remember watching this at all except for the crank machine. Then when I went to like it, I already had! So scrolled down and yup, made the same comment back then that I was going to make now. So funny. Except to add that the downside here is that it is possible to get a color you absolutely don't like even though the rest are great, w which could ruin the whole skein, and being so prepared, you could not do over as it would be scattered everywhere throughout. However you could always dye over the whole thing. I have knitted things with hand dyed that I wasn't crazy about and really did not enjoy it, so I am a bit more attentive these days and have overdyed several things now with good results.
@@ChemKnitsTutorials Hmmmmm I just read this: To safely bleach wool fibers, use a combination of hydrogen peroxide, washing soda and detergent. Might try it maybe to speckle a mini of black just to see? Uh oh I am getting like Rebecca!
Why don’t you get a little knitting machine to do swatches? Of course that would still take work.. but it might be a good option if you get a yarn you’d really like to swatch but don’t have much time?
I started trying this with DK weight and the problem was that the DK weight yarn was too thick for the hooks on this little crank. As much as I love the results, I have no plans to do this again since it took HOURS to make.
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Thanks for taking the effort to show us this beautiful effect. Generous. Saving us time and providing inspiration. It looks so much better than the usual dyed self stripes.
My pleasure 😊
Very pretty! No matter how you wind the skeins self striping yarns are labor intensive and a pain which is why they tend to be more expensive. I look forward to seeing your explorations of different techniques.
I think that I picked one of the MOST labor intensive ways with this one, however you could create something really amazing with good variegated stripes (non repeating stripes even!)
I LOVE this yarn! From the start to the Swatch. The colorway is beautiful and I think you did an extra amazing job on this one. 🤩🤩🤩
Thank you so much!
I think this method of dyeing is genius! I'm so excited about the possibilities that I rushed over to Amazon and ordered an Embellish-knit for myself. Now I just have to twiddle my thumbs for a couple of days until it gets here!
I watch your videos as I knit and crochet. I'm getting so much work done and learning a lot at the same time! Thank you!
You're so welcome! I'm glad to provide some educational entertainment. :D
a year or so ago I saw a blog entry where the woman had icorded some very thin yarns together to make her own super bulky yarn! It was very intriguing and I promptly made some. It shrinks in yardage unbelievably. Love the way this turned out. The swatch was a big help to visualize the colors. Thank you so much for sharing this. Can't wait to find my little cranker dealie again. PS Love my Hanukkah yarns. Will be swatching them soon to play with the different bases.
I'm so glad you loved the sampler!
I just found your channel. Watched this and had my doubts all the way through -- thought it was just going to be a bust until I saw it unraveled. It's beautiful! And that swatch! Wow, it will be beautiful no matter what is knitted with it. Thanks for demoing this for us.
Thank you so much, Melanie, and welcome to the ChemKnits Family! I sometimes have nerves and doubts as I am going through these videos, but I love how this turned out. If only it didn't take me FOREVER to wind up that icord!
LOVE this technique.....as for making the icord? Husband and child labor comes to mind.....LOL. I would more than love to knit swatches for you of your yarn. Anytime!! Xo. Beverly
I really wish that I had the time to do more swatches. I think if I'm ever able to hire a second person to the ChemKnits team that might b something I try to do.
This yarn is magical! I love the look of the crimping too 😄. I think an eye cord maker and teaching my 9 year old how to use it are in our future. He loves helping me with these adventures.
I wish that I could find a better icord. This one is fine, but I didn't love it. Although maybe I'd love it with the electric screw driver hack someone else mentioned....
Such a cool idea to use I-cord!
Thank you!
I love this. I like long colour repeats, and once made an 8m long skein with chairs but it was exhausting. I really like the mottled effect too, so am gonna buy a French knitting machine rather than making/buying a warping board
Making the icord took me AGES AND AGES. I wish there was a way to automate it because it took me so much longer than doing super long skeins. (You can buy 6M skeins from Wool2Dye4 and that's something I tend to do now!)
SQUEEEEEEEE!!!! A swatch!!!! I absolutely love it! What a clever and fun project. You're really ruining me for when you go back to your regular schedule lol.
LOL! I might film a whole video on why I don't normally swatch. This one really did demand it, though.
That's so gorgeous. I can't believe how that turned out
Thank you! I'm really really happy with how it came out.
OMG
I don't know how I missed this one!!
I'm in love 😍
I'm tempted to get a i-cord winder & do it!!
But double it for a wrap 🥰
Fair warning... the icord took FOREVER to make!
Yes please explore this technique further. I loved this podcast and the yarn is so unique.
Thank you so much!
I could totally see doing this to make a warp for my looms. I have an embellishing machine and use it often. I see so many possibilities for weaving.
OOOOOOO!
I know it was a lot of work, but it’s fabulous. How nice it looks knit up.
I had a lot of fun with this one. It was super fun to knit the swatch. I think I was watching Mrs. Maisel while doing it. ;)
Watching this makes me want to borrow my friend's I-cord maker!! It is gorgeous!!!
Thank you!
Great idea! Now I want an icord maker
Uhoh, I'm an enabler. It took me multiple hours to make the icord, but totally worth it for the video. ;)
I bought one of those cranks on a 60% joanne coupon, still in its original pkg untouched, so this is a fun experiment. I have had a bit of success using plumbers teflon tape on the threads of some bottles to cut down the dripping. For socks the effort great fun, I think the concept is so innovative for a maybe one time gig to play around. Although for me, I think the colors are really "off" at least on my monitor, but the maverick idea is right "on". Thanx
I should definitely try taping the bottles - this is a great tip!
Wow! You got the coolest self-striping yarn from that experiment! Agreed that self-striping is amvery labor intensive process which is why there seem to only be a few indie dyers who offer it. The results are so satisfying though.
SO satisfying. I plan to play with a few less labor intensive techniques soon.
How pretty! The color blends are so soft.
Thank you!
That yarn is absolutely beautiful 😍😍😍😍
Thank you so much!
I love this technique. I appreciate the swatch, love to see how your yarn knits up.
Thank you! I really wish that I could include swatches in all of my videos. For time reasons and the fact that yarns can looks so different depending on how they were swatched, I don't do it for most videos. But I am definitely trying to include it for anything self striping!
This has given me an idea for some lace weight yarn I have.
Julia, I am shuddering about doing this with lace weight... unless you're talking about less than 100 g. I don't think I could do 880 yards of this. ;)
It will be some leftover lace weight, not a full skein. It was left over from a project I did for someone.
@@juliamason8393 Oh phew! ;)
Cool idea. I think I will crochet a skein of dk or worsted and dye it that way. The rope won't be as "dense".
Crocheting was SO SO SO much faster! Here are two videos where I tried that out th-cam.com/video/HTWLJ7Tw_pM/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/NP0J4IPU-ks/w-d-xo.html
I'm going to try this technique! Thanks for putting so many cool ideas in my head!
You're very welcome!
Ooooh wiggley stripes!!! Cool swatch, Rebecca!!! Totally awesome!!! Love this video, it’s beautiful!! 😍 (I’d do it but I only have a hand icord maker)
It would take me a year to make an icord this long lol 😂
Happy Dying from Canada 🇨🇦
❤️Marie
Do you know how to crochet? You can do a single crochet chain and take up a lot of length that way. You can even crochet the crochet chain to make it even shorter, and make the stripes longer!! Rebecca did a couple of videos on this technique!
Laynie Fingers Yes I’ve been crocheting for about 26 years actually lol 😂
I could do that actually, I didn’t even think about it!! Thank you for the suggestion!!!
@@marieking-stevason1775 You're welcome!!
I would probably do crochet again over icord. th-cam.com/video/HTWLJ7Tw_pM/w-d-xo.html The crochet didn't feel as slow to me.
Love the yarn! Fabulous video.
Thank you!
I think this is beautiful. I have an Icord maker but I don't know if I'd be willing to do 100 grams but the affect is gorgeous. Love how it breaks.
I both REALLY want to do this again and REALLY don't want to. ;)
Bet that wasn't in the Etsy store! Very labor intensive, but it turned out phenomenal. Gorgeous yarn, great video, two thumbs up!
It was in the Etsy store for a couple of minutes. ;) I have a strict rule on the personal hand dyed stash that I keep for myself, and if I don't have an immediate idea on how I'll use it then I list it so it can get some love.
Cool! Now I need to try this. Looks like some shopping is in my future 😏
If you (or anyone) finds a better icord maker that could handle worsted weight yarn let me know!
ChemKnits Tutorials The Addi egg! Its a hand crank 6-needle i-cord maker and it can definitely handle worsted weight or even a bit bulkier with ease. It’s about $40 buy-it-now on ebay (cheaper if you shop around and snatch up a good deal). I own an Addi king (46 needles) and there is also the Addi express which is 22 needles and comparable to the little singer circular crank machine that you use for your sock blanks but higher quality (smoother! quieter! fewer kamikaze stitches hopping off needles!). Now if only I were an Addi affiliate (or ebay reseller), judging by the enthusiasm for this technique I’m thinking there will soon be a big jump in sales 😂
Wow! That sure turned out gorgeous :D ~ Thank you!!
Thank you for watching!
This is stunning
Thank you, Anita!
Amazing technique and results. Thank you.
You're very welcome!
Fabulous technique!
Thank you, Ada!
The results are so cool!
Thank you!
Soooo pretty!!! I love this! The I cord seems like it would be much less easy to tangle into a mess...
That was my thought, although I'm excited to try an extra large skein soon.
This is possibly my favorite!!!
Thank you, Carlie!
Cool! I would totally use it in I cord form as a super bulky.
Oooo that is a fun idea, too!
So happy you switched, I always love seeing how yarn ends up looking. Wonder if anyone out there can suggest a better I cord maker?
The one I got was the only crank icord maker I could find. I'd love to find one that could handle worsted weight yarns.
More more more please! Can’t express how much I love this. Definitely next on my list. Question though...you used your winder to wind the undyed icord. Would a nitty knotty work too?
100% the niddy noddy would work. I had my skeinwinder around and thought "Why do this by hand when I can use my new machine?!?" It wouldn't take long to do by hand at all.
This reminds me of sea glass.
It does!
It's mini-momo-merino! I think this calls for some experimenting on my part...I have two hanks of the cream m-m-m to play with.
I missed out on the momo-merino in the big sale. I would have purchased some on clearance to unravel. ;0)
@@ChemKnitsTutorials I'll let you know how it goes.
Please do!
Beautiful.
Thank you!
love that look!
Thank you!
Ooohhhh this is genius!
Thank you!
Gorgeous
Thank you so much!
Really awesome results - Is it possible to relax the yarn so it isn't quite so kinky after you unravel it?
Absolutely! After I was done filming I went and soaked the yarn in some plain tap water for a few minutes to let the crimp relax. I then hung up the yarn to dry. I do this with all blanks etc that I unravel. (I just don't always show the end after that last step. There is still sometimes a slight wave, but very minimal.)
I love this!
Thank you!
I love it I would buy it .
Thank you! Unfortunately this yarn has sold and I don't have something exactly like it. There are some fun speckled gradient (subtle striping almost) yarns like this one www.etsy.com/listing/641600925/repeating-speckled-gradient-matched-pair in the shop.
I saw a video where someone modified this crank machine to use a power drill.
Yes, I use mine with a cordless electric screwdriver. I've also been able to use it successfully with yarn up to dk wt.
OOo I like that I could mayeb use this with DK, I'll have to try it. I tried with worsted at first and the crank thingy couldn't handle the thickness and jammed. I was so frustrated.
I think it takes two full turns to get 4 stitches or something ridiculous. If the effect weren't so cool, I wouldn't even be considering trying it again. ;)
Now I want a cordless electric screwdriver...;)
That reminds me of when I used to make polymer clay pens. I made a jig for my rotary tool to make sanding easier. Power tools for the win!!
@@ChemKnitsTutorials Santa's listening...I still always start it by hand. The hanging weight, is of course, absolutely essential. I did manage to get it to work with some of the lighter "worsted" (read actually DK) yarns. I haven't tried doing two fingering strands...would be a bit tricky. Have you thought about doing the Icord into a hand "crochet" style chain before looping it around? I'm considering doing something like that with the Momo. After watching you work with the Icord that one has moved to the top of my Dyeing To Do That list.
Oh yes, I love that weight. I thought I had lost it but then I found it. *phew!*
I think crocheting the icord first would create some fun results. Although I might skip the icord and just go for some crochet chains. th-cam.com/video/HTWLJ7Tw_pM/w-d-xo.html
Do I need to make it into an Icord or lengthen the hank of yarn? Or can I dye it as it is out of the package to get this look? I'm after making my own sock yarn patterns with my own dyed yarn and want this particular look in general for them.
This awesome yarn is currently in the ChemKnits Creations Etsy store! www.etsy.com/listing/667009591/self-striping-fingering-weight-sock-yarn There is only one available so don't wait too long!
I achieved a rose pink on both Cadena and Paragon yarns using 4 parts Wiltons pink 2 parts violet and one Small part black with 1 Tablespoon citric acid, then, neutralizing with Baking soda. I will send you pix if you like. They look a little violet in the pix, but are more a deep rose pink. The soaked Cadena that I put in the pot first, took up some of the blues, but everything later, came out Rose Pink. I was intending to get a Deep Purple, and it looks DARK in the pot, but I Love what I got.
supercool!
this yarn has sold!
Love love!
Thank you!
Have you ever used Wilton Icing Color White-White? It's titanium dioxide, made to cover the yellow that butter tints buttercream icing. It might work to lighten colors for your use.
Titanium dioxide does nothing to yarn, unfortunately. It is a bit of a pain to rinse out, too.
Love it!
Thank you!
I don’t know ... It’s really really beautiful yarn ! I’m sure I just saw I cord skeins of yarn online within the last few days .... possibly yarn paradise or webs ? If I can find it , I’ll post the name place and cost .
I've definitely seen things like that for sale places, but I'm not 100% positive if all of them are unravelable.
Could you set two swifts x number of feet apart to help in the process of making and rewinding? So you don't need a 10 foot knitty noddy.
This is a super interesting idea.... I have no idea if it would work.
LOVE IT!
Thank you!
Making i-cord, knitting and crocheting is a great dieting tool...
Making a long crochet chain was a LOT faster than the icord.
Can you talk more about your skies winder or name episode where you talk about it. I’m new to you
This is the electric skein winder that I have: www.crazymonkeycreations.com/Winders/ElectricSkeinWinder.html and I show it off here: th-cam.com/video/dW-eB6tvRjM/w-d-xo.html
Uh oh, I must be really saturated with you tube or just forgetful. I didn't remember watching this at all except for the crank machine. Then when I went to like it, I already had! So scrolled down and yup, made the same comment back then that I was going to make now. So funny. Except to add that the downside here is that it is possible to get a color you absolutely don't like even though the rest are great, w which could ruin the whole skein, and being so prepared, you could not do over as it would be scattered everywhere throughout. However you could always dye over the whole thing. I have knitted things with hand dyed that I wasn't crazy about and really did not enjoy it, so I am a bit more attentive these days and have overdyed several things now with good results.
Overdyeing is always an option. Unless the yarn is already black. ;)
@@ChemKnitsTutorials Hmmmmm I just read this: To safely bleach wool fibers, use a combination of hydrogen peroxide, washing soda and detergent. Might try it maybe to speckle a mini of black just to see? Uh oh I am getting like Rebecca!
Why don’t you get a little knitting machine to do swatches? Of course that would still take work.. but it might be a good option if you get a yarn you’d really like to swatch but don’t have much time?
Try adding a lot of extra weight on the cord for dk yarn 🧶
I started trying this with DK weight and the problem was that the DK weight yarn was too thick for the hooks on this little crank. As much as I love the results, I have no plans to do this again since it took HOURS to make.
Do with autumn colors
Oooo... it would be great in those tones with the varieation and flecks.