I’ve been dyeing for many years (50) but I always learn (or re-learn) something when watching your videos. The last 10 years I have mostly dyed superwash, easy with excellent results. But I just started dyeing some barnyard sheep fleece for a rug I want to weave and some of the dyes just don’t bite and continue to bleed, even after simmering for hours! I got a bit fed up so left the last attempt for the day in the dyepot till morning, and yes the dye bath was nearly clear. So I love your idea of just doing a cool dyebath warmed by the sunshine, even if for 48 hours, far more economical than cooking on the stove top. Also your videos are often so spot on timely for what I’m working on, a great big Thank you and Happy Holidays and Healthy 2025!
I am endlessly entertained by silk! It is amazing how the silk blend absorbed all its dye and then (1) looked paler than the Peruvian roving when dry and (2) turned out to have a lot of its roving undyed. You would think that, with so much of the roving not taking dye, the fibre that did take the dye would be at least as dark-looking as the Peruvian one, but nope!
It always amazes me that silk needs so much more pigment to appear to be the same color. I think this is because ethe silk fibers are opaque while dry but translucent when wet?
I was watching this late last night and thinking to myself, that dye is just gonna roll off that gloss yarn. I loved the outcome. I said I was done dyeing for the year but i might have to do one or two glosses.
The silk blend is gorgeous, it looks like a summer sky! I personally prefer the shade of the slightly less saturated blue there too! I also love the way the super-wash wool looks. It seems like it would be fun to spin, maybe as a fractal? But it would look great chain-plyed too. The Wool of the Andie's is pretty enough but seems sort of boring, but that just means it would make a yarn that was better for something like cables or some other pretty pattern.
I am loving seeing more unspun wool! I've been spinning more lately and I have a bunch of undyed wool that I want to color. One thing I'm curious about is if you can dye stuff that's in batts as opposed to top. Also would love to see you dye wool and yarn the same way and then spin up the wool to show how different it is, but I know that's a LOT more work.
I have one video dyeing a bat. You can dye the, I would be very careful since they would be easier to felt than roving or combed top. But you can! I love this idea of the side by sdie yarn vs woolt hat I spin up. Great suggestion!
@15:05 My left, outside shoebox, almost middle of box vertically and to the right horizontally. A perfect little image of a white Lab puppy in the dyed roving. 🐶
I love all three! very fun!! I think I see hints of the green in the wool of the andes, but its blended. I want my tombstone to read, "She flew by the seat of her pants😂 so I enjoy experiments
LOL! I cann't believe how surprised I was by these results. I've already done this proejct again with presoaked wool - that will come out in January I think (or maybe early Feb? I don't remember)
I'm watching this like some wild plot twist when that superwash went clear at beginning. I was yelling no way, WOW!! I usually have raw to prep and dye. I've only dyed superwash a couple times.
I’d always presoak the combed top… sometimes the presoak water is almost milky looking. I think there are variations in how heavily scoured the wool is, or maybe they add sprays to control the combing process depending on humidity etc…
ooooo good question. I'm not sure. I think that qualatatively fibers that look more translucent when wet (like silk) will tend to have a larger wet to dry color transition. but other than that i'm nt sure. The good news is that you can always overdye if you want to intensify the colors more after seeing it dry.
I wonder how this would change if you added vinegar to the dye before you poured? I was surprised at how the vinegar seemed to soak in more easily than the water. Despite this being an "oops" I love the rovings and the video, once again you have a fortunate fail, succesful mistake, beautiful blunder. Face it you can't fail with dyeing yarn!
Do you have a steamer? (I don’t..) but I wonder what would happen if you put your dry top in the box, then give a hefty steaming before adding your dye. I wonder if it would hydrate and add weight, but be less cumbersome than fully wetting and then draining the top.
@@ChemKnitsTutorials oooh I think you should try it!! Do it over a cookie sheet or just on the counter top then put in the plastic bin! I bet you could get a lot of the effect of a presoak without all that messy weight of the real thing. Of course, if there is scum in your combed top, you won’t have rinsed that away, but you got good color here without the rinsing action of the pre soak. Ps: Was there a white core in the superwash too? It takes the dye so fast I find that penetration is pretty poor.
"Non-Newtonian solid"....I love it! And the roving is gorgeous, too :)
Whoops, I may have meant non-newtonian fluid, but now I have no idea why on earth I brought that up. Lol.
@@ChemKnitsTutorials You may have said fluid :).
I’ve been dyeing for many years (50) but I always learn (or re-learn) something when watching your videos. The last 10 years I have mostly dyed superwash, easy with excellent results. But I just started dyeing some barnyard sheep fleece for a rug I want to weave and some of the dyes just don’t bite and continue to bleed, even after simmering for hours! I got a bit fed up so left the last attempt for the day in the dyepot till morning, and yes the dye bath was nearly clear. So I love your idea of just doing a cool dyebath warmed by the sunshine, even if for 48 hours, far more economical than cooking on the stove top. Also your videos are often so spot on timely for what I’m working on, a great big Thank you and Happy Holidays and Healthy 2025!
Happy Holidays and an early happy new year! I tend to relearn things as I'm doing this videos myself.
I am endlessly entertained by silk! It is amazing how the silk blend absorbed all its dye and then (1) looked paler than the Peruvian roving when dry and (2) turned out to have a lot of its roving undyed. You would think that, with so much of the roving not taking dye, the fibre that did take the dye would be at least as dark-looking as the Peruvian one, but nope!
It always amazes me that silk needs so much more pigment to appear to be the same color. I think this is because ethe silk fibers are opaque while dry but translucent when wet?
This may be my favorite video 😂! What I’ve learned from Rebecca, soak your fiber!
Especially if non superwash!
Especially if non-superwash!
I was watching this late last night and thinking to myself, that dye is just gonna roll off that gloss yarn. I loved the outcome. I said I was done dyeing for the year but i might have to do one or two glosses.
I will look forward to that!
Thank yoU!
The silk blend is gorgeous, it looks like a summer sky! I personally prefer the shade of the slightly less saturated blue there too! I also love the way the super-wash wool looks. It seems like it would be fun to spin, maybe as a fractal? But it would look great chain-plyed too. The Wool of the Andie's is pretty enough but seems sort of boring, but that just means it would make a yarn that was better for something like cables or some other pretty pattern.
This is why I had to redo the whole thing. I think I filmed that immediately after finishing htat one. That video will come out in early 2025 :D
I am loving seeing more unspun wool! I've been spinning more lately and I have a bunch of undyed wool that I want to color. One thing I'm curious about is if you can dye stuff that's in batts as opposed to top. Also would love to see you dye wool and yarn the same way and then spin up the wool to show how different it is, but I know that's a LOT more work.
I have one video dyeing a bat. You can dye the, I would be very careful since they would be easier to felt than roving or combed top. But you can!
I love this idea of the side by sdie yarn vs woolt hat I spin up. Great suggestion!
@15:05
My left, outside shoebox, almost middle of box vertically and to the right horizontally.
A perfect little image of a white Lab puppy in the dyed roving. 🐶
I love all three! very fun!! I think I see hints of the green in the wool of the andes, but its blended. I want my tombstone to read, "She flew by the seat of her pants😂 so I enjoy experiments
LOL! I cann't believe how surprised I was by these results. I've already done this proejct again with presoaked wool - that will come out in January I think (or maybe early Feb? I don't remember)
Roving!!!
I'm watching this like some wild plot twist when that superwash went clear at beginning. I was yelling no way, WOW!! I usually have raw to prep and dye. I've only dyed superwash a couple times.
I still get surprised with how fast some fibers will soak up dye!
I’d always presoak the combed top… sometimes the presoak water is almost milky looking. I think there are variations in how heavily scoured the wool is, or maybe they add sprays to control the combing process depending on humidity etc…
I've wondered what it is that is cloudy in the water.
The only thing I can see right now is that the roving on the left is smiling at me 😁
OMG!
Hi Scientist Rebecca! Is there a “calculation” that predicts the loss of color intensity from wet fiber to dry fiber?
ooooo good question. I'm not sure. I think that qualatatively fibers that look more translucent when wet (like silk) will tend to have a larger wet to dry color transition. but other than that i'm nt sure. The good news is that you can always overdye if you want to intensify the colors more after seeing it dry.
I wonder how this would change if you added vinegar to the dye before you poured? I was surprised at how the vinegar seemed to soak in more easily than the water.
Despite this being an "oops" I love the rovings and the video, once again you have a fortunate fail, succesful mistake, beautiful blunder. Face it you can't fail with dyeing yarn!
I have a few videos I consider true "fails" because the resulted in something unusable. This one just made me laugh so much.
Do you have a steamer? (I don’t..) but I wonder what would happen if you put your dry top in the box, then give a hefty steaming before adding your dye. I wonder if it would hydrate and add weight, but be less cumbersome than fully wetting and then draining the top.
I'd worry about using the steamer over a plastic box.... but I do have a handheld one I bought for a video that I never used.
@@ChemKnitsTutorials oooh I think you should try it!! Do it over a cookie sheet or just on the counter top then put in the plastic bin! I bet you could get a lot of the effect of a presoak without all that messy weight of the real thing. Of course, if there is scum in your combed top, you won’t have rinsed that away, but you got good color here without the rinsing action of the pre soak.
Ps:
Was there a white core in the superwash too? It takes the dye so fast I find that penetration is pretty poor.