How (not) to Dye a *HUGE* pile of Yarn for a Victorian Biking Outfit
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- I wanted to turn 10 balls of yarn into the perfect blue color for my 1890s bicycling outfit, and struggled the whole way! Food coloring + heat + acid = blue yarn!
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Engineering knits is a place for people who enjoy all kinds of vintage and antique crafts - from sewing to knitting, crochet to embroidery I like to try it all. I definitely have a preference for historical fibre crafts, and it is my dream to one day make an entire outfit from sheep to sweater. I hope you enjoy watching me and my favorite companion, Nutella, struggle through some fascinating projects!
I just want to note that I laughed at your pun and only your pun. The rest of the time I was deep into this video. You are right. The yarn is much closer to sapphire than the name that I am failing to spell correctly. 🤦🏾♀️. Kudos on your yarn dying project. 🥳🥳
My sister used to dye and sell yarn and it takes a lot of math and careful measurement to achieve predictable results. It's much more involved than one might think. I love the blue you finally got, the purple under tones are really pretty.
The colour is stunning. I’m super excited to see the outfit come together.
I really like the very subtle variegation of the final result. The first result (the non-colourfast batch) looked deliberately variegated. I think a perfectly solid colour could have ended up looking a bit... bland/plain/artificial, especially for a historical project. I especially like that the variegation isn't just between two values of blue (lighter and darker versions, eg, same dye but different concentration) but between two temperatures of blue (warmer and cooler versions, ie, a true/royal blue and a warmer/purplish blue). The closest word I can think of for the final effect is "textured", if that makes sense.
I've watched some of the tutorials on ChemKnits and some I like but I also saw some things I did not agree with. Like putting dry woolen yarn directly in hot water. Or going straight from hot to cold. (Which you weere doing too.) I also noticed she was selling stuff that just isn't lightfast (black bean dyes), I wouldn't be happy if my yarn fades after a being outside a few times.
I'm so happy for you that you managed to safe your yarn! And it's so pretty! Looking forward to the sweater.
So in case anyone (here in the comments) is wondering I have some tips:
- For wool and silk I'd sugest heating soaked yarn with the water, slowly, and letting it cool down in the dye bath slowly - this prevents felting.
- To dye yarn the fiber can only absorb a certain amount of dye. All that is left in the dye bath is wasted. (But can be used for a next lot.) So if your yarn isn't the intensity of colour you want but there's still plenty of colour in the bath, don't add more colour, add more heat and time.
- For some dyes it can be useful to let the yarn dry first and rinse after. Not sure how this works for acid based dyes like food colouring, I've mainly seen it in regards to madder and other plant based dyes.
Slightly felted made my heart drop. I am so happy you could save it all.
Love Rebecca’s tutorials. Was tickled to find out when I found her RUclips channel, Chem Knits Tutorials, that she was the creator of life science knitting patterns that I had come across years back. What is great about her tutorials, is although you can be a science geek to follow what she does, you definitely don’t have to be one.
Whew!!! Glad your fraught journey ended in such lovely (and usable) yarn.
Thanks for sharing your dying adventures. The blue color of the yarn you're working with for your bicycle outfit is beautiful and looks like the Fleisher's 1920s Sapphire to me.
Relieved to see you managed to rescue your yarn, alpaca is a wonderful fibre but it just loves to felt.
Omg I love your corgi shirt!🤣
With semi-felted yarn you're going to have an extra warm sweater! and in a gorgeous colour! (the hint of purple is LOVELY)
Wow love the colour! It looks very much like what you were going for. Glad you were able to save it from being felted.
I do admire your patience ❤️😃👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
What a beautiful colour! It's going to be a gorgeous sweater
Yarn dying is so addictive...especially with plant dye! Makes me want to experiment all day just to see what colours you get.
Ah, the perfect video to watch while knitting 💖 I really like the colour you got in the end!
Quite the process. So glad it turned out for you. The colour is amazing!
The colour turned out gorgeous!
it turned out such a pretty blue ^-^
This color us so lovely! You did it! !!
I love the teeny, blue skeins! So cute! I like both your "failed" dye and your final dye; they're different but both beautiful.
I've dyed yarn using food dye. I'm no expert, but I'll give you my process in case it helps. The dye I used was egg dye, prepared according to box directions, and/or liquid food dye, which was just dripped into the dye pot until it looked good. I used one cup of vinegar per pound of yarn (wool,) or one cup of salt per pound of yarn (cotton.) The additive was mixed into warm water until incorporated, and then the yarn was added and left to soak overnight. The next day, I filled my crock pot with fresh, warm water and turned it on. I added the yarn and then poured the dye over it. I was going for a variegated look, so I used two colours and did not mix the dye pot (blue and green.) I let this "cook" on low until the dye pot was exhausted, then carefully lifted it out and rinsed it in my bathtub. I did NOT squeeze, squish, or wring: I just held the skein with one hand and rinsed with the handheld in the other. I hung it to dry, and that was that. (The finished shawl is on Ravelry at ravelry dot com /projects/Celebrindae/the-sunlight-shawl-for-sad-people and the pictures came out a little yellow, so it's slightly more blue than shown.)
What an odyssey! 😱 I'm glad it all worked out, in the end. The color is beautiful. 💙
chemknits is my hero
GORGEOUS YARN
Chemknits is my fave YT channel! So thrilled to hear you used her tutorials 😊
I found that citric acid works better than vinegar. And you can get it as food grade so there are no unwanted chemicals. It's fairly inexpensive. I used to dye yarn often and I would dye it in an old large crockpot (or several of them) that I purchased at yard sales. You created a great blue color. Love the different shades in the yarn.
The final colour looks lovely!
Oooh yeah that's such a pretty colour, 💖
It was so fun to watch your process. I love the end colour.
the perfect video to watch while i make progress on my cardigan!
The end result was really pretty and close to the Sapphire color on your chart. Thank you for showing the failure...so interesting how you managed to get the felted yarn back to individual strands. I'm wondering if, in the felting process, you might have lost some yardage as the strands not only felted, but shrunk a bit? This is what I've experienced when felting occurs. Did this possibility occur to you? Nevertheless, I've never felted wool yarn strands, only finished projects. Thanks for the video. It was very instructive.
I don’t know why but I never thought of dying yarn. Could be a game changer. I love baby yarns but they usually only come in white, cream, pink or blue and I am more of a grey or black kind of person 😁.
fun thing about natural wool fibre: it is not the heat that causes the felting. you can pour boiling water on the wool no problem
the felting is caused by agitation regardless of the temperature of the water
I tried this theory out on a ruined wool cloak (it was gifted to me with the comment "if you can save it. it's yours") someone tried to treat it with lanolin and didn't do any research or swatches
I've boiled it and washed it and the only thing that caused felting was when I tried to do the classic washing of rubbing the fabric against itself (in cold water), I promptly stopped doing that when i noticed as I do want to preserve the weave
I dye my own yarn. But I use acid dyes. And citric acid. If you measure out what you do it is easy to batch die. I do 2 skeins at a time. And I can get them all to look the same.
If for some reason after the second wash there is still color. I put it back into citric acid and hot water.
Citric acid is better than vinegar. You need so much vinegar to color fast yarn. But I can sprinkle citric acid and be fine.
The color is amazing!
Thank goodness you were able to save your yarn. And it turned out such a pretty combination of shades! Your sweater will be lovely.
Hi there, this was a very cool video. Thank you very much. That yarn to me looks closer to Sapphire. Looking forward to future episodes about this project hugs to you and Nutella!
Very nice job!
Congratulations
I'm glad you were able to save that yarn and rewind it! I see Sapphire as the best match. That pot you bought is huge! I love it!
Lovely! Can't believe you risked dying that a second time. I totally wouldn't have. Kudos! Such a lovely shade and that cycling sweater will be fantastic I am sure! I love alpaca myself, but it doesn't hold its shape as well as merino does in a garment with sleeves that large. Can't wait to see how you find it knitting up. ❤️
well done... some great tips here
I just found this video and am glad I did, I am working on the same pattern. Looking forward to seeing your results.... I did not dye my yarns, I did find some colors that I was happy with (Scheppies, Our Tribe in Silver Birch, and Blue Flower Haze. I have to say, this has been quite the challenge for me, but again, I always choose projects that are above my skill level
beautiful colour!
Such a beautiful blue! Excited to see how it knots up!
I am so clad you managed to save the felted yarn! It would have been sad to lose all that. The end result turned out beautiful!
Oh, Chemknits is a fantastic channel. I'm glad you got a big pot. It will definitely come in handy if you ever have another large project.
I am intrigued
I really like Cushing dyes because they come in small envelopes so you can order several colors to experiment with, without it costing a ton. They have a huge color palette and the only times I've needed to combine colors was when I was trying to match something someone else had dyed. I then wash with Keiralon (formerly Synthropol) which traps any excess dye so you don't have to rinse forever and risk felting.
That blue is just making me want to knit something…
The end colour is gorgeous, I agree that it lies between asteria and sapphire 😊 greatly looking forward to seeing the jumper knit up and the rest of the biking ensemble 😄 I had the same plans last year, but first I had to wait for my dream yarn to finish production (the softest, bounciest yarn, you wouldn’t believe it) and then I got tendinitis in both arms😂 just my luck, hehe. This is tiding me over until I can start myself🥰
Such a pretty color you ended up with! I think the color ended up closer to the sapphire color but still has hints of the french blue. Looking forward to seeing this lovely yarn knit up into your biking outfit.
This is so cool! I had no idea you could dye yarn with food colouring. I've dabbled in plant dyes in the past and concluded that it's just too much of a hassle for me, but I might try this...
Are we not going to address the sheer amount of bright fun colours available in the 1920s? Despite all the fashion plates I still sometimes think that all that was available were neutrals
Your dying process perplexed me, did you calculate how much dye you needed? Why didn't you set your cold process yarn with steaming? I am happy for you that your yarn turned out nice and knittable
This was so neat to see! When you did your video with the wode I loved it but kept it as an interesting watch since there's no where near me to source any sort of plants in large quantities, so this time with the food colouring I was thinking maybe I try this too at some point. One confusion though: Isn't food colouring and food dye water soluble? I've had some spots of it dried on my counter that I didn't notice for weeks and they still easily cleaned up with a wet paper towel. How do you get it to stick to the yarn? Does the heat help to set it in some way, or was that the acid part of the equation? I suppose it's off to deep dive into the chem channel now xD
I'm glad you managed to save the yarn, it would have been devastating to lose it after that much time and effort.
You're lucky to success in dyeing but a question came to my mind, why the yarn became felted in the first time while it didn't in the second time although you put it in boiling water or at least hot water I guess on the oven
It looked like the rinsing agitated the wool, not the dying. Because the second attempt was color-fast, it needed less rinsing, and thus was not agitated as much.
To full /felt yarns, fibers or sweaters you need 4 things. Heat , cold , slip (soap) and friction (agitation). She used heat to set the dye in the yarn then let it cool completly so she eliminated heat . It looks like when she rinsed she didnt use soap which cuts down on the slip factor and since she didnt have to rinse the yarns much, friction was cut down a minimum too. I am just super impressed she saved all that yarn.
@@kristalburns3490 Yeah, or what can also ruin yarn in my experience is putting woolen yarn from a hot bath (the fiber being all stretched out) into a cold bath (the fiber tightening up in the wrong way).
@@snazzypazzy You still have slip with the water and friction with just the moving of the yarn. My signifigant other felted a pair of socks just by wearing them. So there is also the fact that some fibers are going to felt faster than others.
@@SebastianGrimthwayte oh I see thx for the info ☺
Completely food safe. (Eats yarn like spaghetti)
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Looks like sapphire to me. It's beautiful!