Spinning IS weird. The German word for a niddy noddy is "Haspel" and it is the source for the German word for "to get muddled" or "to flounder" or "to splutter" which is "sich verhaspeln", as in "to make a mistake when using the niddy noddy". Lovely dye results. What a fun project to do with unexpected weather!
"I don't know if it helped, but it made me feel better." YES. Sometimes that is exactly what you need. I love the subtle mottling of the colors. When I'm buying yarn, it isn't something I see very often. Looking forward to your next adventure!
"Because wool lies" I've never felt something concerning wool hit home more or make me laugh harder. Wool lies, it's amazing and it's awful XD I really enjoyed this video, the idea to use snow is so simple yet genius, wish I'd thought of that when we had our rare snow day. Hope you'll get around to more dye experiements in the future.
Snow in March! Welcome to Springtime in Colorado! On a normal "good" year, this will continue, off and on, until, and including, May with the chance of snow up until the 4th of July. 🤔ooooooh, you're in England. Sorry. I love how these turned out. I have the worst time with dyes. I can never get them to set, at least not in the things I want to stay dyed. Nice job!
Oh I'd love to see some video on tie-dye or plant dyeing if you make some! Also, you might not be able to grow indigo, but woad is a gorgeous plant, and surprisingly well behaved! (as in, once you've planted some, it'll come back year after year with no work on your part, which is quite handy ^^)
Commenting to keep the algorithm gods happy (I don't want to talk about the weather, but the died yarn turned out really pretty; mayhaps we'll even see some of the knitted pieces at some point here --fingers crossed)
Plant dyeing can be surprisingly lowkey. You can use time in place of heat to extract the dyestuff, for instance. And then more time instead of heat to dye the fibre/fabric. I dyed two tunics with soursobs over a few months - a month to let the dye extract from the flowers, and then another month each sitting in a pot in my laundry. All I had to do was shake the dye extraction twice a day, and then stir the tunics in the dye bath every time I went past/thought of it/could be bothered. MUCH easier for me than trying to organise a giant pot of simmering liquid for an entire day.
Ash, it is March and I have been around long enough to know that this sort of weather DOES happen in the UK. Love the colours they came out really nice, look forward to see what you turn the wool into.
OK. So Britain is presently getting Canadian weather and Canada is having a British end of winter... oh kay... Love the dye results. Well done. The microwave trick is Brilliant - maybe use casserole dishes the next time. - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
Hi Cathy! Was just explaining that this not summer weather yet. It’s 10C. Also there’s still the possibility of snow storms into April. even a light flurry into May! He’s not impressed with that information 😂
@@robintheparttimesewer6798 Planting date around here is the May long weekend. How you doing? I've yet to add the lining into my vest. But it's finally in a state where I can wear it, so I have...
@@stevezytveld6585 things are ok. I got the biopsy on my hand so I now have to remember not to do anything stupid. I keep forgetting and using it or banging it. But hey we had sunshine today!! I’ve missed sunshine. I’m going to have look up that John Denver song. Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy…
@@robintheparttimesewer6798 Good for the biopsy getting done. Pain in the neck that it's in such an awkward place. Good thoughts to you that it heals up quickly. And yeah, the yellow thing in the sky came back... I almost forgot what it felt like to be on the bus in the sunlight. Such a difference. Rivers are a bit swollen, but not too badly. Makes me want to peruse the Vessy's seed catalogue. This summer the balcony vegetable patch is coming back... ... now my brain is humming John Denver.
@@stevezytveld6585 Sorry about that Cathy. I hope you like John Denver. There are actually a lot of songs about the sun we could be humming Oh and thanks for the good thoughts. Right now my biggest problem is remembering not to pick up my coffee with that hand.
They look nice! Any plans for what you'll make with them? With normal dyebaths the purpose of adding the vinegar later is to ensure a more even colour - you wait until a lot of the dye has soaked into the fibres and then add the activator so you don't end up with it darker on the outside where the dye hit it first (which is also why soaking it in water beforehand is important, so you don't end up with white spots in the middle where the water didn't get to. In textiles class in college we put wool to soak overnight in big buckets of water with a drop of detergent to break the surface tension. We also have to keep carefully moving it around with tongs while dyeing, wether it's with acid dyes on the stove, or reactive dyes in a big plastic vat.) I've never done ice dyeing but I've done a lot of other kinds, and the easiest way to get mottled yarn like that is just to cover a table with a plastic sheet or tray, lay out your pre-vinegar'd skeins on a few layers of plastic wrap, and just daub the dye liquid on with those sponge brush thingies. Then we'd wrap them up in the plastic wrap and steam them in pots. I still have all my samples and notes from the textiles class, and my mother teaches it, so message me if you want to talk dyeing!!
This is all really useful! I’m enjoying learning a lot more about the Science of it all. I may very well take you up on that offer! I think the pink/orange will be a jumper, but I’m not sure about the browns yet
I for one enjoy the wide variety of things that you do! Your wool turned out beautifully. Does that mean we’re going to see knitting? I’m not apposed to knitting.
I enjoyed watching your video. I found a large salad spinner at my local thrift store to spin water out of my skeins and it works great. Please consider wearing a mask with dye powders for safety? Cheers.
Tie dying with close shades also gives a similar mottled/variegated effect. I’m Not sure if I’ve dying would be better, but it looks more unpredictable
Ugh you and the closet historian are making me badly wish we'd gotten our yearly quota of snow and I could have a NEW craftttt. (Menaces the lot of you) (please do not remind me that I can easily get ice)
Spinning IS weird. The German word for a niddy noddy is "Haspel" and it is the source for the German word for "to get muddled" or "to flounder" or "to splutter" which is "sich verhaspeln", as in "to make a mistake when using the niddy noddy".
Lovely dye results. What a fun project to do with unexpected weather!
Omg I've had a desire to figure out plant-based yarn dying for like 18 months, and you'd be the perfect person to learn from! Please try it out! 🤞🏽
Your "off topic" videos make the rest of us feel better about our shinny craft syndrome
"I don't know if it helped, but it made me feel better." YES. Sometimes that is exactly what you need. I love the subtle mottling of the colors. When I'm buying yarn, it isn't something I see very often. Looking forward to your next adventure!
oh wow, you had a *lot* of snow! wild adventures with dye are never unwelcome here
"Because wool lies" I've never felt something concerning wool hit home more or make me laugh harder. Wool lies, it's amazing and it's awful XD
I really enjoyed this video, the idea to use snow is so simple yet genius, wish I'd thought of that when we had our rare snow day.
Hope you'll get around to more dye experiements in the future.
Snow in March! Welcome to Springtime in Colorado! On a normal "good" year, this will continue, off and on, until, and including, May with the chance of snow up until the 4th of July.
🤔ooooooh, you're in England. Sorry.
I love how these turned out. I have the worst time with dyes. I can never get them to set, at least not in the things I want to stay dyed. Nice job!
I roll up the towel and tread on it, gets the skein pretty dry before I hang it
Oh I'd love to see some video on tie-dye or plant dyeing if you make some!
Also, you might not be able to grow indigo, but woad is a gorgeous plant, and surprisingly well behaved! (as in, once you've planted some, it'll come back year after year with no work on your part, which is quite handy ^^)
Commenting to keep the algorithm gods happy
(I don't want to talk about the weather, but the died yarn turned out really pretty; mayhaps we'll even see some of the knitted pieces at some point here --fingers crossed)
Plant dyeing can be surprisingly lowkey. You can use time in place of heat to extract the dyestuff, for instance. And then more time instead of heat to dye the fibre/fabric. I dyed two tunics with soursobs over a few months - a month to let the dye extract from the flowers, and then another month each sitting in a pot in my laundry. All I had to do was shake the dye extraction twice a day, and then stir the tunics in the dye bath every time I went past/thought of it/could be bothered. MUCH easier for me than trying to organise a giant pot of simmering liquid for an entire day.
Ash, it is March and I have been around long enough to know that this sort of weather DOES happen in the UK. Love the colours they came out really nice, look forward to see what you turn the wool into.
OK. So Britain is presently getting Canadian weather and Canada is having a British end of winter... oh kay...
Love the dye results. Well done. The microwave trick is Brilliant - maybe use casserole dishes the next time.
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
Hi Cathy! Was just explaining that this not summer weather yet. It’s 10C. Also there’s still the possibility of snow storms into April. even a light flurry into May! He’s not impressed with that information 😂
@@robintheparttimesewer6798 Planting date around here is the May long weekend.
How you doing? I've yet to add the lining into my vest. But it's finally in a state where I can wear it, so I have...
@@stevezytveld6585 things are ok. I got the biopsy on my hand so I now have to remember not to do anything stupid. I keep forgetting and using it or banging it. But hey we had sunshine today!! I’ve missed sunshine. I’m going to have look up that John Denver song. Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy…
@@robintheparttimesewer6798 Good for the biopsy getting done. Pain in the neck that it's in such an awkward place. Good thoughts to you that it heals up quickly.
And yeah, the yellow thing in the sky came back... I almost forgot what it felt like to be on the bus in the sunlight. Such a difference. Rivers are a bit swollen, but not too badly. Makes me want to peruse the Vessy's seed catalogue. This summer the balcony vegetable patch is coming back...
... now my brain is humming John Denver.
@@stevezytveld6585 Sorry about that Cathy. I hope you like John Denver. There are actually a lot of songs about the sun we could be humming
Oh and thanks for the good thoughts. Right now my biggest problem is remembering not to pick up my coffee with that hand.
They look nice! Any plans for what you'll make with them?
With normal dyebaths the purpose of adding the vinegar later is to ensure a more even colour - you wait until a lot of the dye has soaked into the fibres and then add the activator so you don't end up with it darker on the outside where the dye hit it first (which is also why soaking it in water beforehand is important, so you don't end up with white spots in the middle where the water didn't get to. In textiles class in college we put wool to soak overnight in big buckets of water with a drop of detergent to break the surface tension. We also have to keep carefully moving it around with tongs while dyeing, wether it's with acid dyes on the stove, or reactive dyes in a big plastic vat.)
I've never done ice dyeing but I've done a lot of other kinds, and the easiest way to get mottled yarn like that is just to cover a table with a plastic sheet or tray, lay out your pre-vinegar'd skeins on a few layers of plastic wrap, and just daub the dye liquid on with those sponge brush thingies. Then we'd wrap them up in the plastic wrap and steam them in pots.
I still have all my samples and notes from the textiles class, and my mother teaches it, so message me if you want to talk dyeing!!
This is all really useful! I’m enjoying learning a lot more about the Science of it all. I may very well take you up on that offer!
I think the pink/orange will be a jumper, but I’m not sure about the browns yet
You can dye with mushrooms too :D
Cool project! I was actually wondering about wool with this method! Lol I probably have more than would fit in the microwave with fabric though.
If you’re afraid of felting when pressing dry with a towel put a sheet between the towel and the yarn so only the sheet touches the yarn
I for one enjoy the wide variety of things that you do! Your wool turned out beautifully. Does that mean we’re going to see knitting? I’m not apposed to knitting.
I enjoyed watching your video. I found a large salad spinner at my local thrift store to spin water out of my skeins and it works great. Please consider wearing a mask with dye powders for safety? Cheers.
Tie dying with close shades also gives a similar mottled/variegated effect. I’m
Not sure if I’ve dying would be better, but it looks more unpredictable
Ugh you and the closet historian are making me badly wish we'd gotten our yearly quota of snow and I could have a NEW craftttt. (Menaces the lot of you) (please do not remind me that I can easily get ice)
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I have woad seeds. just saying.
I believe you can grow indigo in UK. Lots of fb groups do. I tried and failed once, will try again!
But if I wanted the seeds that would have helped!
Not me remembering I have a silk pink sari sitting in my fabric bin and a giant bottle of blue food colouring and vinegar...
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Very nice indeed 🌺