I just gathered all the red onion skins at the market, added an onion, and didnt have to ask! I had two huge bags of onion skins. Then boiled /cooked them forever and the color was gorgeous
Love it, I'm gonna try it, I've kettle dyed yarn with onion skins for socks for my son. Two years on they are still very vibrant. I used a slow cooker overnight to extract the colour, very easy and effective.
I did this a few years ago and got a large amount of onion skins from my local organic supermarket. When I asked, they helped me clean out all the dry skins in the display bin, then went to the back and got me a large bag filled with discarded skins. It was so awesome! 😄 They even asked me to bring in the yarn that I dyed with it, though it was not as good as these results Your results are gorgeous!
Just finished knitting a dog coat using yarn I dyed with red and brown skin, my first attempt at natural dying. The yarn was 60%wool 40%nylon and must have been produced in the 70's. Really pleased with results and all your advice is brilliantly put. Thanks it has given me confidence to try some more projects.
I would expect a nice warm brown. I'm not sure if the pigment will exhaust like onions to get this gradient effect, but I'll have to try again sometime. ruclips.net/video/Egz8qFSRExQ/видео.html
I have been saving [and collecting at the onion counter in the store] so soon I will try: no acid; vinegar; alum; and, alum and acid. Love this color. It has been 45 years since I did onion dyeing. Marigolds too.... Thanks for this great video, love that skein. ~Marie
I have dyed non-superwash merino yarn with red onion skins. The yarn was morded with alum and turned out olive green. I also did a alum morded skein with added sodiumbicarbonate wich turned out "golden orange" a kind of lion colour.
One big reason why I'm hesitant to do beets is the fact that they're a notorious fugitive dye and will definitely fade over time. I think my error last time was not doing a cold soak, and I will revisit it at some point. But a lot of red pigments end up shifting more brown as the red molecules either oxidize with the air or degrade. I do want to try again, but I do pause each time I'm at the market for these reasons. :D
LOL! I love it! Whether we see this one knit up is completely up to the sponsor sharing it on Instagram. I'm AWFUL about re-sharing things and asking to do that... I really should try harder to share after the fact.
I have to credit the community on this one! I haven't asked yet myself (I rarely go to the grocery store myself these day, usually my husband goes with the list now!) I need to do it for some red onion skins since I don't use enough red onions to collect them myself.
@@ChemKnitsTutorials Rebecca, you have probably figured out I love green the way you love purple! I have been trying going back to see if it will. I'm guessing the food colours will not stick to the cotton and I know the acrylic is a no go for that. I have no wool blends, just cotton and acrylic yarns white. Does the liquid or powder Rit break for dip dying? I have a dream to some day crochet a nod to my Irish linage. There is an old, old song that talks about " the 40 shades of green!" I have seen it and I think they were way off. I'm sure there are many more that 40!
Always love watching natural dye videos. I am wondering if you have ever dyed with Kashmiri chai tea leaves. They turn a beautiful red color. You have got to try it out sometime!
Onion skin is a substantive dye and doesn’t need a mordant. If you do mordant with Alum you may get a different in colour but the vinegar is not needed with natural dyes, it is used as a mordant with chemical dye as you know.
I wouldn't call vinegar a mordant exactly, since it really is adjusting the pH versus lending a metal ion to the dye to either shift the color or help make the interaction between the pigmented molecule and the fibers. The metal ion from mordants can shift the color of the pigments or at times it can allow the pigments to bind in the first place. That being said - I'm certainly not an expert on natural dyeing! :D
I asked at my local farm stand (where they have impeccably cleaned onions) if I could have their onion skins. They said yes and were puzzled about why I wanted them and then gave me a banker's box full of red and yellow skins. I do need to sort them, but I am thrilled. In the spring I'm going to ask about rhubarb leaves to experiment with. In one of the natural dyeing groups on FB, a woman just posted a picture of a huge garbage bag full of onion skins under her grocery cart; she'd asked the produce guy if he could put them aside for her. At the Maryland Alpaca Festival, I met a dyer that makes variegated yarn using natural dyes. She says that yarn doesn't need as much time to pick up pigment as we tend to think.
I've found some pigments seem like they'd do better for variegated techniques than others based on the speed etc. BUT I hope to explore more of that this summer.
@@ChemKnitsTutorials the techniques she showed me (we may have talked shop for a while) were dip dyeing by holding the hank in the middle and then moving the grasped part to dip in another color, maybe with some overlap creating a third or fourth color. The also used the twisted skein technique you used during the Chanukah Special in 2018. I think I shared some yarn I dyed after talking to her in the fall on the dye lab group where I got some neat variations between yellow, orange, green, and brown by mordanting some yarn in copper and some in alum and then dyeing them in marigolds with vinegar, cosmos with baking soda, yellow onions, and walnut hulls.
@@kathleenmcquade31 It's kind of a yellow/gold/beige but it's also a mordant which makes its use more interesting. Rhubarb leaves are toxic so only use dye safe equipment and most resources say to extract outside or in a well ventilated area.
I have not read all comments, but next time stick the onion skins into a mesh bag and not have the trouble of having vegetable matter left in the dye vat.
This is something that I always forget to do. It is more that I forget to have mesh bags on hand but maybe I should go order some RIGHT NOW! (I Have a few laundry bags but the holes are too thick to really help.) Thank you for the reminder!
@@ChemKnitsTutorials old nylon stockings if you wear them are another alternative, but they dont survive as long as the ones I sew from nylon insect screen. At least in Europe, you get them for 2 Euro in dollar stores, and they make lots decently sized dye bags easily.
@@ChemKnitsTutorialsI just did red onion skins. My small string of plain white wool came out intense bright yellow. I loved that, so I put in a bigger hank of wool, and it came out yellow-brown. So I don’t know what was going on there.
one way to keep the onion skins from being in the dye bath, you could use a cheesecloth or a china cap straining cone with a coffee filter. BTW beautiful colors for this yarn!!!
@@ChemKnitsTutorials orangey colors are my fav, then purples. I am definitely going to try this on some wool yarn I picked up at a yard sale a couple of weeks ago
Absolutely gorgeous!! And I had to laugh, I DO save onion skins (and other vegi scraps) in the freezer for chicken stock!!! I'm gonna save them for this now!!
Oh interesting! I didn't know that some teas have food coloring in them... but I probably should have expected that! I should try dip dyeing into tea...
Good question! Acrylic - no. In this video I looked at a few different fiber types and the superwash wool worked the best by far: ruclips.net/video/Egz8qFSRExQ/видео.html It would be interesting to try cotton on its own to see how much pigment it will absorb (without the superwash wool hogging the dye!)
Love all your video, I would like to see a comparison between different red colors, I found it difficult to have a nice red....not pinky or not to orange, thank you in advance
I like cherry bomb as a red, but it is a little bit pink I suppose. I do want to do some single color comparisons at some point. I don't have a complete collection of Dharma acid dyes at the moment, though.
I'm not sure if vinegar was necessary here at all. I only used it because I had added it in my previous experiment. Here is a playlist of a lot of my natural dyeing videos: ruclips.net/p/PLFvm3Bz7dhaXDnUbMSLsWtMwftb37pk6T I did a lot of alum mordant vs no mordant over the summer. Some pigments are pH sensitive, so I wasn't comparing vinegar in there on its own.
gorgeous rich colors ... r u supposed to use alum or aluminum phosphate I think for making it more colorfast? I was able to get mc cormack alum for 25 cents each but now I can't remember or find my notes what to do with it!
That is a gorgeous color and I'm not fond of orange but that looks so natural not a chemical orange. Do red onions give the same color? I stumbled across your channel and you are now a daily habit, going back to watch everything. I've never done any dying but now I'm going to give it a try. I have some ideas on putting color on yard. Would love to see you try a couple of yarn balls, one tight and one lose injected with dye using small luer lock blunt needles to inject dye into the center of the yard. Luer lock needles come in large and really small gauges. The larger gauge needles are longer than the small gauge :( Have also been wondering if you took Wilton's icing colors and spread a thin layer on plastic wrap, then set it aside to see if it would dry out, once dry peel the paper off, break up and see if you could to do speckles. Imagine a broken violet speckle if you could get one. I wish you were a next door neighbor, does your husband want to teach at UW Seattle?
I'm about to try some non mordant dying with some hand spun and then I'm going to try again with a mordanted batch and see what happens re: colourfastness and longevity
For cotton you want a fiber reactive dye or tie dye. Acid dyes and food coloring won't work on cotton. Some natural dyes work well on cotton but it really depends on the type of plant.
I haven't tried Tumeric directly, but it has been in some of the "natural" food colorings I've tested over time. To felt you need agitation in addition to heat. This is why boiling water can be a little more "dangerous" because the bubbles create some more movement. If I had been stirring this a LOT then we might have seen more felting. I find that the greater felting risk comes from the washing step where you might rub the yarn a bit - even with less heat. Also, the yarn in this video was superwash, so that is another reason why It didn't felt. :D
Yes - when I dip dye the dyebath is hot and the yarn going in is usually presoaked. It could be dry. The up and down isn't enough agitation (at least with this specific yarn base) to cause felting.
Maybe. I don't think it wouldn't change the intensity of the color but they would probably shift the hue. And potentially help with the longevity, too.
I wonder what orange, & lemon peels would do. If you would have to acid to the water, since they are already acidic. I bet blueberries & blackberries would make a cool natural die as well. Ooohh I bet strawberries would too.
I've read that berries can be fugative, so they will fade with time. But I still hope to try them at some point. Citric acid from citrus fruits should help out with dyeing. I'm not sure if colors can be extracted from oranges and lemons etc, but there is a possibility!
ChemKnits Tutorials Interesting. 🤔 I am curious to see! I didn’t know that about berries. Just know the juice stains for a couple of days after canning blackberries. Lol.
I got some nice browns! ruclips.net/video/5CUMuJFY440/видео.html Next time I'd try not heating the yarn after I extract the colors. BUT beets are a notorious fugative dye so it will likely fade over time.
I’ve actually heard that onion dye is highly fugitive, but that it tends to fade to a pretty, light yellow, so it’s not as devastating as other fugitive dyes!
That would be a huge bummer since this packed quite the punch right out of the gate (unlike red cabbage and beets that were a bit more underwhelming.) Fingers crossed that it lasts a while. The mini sample that I dyed over a year ago still is very pigmented, BUT that also hasn't been washed or knit or anything yet.
@@ChemKnitsTutorials It's possible that being careful with the fabric and not wearing it in direct sunlight will mitigate the issue. Hopefully I'm wrong! I'm no expert in this sort of thing by far!
I just gathered all the red onion skins at the market, added an onion, and didnt have to ask! I had two huge bags of onion skins. Then boiled /cooked them forever and the color was gorgeous
Woohoo!
I was just thinking red onion skins, but I can see that someone has already done this, it must be stunning!
I always love watching how natural dyeing works up. This is stunning. 🥰🧶🐑🐫🐐🦙🧶🥰
Love it, I'm gonna try it, I've kettle dyed yarn with onion skins for socks for my son. Two years on they are still very vibrant. I used a slow cooker overnight to extract the colour, very easy and effective.
LOVE IT! I'm so glad to get some info RE the longevity.
I did this a few years ago and got a large amount of onion skins from my local organic supermarket. When I asked, they helped me clean out all the dry skins in the display bin, then went to the back and got me a large bag filled with discarded skins. It was so awesome! 😄 They even asked me to bring in the yarn that I dyed with it, though it was not as good as these results
Your results are gorgeous!
I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOO thrilled with how this one turned out!
Just finished knitting a dog coat using yarn I dyed with red and brown skin, my first attempt at natural dying. The yarn was 60%wool 40%nylon and must have been produced in the 70's. Really pleased with results and all your advice is brilliantly put. Thanks it has given me confidence to try some more projects.
Amazing results! The colour is so deep. Worked much better than I thought.
I was honestly shocked the first time I tried it. I hoped and hoped that this would work and it came out even better than I had hoped!
This is ABSOLUTELY gorgeous!!!!!
Thank you! I'm so in love with the rich color that I've already started saving skins again. :D
I love the natural dyes. Thanks
You're very welcome!
That turned out stunning I love it x
Thank you so much!
I love the color
Thank you!
Omg I love this! Defense would love to see what yarn dyed with red onions will look like done this way
I would expect a nice warm brown. I'm not sure if the pigment will exhaust like onions to get this gradient effect, but I'll have to try again sometime. ruclips.net/video/Egz8qFSRExQ/видео.html
thanks I really like this one
I'm glad you like it! THank you for watching
Gosh what a pretty color! I plan on making lots of onion soup now. Suzanne enjoy your skein of yarn.
I really really want to make some chicken soup. :D
I have been saving [and collecting at the onion counter in the store] so soon I will try: no acid; vinegar; alum; and, alum and acid. Love this color. It has been 45 years since I did onion dyeing. Marigolds too.... Thanks for this great video, love that skein. ~Marie
Oooo this sounds like it will be an awesome experiment!
I have dyed non-superwash merino yarn with red onion skins. The yarn was morded with alum and turned out olive green. I also did a alum morded skein with added sodiumbicarbonate wich turned out "golden orange" a kind of lion colour.
Ooooo this sounds awesome! Mordants can absolutely shift the hue of some colored molecules.
This is a stunning colour. I really love watching your videos and think I should also try and start making my own coloured yarn.
YAY! I'm so glad you're going to give dyeing a try. It is so much fun.
I am going to try this
Beautiful color
Thank you so much!
For natural dyeing, you should revisit beets. You got a weird yellow last time and should try and figure out why and try for the pink again
One big reason why I'm hesitant to do beets is the fact that they're a notorious fugitive dye and will definitely fade over time. I think my error last time was not doing a cold soak, and I will revisit it at some point. But a lot of red pigments end up shifting more brown as the red molecules either oxidize with the air or degrade. I do want to try again, but I do pause each time I'm at the market for these reasons. :D
I would love to see that knit up! Also, will there be a new "No broth left behind!" series?! lol
LOL! I love it! Whether we see this one knit up is completely up to the sponsor sharing it on Instagram. I'm AWFUL about re-sharing things and asking to do that... I really should try harder to share after the fact.
Great idea about asking for the skins from the grocers!
I have to credit the community on this one! I haven't asked yet myself (I rarely go to the grocery store myself these day, usually my husband goes with the list now!) I need to do it for some red onion skins since I don't use enough red onions to collect them myself.
@@ChemKnitsTutorials Rebecca, you have probably figured out I love green the way you love purple! I have been trying going back to see if it will. I'm guessing the food colours will not stick to the cotton and I know the acrylic is a no go for that. I have no wool blends, just cotton and acrylic yarns white. Does the liquid or powder Rit break for dip dying? I have a dream to some day crochet a nod to my Irish linage. There is an old, old song that talks about " the 40 shades of green!" I have seen it and I think they were way off. I'm sure there are many more that 40!
@@ChemKnitsTutorials And is (are) there any plant(s) that will dye green?
Always love watching natural dye videos. I am wondering if you have ever dyed with Kashmiri chai tea leaves. They turn a beautiful red color. You have got to try it out sometime!
I haven't! I'll add it to my list to research.
Onion skin is a substantive dye and doesn’t need a mordant. If you do mordant with Alum you may get a different in colour but the vinegar is not needed with natural dyes, it is used as a mordant with chemical dye as you know.
I wouldn't call vinegar a mordant exactly, since it really is adjusting the pH versus lending a metal ion to the dye to either shift the color or help make the interaction between the pigmented molecule and the fibers. The metal ion from mordants can shift the color of the pigments or at times it can allow the pigments to bind in the first place. That being said - I'm certainly not an expert on natural dyeing! :D
I asked at my local farm stand (where they have impeccably cleaned onions) if I could have their onion skins. They said yes and were puzzled about why I wanted them and then gave me a banker's box full of red and yellow skins. I do need to sort them, but I am thrilled. In the spring I'm going to ask about rhubarb leaves to experiment with. In one of the natural dyeing groups on FB, a woman just posted a picture of a huge garbage bag full of onion skins under her grocery cart; she'd asked the produce guy if he could put them aside for her.
At the Maryland Alpaca Festival, I met a dyer that makes variegated yarn using natural dyes. She says that yarn doesn't need as much time to pick up pigment as we tend to think.
I've found some pigments seem like they'd do better for variegated techniques than others based on the speed etc. BUT I hope to explore more of that this summer.
@@ChemKnitsTutorials the techniques she showed me (we may have talked shop for a while) were dip dyeing by holding the hank in the middle and then moving the grasped part to dip in another color, maybe with some overlap creating a third or fourth color. The also used the twisted skein technique you used during the Chanukah Special in 2018. I think I shared some yarn I dyed after talking to her in the fall on the dye lab group where I got some neat variations between yellow, orange, green, and brown by mordanting some yarn in copper and some in alum and then dyeing them in marigolds with vinegar, cosmos with baking soda, yellow onions, and walnut hulls.
I have a cousin who grows rhubarb! Do you have any idea what colour you would get from them?
@@kathleenmcquade31 It's kind of a yellow/gold/beige but it's also a mordant which makes its use more interesting. Rhubarb leaves are toxic so only use dye safe equipment and most resources say to extract outside or in a well ventilated area.
@@saraa3418 what about the rhubarb itself? Does it give any colour?
I have not read all comments, but next time stick the onion skins into a mesh bag and not have the trouble of having vegetable matter left in the dye vat.
This is something that I always forget to do. It is more that I forget to have mesh bags on hand but maybe I should go order some RIGHT NOW! (I Have a few laundry bags but the holes are too thick to really help.) Thank you for the reminder!
@@ChemKnitsTutorials old nylon stockings if you wear them are another alternative, but they dont survive as long as the ones I sew from nylon insect screen. At least in Europe, you get them for 2 Euro in dollar stores, and they make lots decently sized dye bags easily.
I wonder how red onions or shallots would look, but the color is wonderful
christine murphy I was also going to suggest red onions 😊
Red onions were more of a warm brown color. ruclips.net/video/Egz8qFSRExQ/видео.html Although I didn't have quite as many saved up for that one.
@@ChemKnitsTutorialsI just did red onion skins. My small string of plain white wool came out intense bright yellow. I loved that, so I put in a bigger hank of wool, and it came out yellow-brown. So I don’t know what was going on there.
one way to keep the onion skins from being in the dye bath, you could use a cheesecloth or a china cap straining cone with a coffee filter. BTW beautiful colors for this yarn!!!
Great tip! I'm so glad you liked the yarn!
@@ChemKnitsTutorials orangey colors are my fav, then purples. I am definitely going to try this on some wool yarn I picked up at a yard sale a couple of weeks ago
Absolutely gorgeous!!
And I had to laugh, I DO save onion skins (and other vegi scraps) in the freezer for chicken stock!!!
I'm gonna save them for this now!!
It sure smelled good when I was doing this. ;)
Totally have dipped dyed with tea! But it was Thai tea, which is all yellow 5 and 6.
Oh interesting! I didn't know that some teas have food coloring in them... but I probably should have expected that! I should try dip dyeing into tea...
I would love to see test regarding lightfastness and stability of the colors.
Great suggestion!
That’s beautiful
Thank you!
Rebecca, will this technique work for cotton or acrylic?
Good question! Acrylic - no. In this video I looked at a few different fiber types and the superwash wool worked the best by far: ruclips.net/video/Egz8qFSRExQ/видео.html It would be interesting to try cotton on its own to see how much pigment it will absorb (without the superwash wool hogging the dye!)
Beautiful! What about red onions? What would you get there?
When I tried last (and I didn't have very many red onion skins) I got a lovely warm brown ruclips.net/video/Egz8qFSRExQ/видео.html
Love all your video, I would like to see a comparison between different red colors, I found it difficult to have a nice red....not pinky or not to orange, thank you in advance
I like cherry bomb as a red, but it is a little bit pink I suppose. I do want to do some single color comparisons at some point. I don't have a complete collection of Dharma acid dyes at the moment, though.
Do you ever plan to do a side-by-side of vinegar versus alum with natural dye?
I'm not sure if vinegar was necessary here at all. I only used it because I had added it in my previous experiment. Here is a playlist of a lot of my natural dyeing videos: ruclips.net/p/PLFvm3Bz7dhaXDnUbMSLsWtMwftb37pk6T I did a lot of alum mordant vs no mordant over the summer. Some pigments are pH sensitive, so I wasn't comparing vinegar in there on its own.
gorgeous rich colors ... r u supposed to use alum or aluminum phosphate I think for making it more colorfast? I was able to get mc cormack alum for 25 cents each but now I can't remember or find my notes what to do with it!
😱😱😱😱😱 amazing ¡!!!!!!¡ can you pls tell me is it possible to colour the fabric in this way ? Thank you very much😍😍😍💖💖💖
It might be, depending on the fiber content of the fabric. However, onions aren't very color fast over time so there may be fading with washing.
That is a gorgeous color and I'm not fond of orange but that looks so natural not a chemical orange. Do red onions give the same color?
I stumbled across your channel and you are now a daily habit, going back to watch everything. I've never done any dying but now I'm going to give it a try. I have some ideas on putting color on yard. Would love to see you try a couple of yarn balls, one tight and one lose injected with dye using small luer lock blunt needles to inject dye into the center of the yard. Luer lock needles come in large and really small gauges. The larger gauge needles are longer than the small gauge :( Have also been wondering if you took Wilton's icing colors and spread a thin layer on plastic wrap, then set it aside to see if it would dry out, once dry peel the paper off, break up and see if you could to do speckles. Imagine a broken violet speckle if you could get one. I wish you were a next door neighbor, does your husband want to teach at UW Seattle?
I'm about to try some non mordant dying with some hand spun and then I'm going to try again with a mordanted batch and see what happens re: colourfastness and longevity
Please share the results with me! I haven't washed things a lot, but the yarn stored has had color last a long time. (Stored out of direct sunlight.)
@@ChemKnitsTutorials I will let you know how it goes!
I have white cotton can I dye with any colour please reply and keep up the good work 😁🇬🇧👌
For cotton you want a fiber reactive dye or tie dye. Acid dyes and food coloring won't work on cotton. Some natural dyes work well on cotton but it really depends on the type of plant.
So interesting! Have you tried turmeric for yellow yet? Also, how come the wool didn’t felt?
I haven't tried Tumeric directly, but it has been in some of the "natural" food colorings I've tested over time. To felt you need agitation in addition to heat. This is why boiling water can be a little more "dangerous" because the bubbles create some more movement. If I had been stirring this a LOT then we might have seen more felting. I find that the greater felting risk comes from the washing step where you might rub the yarn a bit - even with less heat.
Also, the yarn in this video was superwash, so that is another reason why It didn't felt. :D
I am just watching this and did you put the wool in wet into the hot dye?
Yes - when I dip dye the dyebath is hot and the yarn going in is usually presoaked. It could be dry. The up and down isn't enough agitation (at least with this specific yarn base) to cause felting.
So what would you use for a mordant?
I didn't use a mordant for onion, but I use an alum mordant in many of my other videos.
If you used a mordant instead of or in addition to the vinegar, would that change the results?
Maybe. I don't think it wouldn't change the intensity of the color but they would probably shift the hue. And potentially help with the longevity, too.
I would like to see you dye a cake with onion stock
Oooo that could work really well! I'm saving up skins again.
I wonder if different berries would make different color dyes or if they would all be pink/red.
I think that a lot of berries fade over time, so that's one reason why I haven't tried it... yet. I'd like to TRY sometime. :D
I wonder what orange, & lemon peels would do. If you would have to acid to the water, since they are already acidic. I bet blueberries & blackberries would make a cool natural die as well. Ooohh I bet strawberries would too.
I've read that berries can be fugative, so they will fade with time. But I still hope to try them at some point. Citric acid from citrus fruits should help out with dyeing. I'm not sure if colors can be extracted from oranges and lemons etc, but there is a possibility!
ChemKnits Tutorials Interesting. 🤔 I am curious to see! I didn’t know that about berries. Just know the juice stains for a couple of days after canning blackberries. Lol.
Rebecca, have you tried soaking some nails for a long time for a mordant?
No, I haven't tried an iron mordant yet. :D
Have you tried beet juice before? I am thinking it would be a beautiful purple!
I got some nice browns! ruclips.net/video/5CUMuJFY440/видео.html Next time I'd try not heating the yarn after I extract the colors. BUT beets are a notorious fugative dye so it will likely fade over time.
I am so curious what color the red skins would yield
When I did it (with much less onion matter) I got a lovely warm brown: ruclips.net/video/Egz8qFSRExQ/видео.html I'd like to revisit it, though.
You tested with purple onion??
I have, but I didn't save up as much red onion skin as I did with the yellow. It made a nice warm brown: ruclips.net/video/Egz8qFSRExQ/видео.html
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I’ve actually heard that onion dye is highly fugitive, but that it tends to fade to a pretty, light yellow, so it’s not as devastating as other fugitive dyes!
That would be a huge bummer since this packed quite the punch right out of the gate (unlike red cabbage and beets that were a bit more underwhelming.) Fingers crossed that it lasts a while. The mini sample that I dyed over a year ago still is very pigmented, BUT that also hasn't been washed or knit or anything yet.
@@ChemKnitsTutorials It's possible that being careful with the fabric and not wearing it in direct sunlight will mitigate the issue. Hopefully I'm wrong! I'm no expert in this sort of thing by far!
I always love watching how natural dyeing works up. This is stunning. 🥰🧶🐑🐫🐐🦙🧶🥰
Thank you, Theresa!