Ok at the some point you need to do a leave no dye combined with a mop yarn and then overdyed again so we can see what happens when you layer crazy colours on top of each other. You’re so inspiring!
Love this. So mysterious how the colors cancel each other out and some take precedence while others disappear, where to??? During Covid I decided to go gray and I took all my box hair dyes which were auburn, henna brown, mahogany and dark brown inventory and dyed an old wool grey LL Bean (from thrift shop) large man's wool light worsted cardigan which I wore for wintry mornings in North Fl. It has moth holes but I don't mind, I dyed it camouflage blob style and it came out gorgeous browns and olive greens with NO trace of grey at all. I love it so much even with the progressing moth holes and slight felting from 5 previous years of hand wash. I call it my Henry Higgins sweater like he wore in The Sound of Music movie (sans elbow patches).!!! So fun to do outta da box lifestyle!
My water bill is surprisingly small! (Although I suppose things are relative.) I don't think it's changed much at all in the time we've lived in this house and my filming and dyeing increased a LOT after the first few years. The main reasons my bill is smaller is that we don't have an irrigation system - those use a lot of water. Newton also replaced all of our water meters recently so people have been talking about their bill size.
This is a lovely colour, I'm guessing the pale greens are from the cyan and yellows in some of the dyes. I have Dharma's Midnight and often get similar purples when using that colour. I like how it glazed the outside of the yarn and you could see some of the white underneath, I have a grey brown colour called Wombat that is made by Landscape Dyes (I think Dharma have them) and that works in a similar way, I often use it diluted to soften and deepen colours if I want a more muted effect and it works quite well for speckling too!
LOL. Sometimes I dye orange. When I'm scheduling videos I **TRY** to vary the colors and techniques that come out in the schedule. (Which means I separate videos a bit becuase there will be some dyeing days where I dye a LOT of the same color combination.)
@@ChemKnitsTutorials I think "sometimes I dye orange ;-)" needs to be on some Chemknits merch. I'm not going to lie, my go to colours are turquoise, purple, green and blue.
Maybe a dumb question (unrelated to this video, but don't know where to ask), but can't find an answer. In most videos (on your channel and other content I find) I see people mixing dye stock. But in my mind it's easier to mix powder and then add corresponding amount of water (e.g. if i want to have just a little bit of a colour - then making like 10ml dye stock seems a bit redundant, why not to just add this 0,1g to the powder of other colours and then calculate amount of powders combined x 100ml). Is there a reason why on video it's usually "make separate stocks first then mix"? I kinda of assume that content creators keep a lot of dye stock as they colour often, hence might be more comfortable for them. Or is there more practical reason like powders dont mix as well as already premade liquid dye stocks? Or just cause it's harder to take out powder from the mix if you added too much by accident? (though I guess similar story with mixing liquid dye stock...) Huge thanks for an answer!
This is a great question. I typically measure out each dye powder into it's own container. This is just in case I measure out too much, then I can add the extra powder back to the stock jar (versus if there was a second dye in there I could "contaminate" the stock) This goes back to my days as a research scientist and the way we would do things. YOu can 100% mix the powders first. I have a powder mixture that is ~0.5 g of 40 different dyes that I created during a stream once. (Super fun) I I'm goign to do multiple projects with one color, I will make a stock of that color with a known concentration so then I can use it in multiple vidoes. These stocks were left over from some projects where I was dyeing 13+ skeins of yarn, so having the stock for the project made sense. (I always mix more than I might need for the project so I won't run out and have to mix more.) I only make the stocks if I will be using liquid dye for a particular project.
If I'm just measuring out a tiny amount of dye for one project, I frequently won't make a 1% stock solution. I'll just dissolve the dye in a random amount of water since I'm planning on using all of the dye i measured in the project. The stock is useful if I'm going to do multiple batches or I want to know the concentration so I can calculate different mixes (like for my color mixing videos.)
this is such a gorgeous dusty purple
Thank you so much!
pretty I always enjoy your videos
Thank you!
Ok at the some point you need to do a leave no dye combined with a mop yarn and then overdyed again so we can see what happens when you layer crazy colours on top of each other. You’re so inspiring!
I've done some things like that before, but maybe not specifically?
Colour mixing is such an interesting science - I wish I could study it full time!! Very pretty, but curious as too where the colours went 😊.
yes so fascinating since they weren't in the rinse water either.
Very pretty.
Love this. So mysterious how the colors cancel each other out and some take precedence while others disappear, where to??? During Covid I decided to go gray and I took all my box hair dyes which were auburn, henna brown, mahogany and dark brown inventory and dyed an old wool grey LL Bean (from thrift shop) large man's wool light worsted cardigan which I wore for wintry mornings in North Fl. It has moth holes but I don't mind, I dyed it camouflage blob style and it came out gorgeous browns and olive greens with NO trace of grey at all. I love it so much even with the progressing moth holes and slight felting from 5 previous years of hand wash. I call it my Henry Higgins sweater like he wore in The Sound of Music movie (sans elbow patches).!!! So fun to do outta da box lifestyle!
Beautiful
Gorgeous! I love your videos and yarn. Also, we should have a contest where we guess your monthly water bill 😅😅
My water bill is surprisingly small! (Although I suppose things are relative.) I don't think it's changed much at all in the time we've lived in this house and my filming and dyeing increased a LOT after the first few years.
The main reasons my bill is smaller is that we don't have an irrigation system - those use a lot of water. Newton also replaced all of our water meters recently so people have been talking about their bill size.
@@ChemKnitsTutorials that's amazing!
This is a lovely colour, I'm guessing the pale greens are from the cyan and yellows in some of the dyes. I have Dharma's Midnight and often get similar purples when using that colour. I like how it glazed the outside of the yarn and you could see some of the white underneath, I have a grey brown colour called Wombat that is made by Landscape Dyes (I think Dharma have them) and that works in a similar way, I often use it diluted to soften and deepen colours if I want a more muted effect and it works quite well for speckling too!
I haven't used landscape dyes yet. I think there was some emerald green in this mix as well, but I might be misremembering.
Would it be chemknits if there wasn't purple?
LOL. Sometimes I dye orange. When I'm scheduling videos I **TRY** to vary the colors and techniques that come out in the schedule. (Which means I separate videos a bit becuase there will be some dyeing days where I dye a LOT of the same color combination.)
@@ChemKnitsTutorials I think "sometimes I dye orange ;-)" needs to be on some Chemknits merch. I'm not going to lie, my go to colours are turquoise, purple, green and blue.
@@airenesmiler6624 LOL. I did just screenshot this. The orange and purple yarn I dyed up sold SUPER fast....
@@ChemKnitsTutorials 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Maybe a dumb question (unrelated to this video, but don't know where to ask), but can't find an answer. In most videos (on your channel and other content I find) I see people mixing dye stock. But in my mind it's easier to mix powder and then add corresponding amount of water (e.g. if i want to have just a little bit of a colour - then making like 10ml dye stock seems a bit redundant, why not to just add this 0,1g to the powder of other colours and then calculate amount of powders combined x 100ml). Is there a reason why on video it's usually "make separate stocks first then mix"?
I kinda of assume that content creators keep a lot of dye stock as they colour often, hence might be more comfortable for them. Or is there more practical reason like powders dont mix as well as already premade liquid dye stocks? Or just cause it's harder to take out powder from the mix if you added too much by accident? (though I guess similar story with mixing liquid dye stock...)
Huge thanks for an answer!
This is a great question. I typically measure out each dye powder into it's own container. This is just in case I measure out too much, then I can add the extra powder back to the stock jar (versus if there was a second dye in there I could "contaminate" the stock) This goes back to my days as a research scientist and the way we would do things.
YOu can 100% mix the powders first. I have a powder mixture that is ~0.5 g of 40 different dyes that I created during a stream once. (Super fun) I I'm goign to do multiple projects with one color, I will make a stock of that color with a known concentration so then I can use it in multiple vidoes. These stocks were left over from some projects where I was dyeing 13+ skeins of yarn, so having the stock for the project made sense. (I always mix more than I might need for the project so I won't run out and have to mix more.) I only make the stocks if I will be using liquid dye for a particular project.
If I'm just measuring out a tiny amount of dye for one project, I frequently won't make a 1% stock solution. I'll just dissolve the dye in a random amount of water since I'm planning on using all of the dye i measured in the project. The stock is useful if I'm going to do multiple batches or I want to know the concentration so I can calculate different mixes (like for my color mixing videos.)