This is fascinating, I love when you get a completely unexpected result! I think this is a technique to keep in mind for the future. Whether it's a LNDB or something to add to the "wheel of mystery techniques and colors" options, it's definitely worth doing again. I am curious how different skeins wound by different companies at different times would vary in this technique, vs one you wound yourself, but I think you've got a lot more specific ideas that take priority.
I love love LOVE this skein. I have a picture that I took at Wegmans a year or two ago of tons and tons of blue and white Orchids. The blue came in different shades with the flowers having more white then blue. I took the picture because I felt the colors and white would make a beautiful colorway and this skein so reminds me of those flowers. You got a beautiful balance between blue, purple and white without even trying.
Silly questions are the best ones! Things that make me go... "I don't think so" and then realize "wait... why would I just say I don't think so... I have to try it!" are the ABSOLUTE BEST!
I absolutely love the way your brain teaches my brain, so I understand it better. Pure dopamine. Not to mention, as a newby, it's fascinating at how things turn out.
i have ideas brewing now!! i would definitely reskein my yarn and go with a rainbow colorway, maybe with some white resist throughout. I tried using acrylic yarn for resists before but it did not work, I guess i have to try zip ties next time!
Love how this turned out! Those colors speak to me. ❓❓❓ Have you ever dyed a cake of yarn that you caked up from a hank. Like, soaking the bottom in a bowl of dye, then flipping it?❓❓❓
I've done a lot of variations of dyeing yarn cakes over the years. Some I may have flipped. www.youtube.com/@ChemKnitsTutorials/search?query=cake%20dyeing
Ok, now I do kind of want to see if you re-skein it first :) Though doing a pair of socks if you'd done two of them would still be pretty cool... 26:24 I see chaos dyeing has also occurred to you... bwahaahaahaaa!!!
If you really wanted to dye a gradient, you could wrap the yarn around the niddy-noddy in a progressive fashion to keep one end separate from the other, and then dye it while still on your niddy-noddy (since it's plastic, it won't hurt it). Dip-dyeing a sock blank would functionally create a gradient as well.
You know, I've never dyed the yarn while it is on the niddy noddy, but have done connected miniskeins a lot of times and once I took the yarn of the niddy noddy and dip dyed it in an odd way. ruclips.net/video/NBFt8F1SWiU/видео.html (Keeping it on a niddy noddy to dip dye might be easier. I'll have to play around with this sometime!! Although my niddy noddy is too big for the kettle... but I'll try to design something to do this. Here is my gradients playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLFvm3Bz7dhaXospgjTmFY4q2VHHyDRQoa
I made an ombre by making connected mini-skeins and dip dying with only one color in the pot. I used turquoise. It took forever to rinse it. I did two sessions with heat setting before each session. I'm still not sure if it won't bleed when made up and blocking/washing.
I have not tried any planned pooling projects. Some of those yarns that knit up into ghosts and thigns are so amazing! I'm not sure the level of precision is my style, but I might try it on a miniskein sometime where it is "easier" to get more precise color shifts as a proof of concept. :D
Fascinating! (And less stress is good). 💙💜🩵 It seems the method is completely beholden to the mill skeining process. If you look at the mechanics of cone winders (with the strands being layered right to left to right…) it seems intuitive (to my engineering mind) that is likely the process used in the mills to make the skeins. But this was a really fun video! Not quite the expected outcome, but definitely a method that is very useful for balanced yarns! 🩵💜💙 Thank you.
It is 100% dependant on the mill, and unless you wind the skein yourself you really don't know what the outcome would be. It is lovely that I can feel more confident about balanced colorways and feel like I don't need to obsess about each strand getting some of each color (which I used to stress about a lot. I haven't as much in recent years but still.)
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That's beautiful. I hope the person who knits this will share with us the results. Super fun.
I love it!!
I'm really surprised that it wasn't even kinda sorta 50/50.....the randomness is amazing.
Same! I didn't expect 50/50, but I expected to notice a bit more color at one end than the other.
That technique is so much fun, I just have to try this out. Thanks Rebecca. Love your video’s.
Thanks Rebecca...I love the colors....
This is fascinating, I love when you get a completely unexpected result! I think this is a technique to keep in mind for the future. Whether it's a LNDB or something to add to the "wheel of mystery techniques and colors" options, it's definitely worth doing again. I am curious how different skeins wound by different companies at different times would vary in this technique, vs one you wound yourself, but I think you've got a lot more specific ideas that take priority.
I love love LOVE this skein. I have a picture that I took at Wegmans a year or two ago of tons and tons of blue and white Orchids. The blue came in different shades with the flowers having more white then blue. I took the picture because I felt the colors and white would make a beautiful colorway and this skein so reminds me of those flowers. You got a beautiful balance between blue, purple and white without even trying.
I LOVE WEGMANS!!! It is my favorite grocery store. :D (totally random reply, but I couldn't help but share my wegmans love)
Thank you so much for doing this after my seemingly silly question. I'm going to have a play with this technique, it's so fascinating. xx
Silly questions are the best ones! Things that make me go... "I don't think so" and then realize "wait... why would I just say I don't think so... I have to try it!" are the ABSOLUTE BEST!
So THANK YOU!!!!
I absolutely love the way your brain teaches my brain, so I understand it better. Pure dopamine. Not to mention, as a newby, it's fascinating at how things turn out.
Awe, I'm so glad I can help!!
This was such an interesting experiment, thank you!
Love it!
I had a weird idea to hand paint blocks of colors on a sock blank . Like a Checkers board
Very interesting. I think I want to try this and see if I get something similar.
I would really love to see this knit up into socks.
Huh - so fascinating to see the reskeining. I could not even begin to guess what it would look like.
Very fun. Thanks for filming this experiment.
i have ideas brewing now!! i would definitely reskein my yarn and go with a rainbow colorway, maybe with some white resist throughout. I tried using acrylic yarn for resists before but it did not work, I guess i have to try zip ties next time!
Love how this turned out! Those colors speak to me.
❓❓❓ Have you ever dyed a cake of yarn that you caked up from a hank. Like, soaking the bottom in a bowl of dye, then flipping it?❓❓❓
I've done a lot of variations of dyeing yarn cakes over the years. Some I may have flipped. www.youtube.com/@ChemKnitsTutorials/search?query=cake%20dyeing
(The search may only show up on desktop and not mobile. If you're on a phone, try looking for the gradients playlist)
@@ChemKnitsTutorials Thx!
Ok, now I do kind of want to see if you re-skein it first :) Though doing a pair of socks if you'd done two of them would still be pretty cool...
26:24 I see chaos dyeing has also occurred to you... bwahaahaahaaa!!!
If you really wanted to dye a gradient, you could wrap the yarn around the niddy-noddy in a progressive fashion to keep one end separate from the other, and then dye it while still on your niddy-noddy (since it's plastic, it won't hurt it). Dip-dyeing a sock blank would functionally create a gradient as well.
You know, I've never dyed the yarn while it is on the niddy noddy, but have done connected miniskeins a lot of times and once I took the yarn of the niddy noddy and dip dyed it in an odd way. ruclips.net/video/NBFt8F1SWiU/видео.html (Keeping it on a niddy noddy to dip dye might be easier. I'll have to play around with this sometime!! Although my niddy noddy is too big for the kettle... but I'll try to design something to do this.
Here is my gradients playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLFvm3Bz7dhaXospgjTmFY4q2VHHyDRQoa
I made an ombre by making connected mini-skeins and dip dying with only one color in the pot. I used turquoise. It took forever to rinse it. I did two sessions with heat setting before each session. I'm still not sure if it won't bleed when made up and blocking/washing.
@@cindyfrye3026 Turquoise is a big bleeder for sure.
@@cindyfrye3026 I meant while dyeing, I'm not sure about during blocking. I think cold might be fine depending on how much dye you used.
have you tried assigned pooling?
I have not tried any planned pooling projects. Some of those yarns that knit up into ghosts and thigns are so amazing! I'm not sure the level of precision is my style, but I might try it on a miniskein sometime where it is "easier" to get more precise color shifts as a proof of concept. :D
Are you going to dye another skein with the white buffer left in the middle to get us ready for Hanukkah?
I could try sometime!
You could heat set hand painting with a heat gun. Then there would be no squishing.
I have a handheld steamer that I've been meaning to try using... I just haven't brough thtat out yet.
Fascinating! (And less stress is good). 💙💜🩵 It seems the method is completely beholden to the mill skeining process. If you look at the mechanics of cone winders (with the strands being layered right to left to right…) it seems intuitive (to my engineering mind) that is likely the process used in the mills to make the skeins. But this was a really fun video! Not quite the expected outcome, but definitely a method that is very useful for balanced yarns! 🩵💜💙 Thank you.
It is 100% dependant on the mill, and unless you wind the skein yourself you really don't know what the outcome would be. It is lovely that I can feel more confident about balanced colorways and feel like I don't need to obsess about each strand getting some of each color (which I used to stress about a lot. I haven't as much in recent years but still.)