Oh, Rebecca! Considering our convo this week, I find it super ironic that I had not yet seen this video somehow and that youtube suggested it to me after today's video. This is SIMPLY gorgeous, and I'm a certain fan of the technique. I hadn't considered zip ties for the resist, but it makes SO MUCH SENSE! plus, you get larger areas of resist then I would expect with yarn ties. The only possible thing that could make this a better galaxy is if the yarn had stelina in it, but the acid might be too much for it. Gorgeous colorway, and probably the best indie dyed galaxy yarn I've ever seen.
Oh thank you! I think you'll like the video that (hopefully - I still have to edit it) will come out next week. It is another resist one. :D I had jury duty on Monday and Thankfully didn't get impaneled (the case I was almost on was a multi-week trail! but My number was late the queue so they ran out of time to see all of the prospective jurors so I was excused.) so I can get back to some dyeing. :D
I was super happy dyeing with just food coloring for years! The big thing that converted me more to acid dyes was a larger range of colors that I could use that didn't break. I still love food coloring, though!!
This is my favourite recent video. The extra little tips and how the yarn worked out are great. I would love to see more swatches with yarns you have dyed though please
I wish that I could provide more swatches in my videos, however, at this time I don't have the capacity to do it. (If I'm ever able to expand the team beyond just me then this is something I'd consider!) I try to provide swatches for self striping videos because the length of the color sections makes a bit of a difference in how something will knit up. With other colorways, the way the yarn knits up will vary so much based on gauge, flat vs round, knit vs crochet, that it is hard to predict how it will look.
I was thinking the same thing while you were putting the resist ties in, that it looked like a chromosome. LOL! And that end result! Oooooh MAH GAWD, so gorgeous!!!
i am so!!!! happy with this!!!!!! im planning on knitting the dragon wing cowl off of ravelry with this yarn and im so excited to see how the final project comes out
"It looks a little bit like a chromosome right now." Seriously, you are so adorable. That made me laugh! I was looking at my crochet when you made that comment and had to instantly look up.
This is SO pretty! I like how the "black" isn't completely opaque so that the gradient shows up underneath, especially the area where the two skeins were bound together, causing more resist between them.
Any chance you could show how this works up? I've always been curious how long the stripes are when you do the broken violet dip dye. This is going to be my first dye I attempt
It should look like a micro strip. Depending on the way it’s cast on. But another way to tell is if your making socks wrap a couple strands around you wrist. But it should be black about 3/4 sts then the color then the black. Hope that helps till a video gets released on it.
Before I did a Christmas-tree-with-lights resist colorway, I knit a small gauge swatch on the "correct" needle size. I marked the beginning and end of 10 stitches and unravelled those 10 stitches, measured, and divided by 10. That told me how much yarn was in each stitch. I found when doing the knitting that using the exact length of yarn per stitch sometimes didn't give me a resist color that showed. It was sometimes hidden on the back side. Fortunately, it didn't matter on my Christmas tree. (My stitch length on worsted was 1" per stitch. Yours might be different. )
Dip dyed broken violet can be microstripes on fingering weight done on socks, or more of a spiral pooling on a hat or something wider. I don't have the capacity to provide swatches in most of my videos, unfortunately.
I keep trying to get wool of the Andes, but last time I checked it's out of stock until May!! 😭😭 I wanted worsted. ☹️ I'd be filling all those "empties" with water!! 😂🤣😂🤣 I'm loving this!! I'm not that big on the straight broken violet, this is amazing!!
I'm not sure if I did it in this video or a different one but I save all of the leftovers. ;) I actually have a LNDB with the wilton's almost empties coming up at some point!
yes, but with an ***. There isn't a good black food coloring dye, Black food coloring tends to lean purple or green on yarn. So you can do it for sure, just not with a black.
I wonder if the mark could be a little bit of burnt/melted zip tie? Probably lower temp needed to damage the zip ties than the yarn. The yarn turned out beautiful!
I am enjoying watching your videos as I get ready to do a dye day. I am an experienced dyer, but still learning. Question for you on Speckling: If I want a solid light background color with speckles of brights on top, should I dye the solid first and add speckles to wet or wait till the solid is dryer and then just mist with vinegar water then add dry speckles? TIA
Technically you can go either way, but I typically dye the pastel color first and then speckle on top of it. Occasionally I've done the reverse - especially if it could be hard to see the speckles when wet.
Yes, although with something like this since the size of the resist varies throughout the skein it would be hard to get things identical with zip ties. You would want to do smaller butterflied sections to be more consistent with teh colors.
I do use re-usable zip ties! Just double check that the listing is still re-usable. Amazon has replaced the same product listing with non reusable ones a few times on me!
I don't think so. My best guess is that it was a glob of dye that got stuck or something. It did wash off. I've never seen the nylon ties melt... I suppose it is possible but I don't think so.
Maybe, although I doubt it because I haven't ever seen any melting from the nylon. I've seen them shift their hold a bit over time, but they have a higher melting temp (i think(
Unfortunately you cannot use food coloring or acid dyes on cotton yarn. (You might get some staining but most of the color would wash out.) However, this should work with tie dye/fiber reactive dyes. The breaking might not be the same, but you can hand paint to get a fun gradient first and then do a resist layer.
What am I doing wrong? I've only had 1 skein turn sort of purple with a break into muted purple-blue using food colouring & white vinegar. I tried all of your tips with my hand spun yarn (slightly yellow to start) but even after adding a tonne of white vinegar and simmering for nearly an hour - very little dye was taken up and the dye bath still full of colour!! I even tried adding lemon juice as a form of additional acid but still nothing. I'm wondering if it is down to the quality of food colour? Would non white yarn affect my dying? Wonder if I need to invest in acid dyes instead? any advice? Thanks
Hi Mark, I'm assuming your handspun yarn is wool. The yellowish color may tone the purple less bright but it should still work. Double check the ingredients of your food coloring If the ingredients are Red #3 and Blue #1 then you should get a similar color. If the pigments are natural food colors then it might not work as well. The food coloing I used in this video was Wilton's Violet icing color but I did this one a few years ago so I'm not sure if they've updated their recipies at all since then.
@@ChemKnitsTutorials Hi Rebecca - there are no ingredients on these colours! They are supermarket brand as not much else available unless I order online. The picture is sort of similar to mine but I have one skein which is a maroon and some of the others range from a violet to a very light tone. I adjusted ratios and added more acid but just wouldn't work. I then remembered I had a pack of citric acid and this did help to somewhat exhaust the pot but not fully. I also tried the Fanta trick - but in the UK they have moved most stuff away from artificial colours now and it just didn't work :( I'm going to order some proper acid dyes as I've got tonnes of fleece to work with (more to arrive soon ;). Thanks for your helpful advice.
B E A U T I F U L yarn! I think a rainbow underneath with black over the top def should be next!! 💖
That would be beautiful!
This made me think of the way that batiks or Fabergé eggs are dyed, which I think would make a super interesting yarn
I tried a glue resist on a sock blank once and it worked, but was a bit of a pain to wash out (and I was oh so nervous, lol.)
OMG. This is my favorite dye I've ever seen you do!!!!
Wow, thank you!
Oh, Rebecca! Considering our convo this week, I find it super ironic that I had not yet seen this video somehow and that youtube suggested it to me after today's video. This is SIMPLY gorgeous, and I'm a certain fan of the technique. I hadn't considered zip ties for the resist, but it makes SO MUCH SENSE! plus, you get larger areas of resist then I would expect with yarn ties. The only possible thing that could make this a better galaxy is if the yarn had stelina in it, but the acid might be too much for it. Gorgeous colorway, and probably the best indie dyed galaxy yarn I've ever seen.
Oh thank you! I think you'll like the video that (hopefully - I still have to edit it) will come out next week. It is another resist one. :D
I had jury duty on Monday and Thankfully didn't get impaneled (the case I was almost on was a multi-week trail! but My number was late the queue so they ran out of time to see all of the prospective jurors so I was excused.) so I can get back to some dyeing. :D
I agree food coloring is a lot cheaper then starting straight out with all the professional dyes and the xtra needed equipment.
Beautiful colorway
I was super happy dyeing with just food coloring for years! The big thing that converted me more to acid dyes was a larger range of colors that I could use that didn't break. I still love food coloring, though!!
This is my favourite recent video. The extra little tips and how the yarn worked out are great. I would love to see more swatches with yarns you have dyed though please
I wish that I could provide more swatches in my videos, however, at this time I don't have the capacity to do it. (If I'm ever able to expand the team beyond just me then this is something I'd consider!) I try to provide swatches for self striping videos because the length of the color sections makes a bit of a difference in how something will knit up. With other colorways, the way the yarn knits up will vary so much based on gauge, flat vs round, knit vs crochet, that it is hard to predict how it will look.
@@ChemKnitsTutorials if only I didnt live in the UK I would have tried to help, hopefully you can expand soon x
I was thinking the same thing while you were putting the resist ties in, that it looked like a chromosome. LOL!
And that end result! Oooooh MAH GAWD, so gorgeous!!!
Thank you so much!!
Good morning, Rebecca!!! A fantastic way to start the morning ... an excellent dye pot!!!
Belated good morning and thank you so much! (I suppose it is morning NOW... but I'm a few days late!)
i am so!!!! happy with this!!!!!! im planning on knitting the dragon wing cowl off of ravelry with this yarn and im so excited to see how the final project comes out
Thank you so s o so much for being my lab partner! I'm so glad you love the yarn and hope you tag me in a photo when it is done!
Very pretty! I think it would be pretty to twist the yarn and over dye it to get more resist areas.
Oh yes - this would be really pretty to do, too!
"It looks a little bit like a chromosome right now." Seriously, you are so adorable. That made me laugh! I was looking at my crochet when you made that comment and had to instantly look up.
LOL! It just made me feel like I was going to talk about mitosis or something.
Absolutely beautiful!
Thank you so much!
This is SO pretty! I like how the "black" isn't completely opaque so that the gradient shows up underneath, especially the area where the two skeins were bound together, causing more resist between them.
I was nervous that I would push the black too far but it was just what I was hoping for!
Absolutely stunning
Thank you so much!
hello Rebecca great job. purple is life; o) it is my favorite color
Thank you! 🤗
Any chance you could show how this works up? I've always been curious how long the stripes are when you do the broken violet dip dye. This is going to be my first dye I attempt
I was going to ask this same question
I'd like to see it knit up too!
It should look like a micro strip. Depending on the way it’s cast on. But another way to tell is if your making socks wrap a couple strands around you wrist. But it should be black about 3/4 sts then the color then the black. Hope that helps till a video gets released on it.
Before I did a Christmas-tree-with-lights resist colorway, I knit a small gauge swatch on the "correct" needle size. I marked the beginning and end of 10 stitches and unravelled those 10 stitches, measured, and divided by 10. That told me how much yarn was in each stitch. I found when doing the knitting that using the exact length of yarn per stitch sometimes didn't give me a resist color that showed. It was sometimes hidden on the back side. Fortunately, it didn't matter on my Christmas tree. (My stitch length on worsted was 1" per stitch. Yours might be different. )
Dip dyed broken violet can be microstripes on fingering weight done on socks, or more of a spiral pooling on a hat or something wider. I don't have the capacity to provide swatches in most of my videos, unfortunately.
i LOVE this. really curious as to how it'll look worked up.
I hope the Lab Partner will tag me when it's been finished! :D
As usual, I'm in love with the pale pastel leave no dye behind! ahahaha
Thank you so much!
Really love this
Thank you so much!
Great dye job love the black satin look!
Thank you somuch!
Beautiful
Thank you!
I keep trying to get wool of the Andes, but last time I checked it's out of stock until May!! 😭😭
I wanted worsted. ☹️
I'd be filling all those "empties" with water!! 😂🤣😂🤣
I'm loving this!! I'm not that big on the straight broken violet, this is amazing!!
Leave no dye behind!
I'm not sure if I did it in this video or a different one but I save all of the leftovers. ;) I actually have a LNDB with the wilton's almost empties coming up at some point!
Gorgeous girl just gorgeous
Thank you so much, Carol!!!
Very pretty.
Thank you! 😊
Can you do what you just did with all food coloring this is gorgeous thank you for sharing
yes, but with an ***. There isn't a good black food coloring dye, Black food coloring tends to lean purple or green on yarn. So you can do it for sure, just not with a black.
I wonder if the mark could be a little bit of burnt/melted zip tie? Probably lower temp needed to damage the zip ties than the yarn.
The yarn turned out beautiful!
I haven't ever seen the zip ties melt before, so I'm not sure. Maybe some undissolved dye or something.
Groovy!
Thanks!
Ooooo. Pretty 🦋🦋🦋
Thank you! 🤗
I wonder how you could make a resist on the undyed yarn, dip-dye it, and set it so that there would be stripes of color between wide bands of white.
Thick ribbon and rubber bands?
That yarn is stunning!!!
Also I have a very odd question about dying with koolaid...can you do so in masion jars???
Sure! It should work fine in mason jars.
@@ChemKnitsTutorials Awesomeness thank you :)
I am enjoying watching your videos as I get ready to do a dye day. I am an experienced dyer, but still learning. Question for you on Speckling: If I want a solid light background color with speckles of brights on top, should I dye the solid first and add speckles to wet or wait till the solid is dryer and then just mist with vinegar water then add dry speckles? TIA
Technically you can go either way, but I typically dye the pastel color first and then speckle on top of it. Occasionally I've done the reverse - especially if it could be hard to see the speckles when wet.
Thank you! I am excited to recreate a sock yarn from an indie Dyer that no longer makes the colorway.
hey have u thought of laying the skeins in acircles, on top of each other then using the zip ties to get them more similar
Yes, although with something like this since the size of the resist varies throughout the skein it would be hard to get things identical with zip ties. You would want to do smaller butterflied sections to be more consistent with teh colors.
Do you use specific zip ties that you can re-use them? I can't get mine apart to save my life (or yarn in this case) haha
Oooops, sorry, just saw your Amazon link to the zip ties! :)
I do use re-usable zip ties! Just double check that the listing is still re-usable. Amazon has replaced the same product listing with non reusable ones a few times on me!
Was the black mark in the pan a slightly melted zip tie?
I don't think so. My best guess is that it was a glob of dye that got stuck or something. It did wash off. I've never seen the nylon ties melt... I suppose it is possible but I don't think so.
I have sensitive skin and Wool of the Andes make me feel itchy and turns my skin blotchy. I'm "stuck" with merino and other very soft breeds.
Awe, that sucks! Although I love merino!
The black marks in the pan could have been from a melted zip tie.
Maybe, although I doubt it because I haven't ever seen any melting from the nylon. I've seen them shift their hold a bit over time, but they have a higher melting temp (i think(
How do you keep your non-superwash clean and in good condition?
I hand wash our winter hats mittens occasionally (not that often TBH!) and dry flat. I might lightly re-block if needed.
Did a ziptie melt on the pan?
No, I think it was just some dye or something. The zip ties were unaffected. I still have no idea what it was, but it came off the pan, thankfully.
Can I use your technique in my cotton yarn?
Unfortunately you cannot use food coloring or acid dyes on cotton yarn. (You might get some staining but most of the color would wash out.) However, this should work with tie dye/fiber reactive dyes. The breaking might not be the same, but you can hand paint to get a fun gradient first and then do a resist layer.
What am I doing wrong? I've only had 1 skein turn sort of purple with a break into muted purple-blue using food colouring & white vinegar. I tried all of your tips with my hand spun yarn (slightly yellow to start) but even after adding a tonne of white vinegar and simmering for nearly an hour - very little dye was taken up and the dye bath still full of colour!! I even tried adding lemon juice as a form of additional acid but still nothing. I'm wondering if it is down to the quality of food colour? Would non white yarn affect my dying? Wonder if I need to invest in acid dyes instead? any advice? Thanks
Hi Mark, I'm assuming your handspun yarn is wool. The yellowish color may tone the purple less bright but it should still work.
Double check the ingredients of your food coloring If the ingredients are Red #3 and Blue #1 then you should get a similar color. If the pigments are natural food colors then it might not work as well. The food coloing I used in this video was Wilton's Violet icing color but I did this one a few years ago so I'm not sure if they've updated their recipies at all since then.
@@ChemKnitsTutorials Hi Rebecca - there are no ingredients on these colours! They are supermarket brand as not much else available unless I order online. The picture is sort of similar to mine but I have one skein which is a maroon and some of the others range from a violet to a very light tone. I adjusted ratios and added more acid but just wouldn't work. I then remembered I had a pack of citric acid and this did help to somewhat exhaust the pot but not fully. I also tried the Fanta trick - but in the UK they have moved most stuff away from artificial colours now and it just didn't work :( I'm going to order some proper acid dyes as I've got tonnes of fleece to work with (more to arrive soon ;). Thanks for your helpful advice.