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Yarn Dyeing
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Get ready for a colorful adventure as Andrew (Caliri Creations) and Kelly (Cocky Crocheter) dive into the thrilling world of dyeing yarn! They're spilling all the secrets, from mind-blowing breakthroughs to hilarious, hand-ruining disasters.
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Introduction
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Thank you.
00:00:13
Speaker
Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of 2ccs of Fiber Arts. I am Kelly and I'm here with Andrew today, as we always are for these
Experiences with Yarn Dyeing
00:00:23
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episodes. And today we are talking about one thing that I know that a lot of us have experience with, um but maybe like different levels of, and that is yarn dyeing. So that is typically like when we envision yarn dyeing, it's probably going to be like, you know, hand dyeing, but in general, just like yarn dyeing and methods behind it and everything like that. And, you know, what what exactly it is and everything. So um I know that Andrew has some experience with dyeing his own yarn. And so I'm definitely interested to talk a little bit about his journey and ask him a couple of questions like along the way about like, you know, choices and, you know, like methods and all that stuff. So Andrew, are you ready to start talking about dyeing yarn?
00:01:06
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Oh yeah, definitely. ah you know, I had a lot of fun on my yarn dyeing journey. i learned a lot. And, you know, it wasn't always like an easy journey.
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um And I'm very beginner. I'll just say that also. Like, I am the very beginning of the entryway to being an indie dyer.
00:01:32
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And I haven't done anything in, like, months. So, I'm very non-profesh. But... um You know, the experience that I had was pretty fun, like getting to play around with like, oh, well, if I put this on the yarn, how will that affect the final color? i well What if I do it this way or try this dyeing method?
00:01:53
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um But, you know, was all just kind of like playing around in the kitchen kind of vibe. Yeah. No, that makes sense. Okay. so let's kind of like start from the beginning. So um I know that you kind of you told me that you got your first experience with actually dyeing yarn at, I think, one of your retreats with your knitting group. Is that right?
00:02:14
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Yeah. Okay. So let tell me about that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that was really fun. i had not dyed yarn before then. And at that workshop, ah at the retreat, the first one, we were learning how to dye yarn with Kool-Aid.
00:02:30
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So those little like Kool-Aid packets that you don't have sugar in them, that's important. ah theyre They're just like the the flavor and the color. And then you add the sugar if you make Kool-Aid, but not for dyeing. But we learned there how to how to dye yarn with Kool-Aid. And ah the yarn that I got out of that one was not the best because the base that I chose was like a beige instead of a white.
00:02:59
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And so the color that I put onto it was all kind of like filtered through like layer. You know what I mean? Like, it didn't absorb into the yarn as well as it would have on, like, a plain white.
00:03:12
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So, that was already my first lesson in yarn dyeing, was that if you really want the colors to pop, you should just do it on a plain white background. Like...
00:03:23
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ah the The yarn that I was using was like a natural, you know, like unbleached or something. ah So it was like that, you know, natural like sheep's color or something. Yeah. I don't know how else to describe it but ah so it didn't absorb the color as well. So that was like lesson than one right off the bat. Yeah. Okay. So then did you, um was the yarn like provided for you or did you like were told you were going to be doing this and so you just brought your own? Like,
00:03:49
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Yeah, I brought my own. And I i was basically just going for, ah like, undyed yarn, but I didn't order it online. I just went to, like, Joann's, because they were still around at that time.
00:04:02
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And it was, like, one of the only yarns there that was undyed. And the guy leading the class said that it would work. And to be fair, it did work. it just It wasn't as crisp as, like, I think it could been. what, out of curiosity, was the color you did, or were trying to do?
00:04:19
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Yeah, ah well, I was just trying, like, random
Speckled Yarn Techniques
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things. And so, like, i had a couple different, ah like, hanks that I ended up with. They were, like, half-sized hanks.
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um And so I tried one that was, like, orange. And I was kind of going for, like, a speckled vibe. That did not happen. That did not happen. I'll tell you right now. And then the other one, i don't even know. I was just playing around. i did with, like, purple and yellow and blue.
00:04:52
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And... It just came out kind of ugly. Honestly, both of them ended up being like a little bit ugly. Okay. So when you were trying the speckles, okay. So like when you were learning this, okay, now I've got a several questions. So like the guy who was leading this, was he telling you different techniques for how to achieve certain things like variegation or speckling or anything like that? Or was it just here, here's the stuff, play around with it, make some yarn.
00:05:21
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Yeah. It was like um a mix of that. Like he definitely was giving advice on what to do. I just wasn't like fully listening to that. i was like having fun, you know, like, Ooh, I'll add this color and this color under hair turned out to be crap. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be like, well, I know, i know.
00:05:40
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Yeah. That's, that's a bit on me. Um, but he did mention that like, if you want, ah speckles to like put dried Kool-Aid powder onto the yarn.
00:05:50
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um But I just thought like, I think at that point I had already, so we were like using dissolved powder. So we would like mix the powder with water and then we'd use a syringe to kind of like ah drop it all over yarn.
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um And so I had done that with like one color and I was like, oh, well, this will give me like speckled, you know, um but it does not. I tell you, don't, it it will not give you a speckled yarn. And some people did get like speckles with the dried Kool-Aid powder.
00:06:25
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So ah yeah, I just, I had already done my version of trying to get speckled yarn. And so when he mentioned that, oh, like use the powder, i was like, ah well, let's just see how it comes out. and Didn't pan out in my paper.
00:06:40
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Should have listened. Oh, wow. That was my first experience. And then the second experience I had was also a knitting retreat led by the same guy. And he was showing us how to use food coloring to dye yarn in that one.
00:06:58
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um And in that one, ah the yarn came out a lot better. I i brought a bright white yarn, so I learned from that. the The color was much more crisp and defined.
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um But that one, I had a problem with adding way too much color. and So then there wasn't enough yarn to absorb all the color. And so then I had a big problem with bleeding. o And yeah, it that one was also like kind of a nightmare for that i believe that. Did you um ever try to knit with it or crochet with it at all? or Yep, i sure did. And my hands turned red.
00:07:39
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Like, really red. I had to... oh my God. I had to finish knitting that scarf with gloves. wow. Because... And I had to, I fixed the bleeding issue on the actual scarf later.
Troubleshooting Dye Issues
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So the scarf is fine now. It doesn't like turn my neck red or anything. But while I was knitting it, I was like, no, my hands. god you both And it means like this yarn is totally like, I can't use this. So I imagine that that was like, you came out of and was like, oh, I'm so, it looked it looks like you committed murder. Yeah.
00:08:17
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What the heck? Oh, i did it ruin your needles when you did that? ah No, because I was using metal needles. Oh, thank goodness. So it was fine. Yeah, because I've definitely encountered yarn bleeding from hand-dyed yarns before that has gotten on my hands, but also has gotten onto my hooks. like The hook itself was fine because it's metal, but then the silicone or the wood like handle would absorb some of the dye. And I'd be like, why is the top part of this blue? or red or whatever. I'm like, Oh my God. It's collecting the dye from the yarn. oh oh my God. Okay. So yeah, definitely yarn bleeding is one of those things that can be kind of problematic for hand dyed yarns. Um, so when you eventually started making like your own little candy shop collection, did you like encounter bleeding issues still? Like when you were doing those?
00:09:17
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Uh huh. Yes. Oh my God. So much bleeding. And that was one of the reasons why I was like, ah this sucks. Like, I hate doing this.
00:09:30
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But i actually, you gave me the advice that ah changed everything. And that was to add vinegar into the wash bath process. Because vinegar will add acidity to the wash basin.
00:09:46
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And that will help. So the whole process of dyeing yarn you usually is like you need acid for the yarn to or be able to like take up the color.
00:09:57
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And so if you have a lot of bleeding, it's probably because your tap water or whatever water you're using is like on the basic side. And so it's kind of counteracting the process that you need.
00:10:09
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Like you need the acidity for the color to stick. So if you add vinegar, which is like a strong acid, then you're changing the pH of the water and then it actually helps the water ah are it helps the dye stick onto the yarn so that you don't have bleeding.
00:10:27
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And ah once I added the vinegar... Changes everything. No bleeding at all. thank goodness. Yay. I'm so... I forgot that actually that was advice I gave you. was so long ago. Yeah. In my mind. Yeah, that was you. Yeah, okay. And that's funny because like I... Okay, so funny thing is that I have not dyed yarn ever. like not even experimented played around with it. And I have been like, okay. So I like to say, I'm like, I'm a yarn dire adjacent. Like I have been next to it around a lot. Yeah. So I've picked up stuff just from that, but I myself have no real experience with it. So any advice I ever give to people, if they act like with, for you is because they've talked about it. Like they're telling each other advice and like, you know, they're talking about their processes and I'm like, Oh my God. So I come off as like, know, well, have you tried this? Like, have you tried adding vinegar? Because you know, the pH and water tap water can be a little basic. Like I wouldn't have known that on my own. Like I'd But you did.
00:11:37
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You did know it. So, it i i mean, it
Professional vs. Food-Safe Dyes
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helped. It was like a game changer. Yeah, well, I'm glad that it was. And I think that that's one of those things where when you were going through that process, it was fascinating to me because I was like, you, like you said, you had no experience with it, but also you were still doing something totally different from anybody I had ever been around. So everybody who I know who does yarn dyeing pretty much uses a lot of the same ingredients. They'll use like the acid dye powders that you buy, like they're professional powders that you buy. um like Dharma or something like that. And then they used citric acid or vinegar. And then they have like hot plates or ah ovens and it's a whole professional setup. And they're like, because you can't die with these types of acid dyes in your kitchen because the fumes, the chemicals, like they will, like you can't consume that. That's bad. Like you have to wear a mask and use gloves and all this stuff. But then you were saying, oh yeah, I'm just boiling them in my kitchen. And I was like, what?
00:12:34
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How are you doing that? But then you were like, you're using food coloring. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that's how I like got I took everything I learned from those two classes and then I kind of combined them. And so I use like Kool-Aid powders and food coloring because I wanted to use like food safe ingredients because also I live with my husband and like, you know, our kitchen is like right next to where he likes to game on his Xbox.
00:13:05
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So I was like, well, also we live in an enclosed space. So I don't really want to be bringing in these toxic powders. So I wanted to use food safe ingredients because our kitchen is like right there.
00:13:19
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And then my husband normally games like right next to the kitchen on his Xbox. So, you know, i don't want to be using like toxic fume chemicals and he's right there and he's trying to live his life and I'm just doing my crazy dye stuff in the kitchen also you know I make other things in the kitchen like bread so you know I don't want to mix toxic dye with flour by accident you know so I chose to go with like an oh like the food safe way.
00:13:52
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Um, but I will say those professional dyes. So we have used those a couple times on the knitting retreat also, or maybe just once, but they are very nice and that they really get the color, like really saturated. Okay.
00:14:06
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So there is an advantage in using those kinds of dyes. So then do you think that like, I'm just like hurling question after question after you. So in your, quote unquote beginner experience with this. um Do you think that you would ever move to trying to make things with the more like, quote unquote professional dyes? Or do you think you'd want to just stick with the food safe stuff because of your setup?
Inspiration and Creativity in Dyeing
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I think I would try to use some of the more professional dyes. actually got a book recently. um that i'm I'm really excited to read. It's called Hand Dyeing Yarn and Fleece by Gail Callahan.
00:14:48
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And yeah, I know. So this book has like so many um like techniques in here. um me pull up like a page or something.
00:15:00
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um But like, look, there's even a page in here. It says testing the pH. Like this stuff is really important. yeah um You're making sure your color is going to stick.
00:15:11
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Um, and so there, there was a bunch of stuff in here about like how to mix your dyes properly. And from what I read already, they're only really toxic in the powder form. Like that's where they're most dangerous and because you could inhale them.
00:15:27
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So once you mix them, they're safer, at least I think yeah probably still shouldn't be like Kool-Aid or anything.
00:15:39
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Yeah, right, right. So, I mean, yeah, maybe I would try someday. um Probably not anytime soon, but someday maybe. All right, very nice. So I think, okay, so i know that for me, personally, I am not interested in creating yarn. um i only want to use it in its final form. So that includes the spinning, the dyeing, the shearing, any of the stuff that comes beforehand. um But I am always like you know interested in hearing about other dyers doing stuff. um
00:16:15
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So I guess like for me, i'm like since I have no interest in really doing it, um would what was it that like made you really want to do it? like but i mean Because I know you did it at the retreat. But for me, i'm like I've done things at retreats and things like that where you do little crafts and everything. But I'm like, OK, this is fun to do in the moment.
00:16:36
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but I don't want to go home and try to do this. like So what made the jump from there to actually do want make these and even try to sell them on Etsy? Yeah. um I don't know. It wass just kind of like, it seemed like a fun thing. And it's like another way to express creativity. You know, like that's one thing I love about knitting and fiber arts is that it's taking yarn, which is basically like nothing, like you can't use it for anything really. And you're turning it into something that you can use.
00:17:07
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And it's like the same concept, I think, in my head of like taking the undyed yarn, which I guess, yeah, you could totally use that. But like you're turning it into something that's like more desirable.
00:17:19
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um And so it was just like, i love the process of that. And... ah Yeah, it was, like, a great way to have some creative expression. And, you know, I came up with, like, a collection of colors that all formed, like, a little story. So it was just, like, a nice project, you know? it was basically, like, ah a whip, a work in progress. Yeah, okay, gotcha.
00:17:40
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So why... What makes it undesirable for you? I'm curious. god Oh, girl, okay. So, one, is the equipment needed? um It's just, it's...
00:17:53
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I'm already not a huge fan of cooking things. Let's just be real. If I could eat out every day, i would. Eating out is so much fun for me. like I don't have to clean up the dishes. i just pay someone else to do it. I know the food is going to come out great. Not to say I can't cook, but to me, I'm like, yarn dyeing is basically cooking. And I'm like, I don't want to do this. So there's already that.
00:18:15
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The second thing is that I'm already sometimes a perfectionist when it comes to like my crochet work, when I'm designing crochet, like there's a lot of work that goes into it and, you know, mistakes. We've talked about that on this um podcast before about like mistakes and what is acceptable.
00:18:31
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And I feel like, I would not have the skills or the patience to get consistency um across like different yarns and how much I want them to come out.
00:18:44
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I'm also so bad at understanding colors and how they're formed. like The yarn dyers that I know, like they can look at like a chart of these varying different dye colors And they can piece together. They're like, okay, I have a color in my mind of what I want to create, which means I need to mix in this one, this one, and this one, and they'll form that color. And i'm like, I don't understand.
00:19:06
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How did you would use this purple, this yellow, and this green, and it came out to this like rich chocolate brown color? And I'm like,
00:19:16
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how did you know that that was what it was going to be? Um, yeah and I'm like, so that's my other problems.
Challenges in Dye Consistency
00:19:22
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I'm like, I have no idea how to even build colors onto each other, like how they work. I just know that they do. Um, and so for me, I'm like, there's just, there are too many variables. Um,
00:19:33
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And it would drive me nuts trying to get them perfect. So always like shout out to any yarn dyer who can get consistency in like different batches. I'm just like, I can't even do it. And I also know that with hand dyeing, even when they're in the same bath, they don't always come out exactly the same, oh especially if they're like a variegated or a speckled or anything like that. i'm like, no, I can't do that. I just can't do that.
00:19:58
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Yeah, ah that's a very fair and valid point. And it's true. ah it is it It was really hard to... Even just like my backdoor way of dyeing yarn, even that was like hard to get consistency. And ah you know you're right. like Some people can just like look at the colors and boom, like they understand color theory so well. yeah And I'm not that.
00:20:28
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I'm not on that level. So then when you did your colorings, did you like, so you chose some pretty like basic primary colors that looked like you were like orange, yellow, blue, yeah things like that. Um, but I do remember you talking about like you had in mind a particular shade.
00:20:45
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I think it was blue that you were trying to really accomplish and you just, you weren't quite getting it the way you wanted. So like what happened with that? Well, the the blue, the biggest issue was the bleeding. Okay. And so once I figured out how, like, the vinegar thing, then I was like, okay, we're good on that.
00:21:03
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um But then also getting the speckles to be dark enough ah to actually show through the dye itself, like, that was another issue. um But basically everything I did was trial and error. It was not like...
00:21:18
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um I mean, some of them it was like, I know exactly what to do, and it, like, transferred well from color to color. But sometimes, like, the color, the same method... didn't work when I had to change colors.
00:21:31
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And so I was like, okay, well now I have to figure out how to get it to work on this color way, the same way as it worked on the other one, but the method has to be different. Yes. So yeah, basically just trial and error. So now what you're describing is one of the reasons I also was like, what? I don't want to do this because there was also like, you could do the exact same method and it's different for each color. And I'm like, wait a minute, but it should be the same. like I shouldn't have to do that.
00:21:59
Speaker
yeah like Well, the temperature outside today and the humidity outside affected my yarn dying inside. And I'm just like, so now I have to take into account the weather? like What kind of like...
00:22:10
Speaker
Too many variables. Like, how do I do that? And in and living in Oklahoma, I'm like, how you can't account for weather. Like, it's just, it's not the same each day. Like, the fact that literally this yesterday was like record high temperatures here. It was like, it was 82, 83 degrees. I was sweating in March. And I'm like, this is not supposed to happen.
00:22:30
Speaker
But literally Monday, this past Monday, less than a week ago, I didn't go to volleyball because it was too cold. Like, it was in the 40 degrees. I was like, a wow in the same week, we had freezing temperatures and 80s. And I was just like, I can't dye yarn in this environment. Like, how does anybody do that?
00:22:49
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Oh, yeah. There are definitely Oklahoma dyers who do do that. And I'm always like, kudos to you for figuring out how to deal with that. Yeah, it it can be definitely like a complicated thing to figure out.
00:23:00
Speaker
But I will also say it could be easy too. There are definitely like easy ways. Like if you are very new to it and you just want to color some yarn, then you can do it in the microwave even. Like I've also done that.
00:23:15
Speaker
um I don't know about the professional dyes. I don't know about those. But at least For like the food safe dyes, like you can put like food coloring or Kool-Aid into water and then put your yarn into it and microwave it um until the color absorbs, until the water is clear.
00:23:35
Speaker
And boom, there you go. So actually, i did some some test strips with the colors that I had difficulty with. I took like little bits of undyed yarn, and then I dipped them into like a a colored concoction, and then I just microwaved it to see how it would actually look in its final form. Okay.
00:23:55
Speaker
And then that kind of influenced how I did the full scans. Okay, so what microwave setting do you use? Because it doesn't have dye yarn or hand dye yarn on it.
00:24:07
Speaker
So do you just like cook it? for like yeah How did you do that? How did you figure that out? Yeah, well, so the setting that I use is the plus 30 seconds. Oh! but it' So just start. It's like, plus 30 seconds, plus 30 seconds. Over and over again. Oh my god.
00:24:27
Speaker
So yeah, I mean, that's that's the easiest way to dye yarn. If you want to just get your toes wet, just get some food coloring, water, get a tray, and put everything in there and then microwave it. Until the color from water. I'm assuming a non-metal tray.
00:24:48
Speaker
Okay. Okay. I, I don't think I need to educate people on how to use a microwave. We live in America. We have to have warning labels on everything. um Otherwise people can sue us. If we say, just get a tray, they buy one of those like temporary, like roasting trays from like Walmart or something. And then they pop it in their microwave and they're like, my house set on fire because of your advice. I just wanted to microwave some yarn.
00:25:13
Speaker
Okay, yes, you should be using like a glass container. How about that? Get a glass tray and then throw everything in there and then microwave it. And then you'll see that the color will go into the yard. Oh my God. Okay, that's great. i'm That actually is something I've never known. like ah i Because I mean, like I've only ever seen it done on hot plates or in ovens or things like that to like exhaust the yarn. um yeah So the fact that you're even saying like you can do any heat. so of Do you think...
00:25:43
Speaker
Do you think you would ever try doing an air fryer hand dye? Is that... Do you think that would be possible? I mean, probably. at the the one retreat ah where we did the Kool-Aid, we didn't have a heat source other than just the fact that we were in Palm Springs.
00:26:03
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So we put all of the yarn outside in um trays outside with lids. And with there, we were using aluminum trays. Not for the microwave. For outdoors. Yep, yep. Because we're outside.
00:26:17
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um And so we just put them outside for a couple hours and the heat of the outdoors and the aluminum trays like keeping the heat in that was enough.
00:26:27
Speaker
So yeah, you basically just need like any heat source. Okay, gotcha. Okay, well then you're gonna let us know how it goes using your air fryer or your pressure cooker or your microwave or all these things to your food safe yarn. ah yes Okay.
Exploring Natural Dyes
00:26:45
Speaker
So i have another question then as we're kind of like getting towards like the end of our episode here. um Do you have, so right now you only have one collection. You just have the candy shop one. Do you have plans for making another collection anytime soon?
00:27:01
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Um, probably not another collection. i did have some ideas for other, ah like, I wanted to try, like, some natural dyes. Um, like, you know, you could use, like, um, turmeric or something, and then you could dye your yarn with that.
00:27:19
Speaker
But then it gets, like, complicated because you've got to make sure all the turmeric is off the yarn. Okay. Um, or, like, there are, like, other methods of, like, I think if you use, like, avocado peels,
00:27:31
Speaker
you can dye your yarn pink. I'm pretty sure that's what, what ends up. It's like a weird one. Pink. ah And that's another thing, like anything natural. I'm like, so you pick out this flower, this yellow, but it dyes it purple. And you're like, what? I don't understand. Yeah.
00:27:48
Speaker
Yeah. I don't understand either, and I've never tried doing natural dyes. I've only ever used like the food-safe ones. But because i am like you know in a place where I don't really want to use the chemical dyes, the only other thing I could think is to you know either add more colors to my initial collection or try a new collection with only natural dyes.
00:28:15
Speaker
but it just seems really complicated. So I haven't tried it yet. But I mean like trial and error, if you want to do it, I mean like that's, you it was complicated. Okay, the way you make it sound, it's like, it wasn't exactly easy when you did the Kool-Aid and the food coloring one either. Like that also required a lot of trial and error. You didn't just go into it knowing. So to me, I feel like the natural dyes wouldn't really be any more. Well, maybe it would still be more, but like not entirely foreign to what you had to do with the food safe ones.
00:28:46
Speaker
And then when you say yeah natural, does that mean not food? Wait, are you talking about like, can natural be not food safe? Well, probably. don't know. Yeah.
00:28:57
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um I think it mostly just means, like, instead of using, like, dyes or, like, processed things, like, you know, the Kool-Aid, um using, like you said, like, flowers or like other, like...
00:29:11
Speaker
Things in nature that would naturally leech die from themselves onto the yard. got it Okay. Like in ah a hot water bath. Got it. Okay. All right then. Well, I mean, you love plants. um So, I mean, not to say you wouldn't be able to find ways of bringing plants into your dying. In fact, I think that would actually be really cool, honestly. So...
00:29:32
Speaker
Yeah. yeah Yeah. But not anytime soon. Yeah. that That's probably not soon just because it's a lot of work. It's a lot of work, especially living in an apartment and trying to do. Oh my God. I don't have any outdoor space to dry the yarn.
00:29:50
Speaker
So if I, I have to like set up fans and like leave it for days and, know, It stinks, you know, like wet yarn. You know that smell of wet yarn? Yes, I love it. But I know how most people would hate it. Like, my husband, he would be like, this is the most disgusting, raunchy smell in our house. And we have a we have cats. So I'm just like... Yeah. But for me, I'm like, I love that smell because I associate it with, Ooh, yarn dying. Like I, it just smells like a yarn dyer studio to me, especially if they use vinegar. Like I love the smell of vinegar.
00:30:22
Speaker
It's weird. Like working at the yarn, like one of the yarn shops, like she used vinegar and it was like an industrial strength vinegar. And I would go back there and I would hop it. Yeah.
00:30:33
Speaker
I'm not going to lie. She was like, was you're so odd. Like, this is so like, this is so bad for you. And I'm like, I don't care. It smells so good. I love the smell of vinegar. it would burn. would just be like, yes. So this is also probably another reason I cannot dye yarn because I will become um addicted.
00:30:53
Speaker
Not to the yarn thing. Yeah. to the plot Like the the ingredients that I'm using. yeah a You'll be using your own supply. It's true. It's true. Yes.
Conclusion and Engagement
00:31:07
Speaker
Okay. Well, huh. Now that I think we've exhausted the conversation about yarn dying, ah i think it's time for for us to wrap this up. Thank you so much, Andrew, for answering all of my questions about your yarn dying journey. um Those of you who have been listening, If you're on YouTube, if you would like, you can feel free to ask Andrew your own questions. He's really good about getting back to a lot of our commenters. So if you want to ask him anything about yarn dyeing or anything like that, feel free to jump into the comments and you know throw your question his way. Yeah, yeah. Bring it on. And like I said, i am far from expert level. I am...
00:31:50
Speaker
intermediate at most, you know? So happy to talk yarn dyeing or really anything else. So um yeah, definitely jump into the comments, get involved in our discussion. And, you know, we we both love chatting with y'all. So...
00:32:05
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um Definitely do that and make sure you come back in two weeks for our next episode. And also definitely make sure that you hit that subscribe button and hit that bell notification so that in case you do for forget in two weeks, you will be reminded that you are getting a new episode from us. In the meantime, hope you have a wonderful day.
00:32:24
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Bye.