{"id":7923,"date":"2016-10-18T15:30:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T20:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=7923"},"modified":"2017-02-18T10:15:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T15:15:58","slug":"dyeing-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2016\/10\/dyeing-experiments\/","title":{"rendered":"Dyeing experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve heard about dyeing with koolaid but hadn’t tried it. Then I read Karen’s post <\/a>about speckle dyeing, and figured I’d try it on something small first. I’d recently finished knitting these socks. Very nice, but all white. <\/p>\n

\"white<\/a><\/p>\n

So I read a bunch of online how-tos, then went to the store and got 3 packages of koolaid. Sprinkled it on from a spoon.
\n\"koolaid<\/a><\/p>\n

Wasn’t crazy about how it looked in the pan, but had hopes I’d like them when it was all done. At least one of the sites I read said that it had to sit for 2 days. So in the meantime I read more directions about speckle dyeing yarn and measured out a cotton warp for 3 scarves. Learned my lesson about dyeing outside so am set up in my basement.<\/p>\n

\"speckle<\/a><\/p>\n

Meanwhile I spoke to my dyeing teacher who strongly <\/em>recommended I not<\/em> do it with the dye powder for safety reasons, so I used the eye dropper technique I’d seen here<\/a>. As suggested, I left plenty of white areas.<\/p>\n

\"done<\/a><\/p>\n

Then it’s a 2 day process from here, too. Batching overnight till the next day, then sitting in water for another day. <\/p>\n

So I figured I’d do some immersion dyeing of weft yarns for the speckle-dyed warp. First time I’ve done this, too, except for with Rit dyes. Here are the 3 skeins in their individual dye vats.<\/p>\n

\"immersion<\/a><\/p>\n

They only had to sit in the dye bath for about an hour, than overnight in water. Here they are at the end of that overnight sit. <\/p>\n

\"immersion<\/a><\/p>\n

And an unlovely picture of some really lovely yarns. Very solid colors, lots of depth of color – much more than I’d intended, actually, but I love each of them.<\/p>\n

\"immersion<\/a><\/p>\n

By now I could go back to the socks. Ugh. I didn’t like them at all. Looks like something from a horror movie.<\/p>\n

\"socks<\/a><\/p>\n

So I figured I’d overdye them with the blue koolaid. Even worse! Now they look ugly and dirty!<\/p>\n

\"socks<\/a><\/p>\n

Back online I went. The ‘real’ dyes I have are meant for plant-based fibers (cotton, rayon, silk), not protein based fibers like my wool socks. But I read how to dye wool with these dyes, and figured nothing could make them any uglier. Again into blue, this time real dye and a relatively dark blue.<\/p>\n

\"socks<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s an unlovely picture of beautiful socks (ok, sock-singular)! You can barely see the koolaid splotches, which is just fine with me.<\/p>\n

\"dyed<\/a><\/p>\n

Now back to the speckle dyed warp. Oh no! There are no longer ANY undyed areas. Everything that was white is now pinky-lavender. <\/p>\n

\"speckle<\/a><\/p>\n

Not what I had in mind at all. Sigh. Would I overdye this yarn? After thinking about it for a few days I decided I’d warp it. If I hated it when it went on the loom, I could always take it off dye it then. Or I could cut my losses and just toss it out. Or give it to someone as a prepared warp. So here it is going on the loom.<\/p>\n

\"beaming<\/a><\/p>\n

I don’t hate it anywhere near as much as I did in the skein, so decided I’d try weaving with it. Instead of using my beautiful immersion-dyed skeins, though, I chose a lavender cotton that would almost match the lavender in the warp, hoping it would mute everything out a bit.<\/p>\n

\"weaving<\/a><\/p>\n

And it does. Looks like it’d make a nice baby wrap. Will it make a scarf anyone likes? I can’t tell yet. But I can always choose to overdye it after it’s woven, now, can’t I?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve heard about dyeing with koolaid but hadn’t tried it. Then I read Karen’s post about speckle dyeing, and figured I’d try it on something small first. I’d recently finished knitting these socks. Very nice, but all white. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

So I read a bunch of online how-tos, then went to the store and got […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[530,594,412,227,535,189],"class_list":["post-7923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-cotton","tag-dyeing","tag-hand-painted-yarn","tag-handwoven-scarves","tag-knitting","tag-wool","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7923"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7942,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7923\/revisions\/7942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}