Dye Time

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I have a cone of this beautiful mint green alpaca yarn that I just want to experiment with! So I weighed out 50g to play with today. This time I thought I'd try speckling green dye on to the green yarn. I picked out 4 dyes from my collection (1 acid dye and 3 fibre reactive dyes) to speckle on this yarn. I streamed this yarn to set the dye.

Fibre reactive dyes can be used on plant based fibre and animal based fibres. Acid dyes can only be used on animal based fibres.

Contents:
[00:00] Introduction
[00:33] Speckling with mint green
[01:40] Close up
[02:27] Speckling with sea glass
[03:11] Speckling with new emerald green
[03:42] Speckling with sour apple
[04:37] Close up
[06:01] Speckling the other side
[07:03] Another close up
[08:02] Steam setting the yarn
[08:55] Washing the yarn
[10:23]] The finished yarn
[11:21] Thank you so much for watching!

Featured in this tutorial:
Yarn: 50g of 100% alpaca yarn, dyed mint green, 10g of 75% Superwash Merino 25% nylon yarn
Dye: Mint green, new emerald green and sea spray fibre reactive dye from Dharma and sour apple acid dye from Dharma
All equipment (pots/spoons/jars etc) used in this video is dedicated for dyeing.

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