Dyeing 5 Different Planned Colorways for a Fade Set (2023 SMSMS Night 5; Pokemon Yarn - Shroodle)

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VIDEO CONTENTS:
[0:00] Introduction
[2:00] The yarn
Presoak overnight. 20 g minis. no acid in presoak
[2:57] The dyes
[3:24] The dyeing plan
[3:45] Dyeing some tonals
2 g of Platinum gray Acid dye (to dye 200 g of yarn a tonal - 1 % DOS)
0.5 g of Spearmint breeze to dye 200 g of yarn (0.25% DOS)
Add 3 T of white vinegar after adding the yarn
Heat until the dyebaths are clear
[6:25] Color 1 - Super fine speckles on Gray
Sharp CA speckles in blue, purple, green, and gray
[9:39] Color 2 - Chunkier Speckles on Gray
Sharp CA speckles in blue, purple, gray, and pink. Chunkier speckles with straight powder in the mint.
[12:26] Close Look at the First Two Colorways
[13:23] Colorway 3
Starting with a mint yarn (100g)
Speckled with Spearmint breeze dry powder + Electric Violet and Caribbean blue. Use the citric acid tornado gray and deep magenta
[14:28] Colorway 4
On second mint colorway
[21:20] Colorway 5
Bare yarn, presoaked but no acid in it yet
[26:52] Steamer basket shuffle
[28:45] Washing the yarn
[30:36] Dyeing sock blanks
[33:10] Dyeing more yarn
240 g yarn each round. layered tonal 0.5% dos tornado gray, then 0.5% DOS blued steel.
Added another 1.2 g tornado gray (1% tornado gray, 0.5% blued steel)
[35:33] The Two Different Sets
[39:38] The finished sock blanks
[42:38] Mini skein sets
[45:17] Conclusions

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