Vlogmas Day 02: Overdyeing Red Yarn with Green Dye, Kettle Dyeing and Speckling, Indie Dyer

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Welcome to my very first Vlogmas! I hope you are enjoying this series so far. I'm having a lot of fun creating these different (for me) videos.
Happy Christmas everyone!

In this Vlogmas, I overdye some red yarn with emerald green dye. The yarn was originally dyed in a 1% depth of shade in scarlet fibre reactive dye from Dharma. I started off dip dyeing into emerald green acid dye form DT Craft and Design but ended up kettle dyeing one half and speckling on the other. That's a fun thing about yarn dyeing. you don't have to stick exactly to your original plan!

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 and set up
[03:15] Dipping into the emerald green dye
[04:53] 10 minutes later, taking the yarn out to cool
[05:58] Dyeing an extra skein of yarn
[06:10] Speckling on the yarn
[08:25] The left over yarn
[08:51] Washing the yarn
[10:05] The finished yarn
[12:26] Thank you for watching

Featured in this tutorial:
Yarn: 10g of 75% superwash merino, 25% nylon
Dye: Emerald acid dye from DT Craft and Design
All equipment (pots/spoons/jars etc) used in this video is dedicated for dyeing.

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