Dye Time

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Happy Christmas everyone!

In this Dye Time, I celebrate Christmas with some fun Christmas colours on a new to me fibre: Himalayan nettle. I sprinkled on lime pop, chartreuse and scarlet dyes, added frost from my freezer and let the fibre sit for a few days before washing it. This was a very hairy fibre that tickled my nose when I spun it!

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
[01:25] Sprinkling on the 3 dyes
[04:13] Close up
[04:59] Adding the frost/ice
[06:10] Washing the fibre and floss
[07:12] The finished fibre and floss
[09:49] The fibre spun into yarn

Featured in this tutorial:
Yarn: Approx 13g of Himalayan nettle fibre
Dye: Lime pop, chartreuse and scarlet fibre reactive dyes from Dharma
All equipment (pots/spoons/jars etc) used in this video is dedicated for dyeing.

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