Good morning/afternoon.

Watching Rebecca from Chemknits (on YouTube.)
It's a random episode. She's dyeing sock blank donuts. (She's one of my goto yarn-tube channels to watch.)

She has a background as a science teacher so all her videos are yarn dyeing experiments.

When I dye yarn and fiber... I legit go with Vibes. I have an idea of where I wanna go, but I dye and overdye until I get results. I've tried the 'plan ahead' stuff and it doesn't go well.
#spinning #dyeing #knitting #crochet

I've been poking at Pixelfed, hoping to find a fediverse alternative to Google Photos. I don't think it's really what I need. But I do have some photos there -- here's a cool one: https://pixelfed.social/p/ddrake/816666846511902567

Copying that here: one thing I did not expect about Peru was the unbelievably rich culture of fiber arts. Weaving, spinning, knitting, dyeing, crochet, knitting -- it's EVERYWHERE. Women all over use woven cloth like this to carry things -- you just bundle up your stuff, tie the thing around your shoulders, and go. From groceries to small children, they carry everything.

These aren't just practical and functional, the patterns and colors are simply stunning!

I've been dyeing some new wool using several shades of kool-aid. This is 8 oz of blue-faced Leicester. I doubled the strand of roving, and poured my dye to make a long gradient. Image hidden because it looks like it could be a pan of guts, but it's just wet wool. Very pretty once you know what it is. #spinning #handspinning #handmade #dyeing #Koolaid

New #introduction post!

I'm Alicia and I'm a fibre artist (#dyeing #handspinning #felting #needlefelting #weaving #crochet #embroidery #upcycling #sewing) with interests in #mandala #art #psychedelicart #sacredgeometry #neurographicart and #watercolors.

My family and I run a business called @Fibre2Fabric where we dye all sorts of exotic #fibre #yarn, and #fabric.

I live in the country with my partner and our 6 #cats, 3 #dogs, #snake and #crestedgecko where I enjoy my many interests. (#gardening #plants #herbalism #fungi #music #ukulele #piano #dancing #flowart #reading #writing #tarot #poetry #haiku #cozygames and I'm getting more into #opensource / #linux)

When I say flow art, I mean spinning props like #hulahoop #leviwand #puppyhammer #poi #staff #silkfans #firefans etc.

I love #languagelearning. I studied #German and #Spanish as a kid, took #Japanese in uni, and I'm currently studying #ASL #Cree #Tokipona #Spanish and #Chinese. I also dabble in #French and #Latin sometimes and I'm learning #Greggshorthand to write faster. Cree is my favourite language and Spanish is my second.

I've been cursed since childhood with that lovely trifecta of #heds #pots and #mcas. Healing slowly but surely.

Hope I get to meet even more cool people the algorithms would normally drown out on other social media sites. I love it here!

I dyed a t-shirt for bob using low-water immersion after tying it in little bunches with water-soluble thread. The idea of using the water-soluble thread was to avoid white marks — I wanted it to just be “different” in some way in the tied parts, but not to block the dye completely. (Also I didn’t want to have to untie it all afterwards.)

The low-water immersion worked nicely to split out the constituent red (magenta) and blue (cobalt blue) parts of the dye, giving lots of different purples, and the little tied bunches ended up looking like cells or neurons (according to bob).

Photos here of the tied t-shirt before going in the dye bath, plus a close-up and not-close-up of the results. bob has a photo of him wearing it which no doubt he will post in this thread at some point.

I did some dyeing for the first time since November! My second attempt at a green (#10 in the photo), and my first attempt at an orange (#11).

I’ve also added a photo of this green next to my previous attempt at a green (#9), which shows how much difference it can make to use a different blue in the mix. The blue and yellow are in the same proportions in each batch, but the cerulean blue and cobalt blue give very different results. (#9 looks nicer here than under most lighting conditions — non-overcast daylight suits it, but most of the time it looks kinda ugly.)

And finally a photo of my orange and my latest green along with an extremely failed attempt at a purple (#1) — I like these three together and am now pondering quilting patterns for them.

Wow folks, check out this exhibition of the quilts collected by historian and filmmaker Ken Burns. Extraordinary.

#Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator #Dyeing #Applique #Embroidery #Crafts #HandMade

https://youtu.be/DZDyONVAgV0?si=d2IMiOUia4238-w1

Hand-dyeing post 3 of 3: We still had some skeins left, so I blanched madder chips and dyed cotton in the blanching liquid (left, top); then made a dye bath (left, bottom).
Image 2 shows the difference between blanching liquid (orangey, left) and dye bath (red, right). Image 3 shows a closeup of madder on 4ply - I love this colour!

Dyeing Part 2 of 3: We had some blanks left, so I continued to play at home using natural dyes.
Top left: Gaywool Watercrest overdyed with calendula; middle left: logwood. Bottom Left: I tried to make an indigo vat but was too impatient. I overdyed the 4ply indogo (bottom left) with logwood, interesting reaction.
Right: closeups of logwood on 4ply (top) and logwood (bottom).

Never mind the tangerine - here's some colour to cheer everyone up! Robin and I did some hand-dyeing this weekend; I scoured the cotton in tea and mordanted all blanks. The wool is a self-striping 4ply. Here are the Gaywool results:

I know I've been posting a lot about #yarn, #handspinning, and #dyeing #wool. It's #winter right now.

Rest assured I will turn back to #GardeningMastodon soon! It's almost time to sow #seeds!

And #lambing is coming up mid-March, too. So, I will be talking more about that as it gets closer. #SheepOfMastodon

@asta Hi there, I do! Suggest following bunch of relevant tags. Follow people who post with those tags - you can always unfollow later. Also, once a day I check out all posts on #Knitting and follow anyone new to me there, like you. This is how you curate your feed here. Have fun! Here are a bunch of tags to check out...

#Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator #Crochet #Weaving #Dyeing #Spinning #HandSpinning #Embroidery #Felting #Crafts #HandMade