Can We Overdye the Neps in a Donegal Yarn with Rit DyeMore Synthetic? (Dyepot Weekly

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[@airenesmiler6624]

The yarn with the neps would be so cool knit up using Woollywormheads short row techniques.

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ooooo!

[@bunhelsingslegacy3549]

I'm not much for pinks or salmons most of the time (except hot pink, IDK why) but that skein turned out really nice. It reminds me of a really beautiful ombre icing job on a fancy cake! Especially once it was twisted up around the tongs, made me think of icing rosettes! Dangit now I want cake. I used (I think it was) a package of purple Tintex on some grey mostly acryclic wool blend but it did do something, it's a bit subtle though. My first experience with trying to cake-dye! and maybe when it gets a bit chillier I'll figure out what I'm going to crochet with it. I figured it was worth a try as I've had Tintex and Dylon both do well and badly with synthetic fabrics and grey's a bit boring for me. I'm thinking maybe a blanket wrap, essentially a rectangular blanket with a slit down the centre so I can wrap it around myself when I'm cold. We used to have a woven poncho made like that and it was a lot more versatile than the ones with just the slit in the centre where both the ends were connected.

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I was very happy with the final colors

[@MrandMrsZimmer]

Hey been binging your show for a year or two now, love you, you’re a wealth of knowledge. Was wondering if you’d be interested in doing a segment at the end of your videos where you show an old dye and who ever purchased its finished object they send you a picture of. I’m often so curious to what these end up as and when i first started watching couldn’t imagine what they would look like knit up. Could be a thirty second thing with a link to to old video and a picture. Might be a fun way to help promote your Etsy too. Keep dyeing girl thank you!

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This is something I would love to do. I have photos from people sometimes and I often forget to share them - or I lose track of them because they cross my social media feed too fast. I am working on a few "dyeing to knit" videos where I work with my own hand dyed yarn, but I know that's not the same thing.

[@sandry3080]

Woohoo!

[@sidmelucci3675]

When the RIT dye instructions called for adding soap, I wondered (there goes Sid, wondering again!) if it's to increase the pH, in which case adding acid might be counterproductive. Then adding the soap-or baking soda or whatever-might reduce the absorption by the _wool_ but increase it on the neps. Maybe?

[@ChronicallyKatie]

My bottle of regular rit dye (for non-synthetics) also calls for adding soap! No idea what the purpose is, I was wondering the same thing

[@airenesmiler6624]

@@ChronicallyKatie Soap is a surfactant so it might be just to allow the spread more?

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If I were to use a pH neutral soap then that might not change the pH. It is likely to help with even-ness of the color absorption?

[@locomademoiselle]

Ooh I absolutely love the salmon pink dip dye ❤ shame the neps didn't dye, but good experiment anyways! 😊

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Thank you! 😊 Honestly I'm a little glad that the neps didn't dye, since there wouldn't be a way to dye ONLY the neps and not the rest of the yarn. I am glad that I tried, though!