Dyepot PS #30 - Fractal Yarn! Gradients and Repeating Colorways

[@chet1051]

Lisa R writing: Absolutely SUPER ♥️!!

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Thank you!!

[@frolic838]

Thanks for showing your calculations! I had read about a lot of this, but seeing you use it really helped me to wrap my mind around it.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

I'm so glad this was helpful! I've done them long hand a few times, but realized that showing it on the spreadsheet to show how number changed could be helpful.

[@christinemurphy8862]

My math brain loves this! My final final paper was on fractal geometry. The college didn’t consider it a thesis but 🤷‍♀️

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Thank you!

[@carolcorcoran9643]

This was awesome! I have to say I followed the math well on the first skein but got lost on the second. I'm not sure if that was because you did it off camera or I got distracted. I will go back and rewatch for sure but absolutely a great video. Thank you rebecca again for all you do for this dyeing video world!

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Thank you! I just remember feeling a bit cross eyed as I edited it, lol!

[@carolcorcoran9643]

@@ChemKnitsTutorials lol you to funny it's all good I'm sure it will make more since when I rewatch

[@cyndymoelter1198]

That was great. I learn something every time I watch you.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Thank you!

[@CJ-ho1eu]

Thank you for sharing. I’m not a fan of red but I do like the gradient of it. Very beautiful.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Thank you so much! I don't use a lot of red myself but something about dyeing with the color is so fun sometimes. I try to not make every video purple and blue, lol.

[@jygood3718]

I use fibonacci numbers to divide skeins to make shawls. I usually start from 5 grams of wool and work my way up from there. That gives the 'strips' approximately the same number of rows when it's make up. I also use 200 gram skeins.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

OOO this would be a fun way to break things up! Although, it would be a lot easier to do this starting with pre-made miniskeins (versus connected.) I need to write this down now.

[@suzannefenton1589]

These came out beautifully. I think the reds should go together.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

It would be fun to blend them together and see where the transitions happen!!

[@karenrobinson921]

Love the yarn you dipped dye, would love to work with it in a project 💜💜💜

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

That skeins is available in my Etsy shop! www.etsy.com/listing/878749357/semi-solid-fingering-weight-sock-yarn :D

[@sharonking7978]

Beautiful yarn! Great job.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Thank you! This ended up being a much longer video than I'd planned lol

[@bethtuten9378]

College algebra was over 20 years ago, but for a single color gradient, exponential might be a better term. If you look at the first gradient from smallest to largest, your 5 yarn groupings easily fit: x x^2 x^3 x^4 x^5 I'm sure there's a mathematical way to express the 2nd gradient, but it's long since left me 😉

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Yes, exponential works for the gradients a bit better than the fractal description (which is why I added in the stripes at the beginning to show a true fractal repeating pattern.) The first one was just divided by 2 each time. The next one was reduced by the same fraction each time as well. (but 3/4 instead of 1/2.)

[@leahgroess5361]

Rebecca: "Anyway, I digress..." Me: "More like DYE-gress amirite!" As for a relevant comment, I love gradient yarns, and I really like the hue of that red, I'm a fan of cooler colors so a pinky-berry red is more my style than a fire-orangey red.

[@jygood3718]

ha ha ha

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

I FREAKIN LOVE THIS! WHY DIDN"T I THINK OF IT? LOL!!! I love this hue a lot, too.

[@SparkyJoon]

I would love to see more in depth math info for this type of dyeing. I was really hoping that your progression was going to be the opposite concentration, and would be especially interested in those calculations. 😊

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

I think it would be fun to dye the opposite progression, too!

[@jodiekingsley5181]

Hi how are youbwe doing good. Been lock down i been dying your cool aid. Yarn. Turn out good. Thank you

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

YAY! I'm so glad it turned out well.

[@jessicaloud5658]

This was very interesting ill have to add it to my list of dying experiments to try.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

YAY! It was a lot of fun to film, less fun to edit but I didn't realize that I had about 2 hours of footage to get through! Lol.

[@AmberBole]

Do you have a video of creating a percent stock solution using food colouring? Was wondering if I could do that with the gel food colours. Thank you!

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Sort of. With food coloring, you can't really measure the dye by weight easily, it is more done by volume (or # of drops.) I did a video where I made a stock solution of violet and then calculated to make different concentrations. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYfMh6R-fKZ9q6M

[@AmberBole]

@@ChemKnitsTutorials thank you :)

[@danielwilliams2249]

Have you ever spun a so-called "fractal yarn" (I know people feel some kind of way about that name) with longer color repeats on one ply and shorter color repeats in the same order on the other ply/plies? I've always thought a sock blank could produce a similar effect in an interesting way.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

I haven't exactly, I don't think, but I would love to at some poin.

[@fritzifrey2908]

Great, really great video! Thank you so much. ✨✨🤩🤩

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

You are so welcome!

[@dominiquemichaud7945]

Cool experiment!

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Thank you 🤗

[@sonyahouk1503]

Have you ever crochet a to look at panel dyed it and frog it and see what you get I know you do sock blanks so what a crochet black panel turn out like a sock blank

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Yes! I've done a couple of crochet blanks. One was in a livestream and another was here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIrZg2lmZb1smtE

[@jacquelynsmith2351]

I have a bunch of mason jars, a bunch of color, an undyed hank, excel, and a math brain... I am totally going to do this. Biggest section the darkest because CHALLENGE!

[@paulagrnsy]

Well, now I understand fractal! I think.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

The first blank is more representative of what I had in mind, but I couldn't bring myself to try to do two colors smaller and smaller stripes for this first test. Next time I'll try that with fingering weight so I have more yardage to work with. :D

[@justpinkcandy]

When you say fractal, my brain goes to what kind? Julia, Mandelbröt, etc. This sounds/looks more like a Fibonacci sequence, even though it's not a true sequence. A true Fibonacci sequence: 1 row 1 row (1+0) 2 rows (1+1) 3 rows (2+1) 5 rows (3+2) 8 rows (5+3) 13 rows (8+5)...you can also return...8, 5, 3 2, 1 and 1. you can also insert a sequence(s) in between (2nd color...or 3rd, etc.). I have made several striped scarves, shawls and blankets using Fibonacci sequences for the stripes - much more aesthetically pleasing (to me) than just 3 rows color A, 3 rows Color B, 3 Rows color C, etc. Meh, LOL

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

These patterns are more exponential than Fibonacci, since I'm multiplying by the same number each time (whether it is 1/2 or 3/4) but at this scale the numbers are very similar. I would have a lot of fun doing some Fibonacci yarn someday.

[@Litknits]

So I am years away from college Calc... So are fractals a subset of fibonacci numbers? Or the other way around... My brain is dividing into its own fractal... 😉

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

No, Fractals are just a repeating pattern that gets smaller and smaller and smaller. "A fractal is a never-ending pattern. Fractals are infinitely complex patterns that are self-similar across different scales. They are created by repeating a simple process over and over in an ongoing feedback loop" SO the stripes are really a better example of a fractal pattern. This is something spinners like to do, start with a long repeat of colors and then make the repeats smaller and smaller.

[@Litknits]

Got it thanks... I read that someone analyzed the paintings of Jackson Pollock and found they were fractals. Fascinating. Thanks for the thought provoking topic.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

@@Litknits my pleasure!

[@danitshmueli5006]

Superb

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Thanks 🤗

[@cheskydivision]

And we thought we would never use it after leaving school.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

I'll do it so you don't have to. ;)

[@AngelaG-lt7my]

I think this technique would be gorgeous on fingering weight knitted into a triangle shawl.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Yes! This is exactly what i was thinking.

[@Pnwmommaof3]

💗💗💗💗

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Thank you!

[@kathleenmcquade31]

Huh?

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

uhoh, I hope this wasn't mega confusing! The main take away - is that this was a technique to make a gradient with unequal sections.

[@kathleenmcquade31]

@@ChemKnitsTutorials ok, thanks Rebecca! I was never any good with math, but get where you were going with it. Measuring for equal parts would be easier, but with unequal parts it's a different creature!