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ITEMS USED IN THIS VIDEO (or frequently used in my videos):
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Wool2Dye4 Donegal DK Minis (85% Superwash merino / 15% Nep) - www.wool2dye4.com/DonegalDKMi...
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Dharma Acid Dyes - www.dharmatrading.com/dyes/dh...
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VIDEO CONTENTS:
[0:00] Why do color mixing?
[2:41] Presoaking the yarn
Plain tap water, presoaking 25 - 20 g minis for a couple of hours
[2:48] The Mixing Plan
[5:06] Yarn Dyeing Math
[7:44] Making Stock Solutions
[8:21] Mixing the 25 samples
25 take out containers with 1 cup of plain tap water in each one
Adding 1.25 - 20 mL of each color to each cup (see the math section for recipes)
[10:41] Adding the yarn
no acid in the containers yet
[17:49] Adding acid
wait 15 minutes before add acid.
Add 1 tsp of white vinegar to each container. Stir
Add 1 more tsp (using up the vinegar I have on hand) to the deepest colors.
[19:56] Cool Vat Dyeing - 2 days later
cover the containers and Set the yarn aside for 24-72 hours to let the color absorb to the yarn slowly
After 48 hours, remove the yarn and steam set for 20-30 minutes to make sure the colors are set. With the cool vat we can put these together without color bleeding.
[22:53] Steam Setting the yarn
steam set for 30 minutes in a steamer baseket, 10-15 minis at a time
[24:44] Washing the cooled yarn
[25:58] The finished dry yarn
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[@kaytiej8311]

Really fabulous set! I love this range of green, its so fresh and spring.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

The colors came out SO lovely here.

[@LadyBama]

Greens…my favorite color!💚💚💚💚

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

YAY! I loved green as a kid (I still love it but purple is my favorite now)

[@Pnwmommaof3]

Ohhhh gosh how do you even decide? This is my fav color mixing you’ve done to date! Those neps add the pop you need! I love love love this

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

THank you so much!

[@hitzchicky]

I think if I had to pick ten, I'd pick a corner, those 10 group together really well.

[@sandry3080]

I wanted a corner but it was 9 and not 10 so I struggled

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Soooo well!

[@retroattitudes1]

As I was watching this video entrelac knitting came to mind. All those shades put together in 2" diamonds would be amazing.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

YES YES YES!

[@louisebrown4304]

I'm making a triangulum blanket with all my yarn dying experiments. I'm excited to put this in it as well!

[@elizabethborajkiewicz6100]

This was a GREAT video for beginner dyers wanting color Gradation as well as color blending.. thank you!!!

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

You're very welcome!

[@TOLady1]

I will be trying this with additional combinations! Fascinating.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

YAY! It is so much fun

[@NatalieStarn]

Oh wow! I love love love this method of mixing colors! So helpful ☺️

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Thank you!!!

[@janeanlanglois9443]

just stunning colors. wow

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Thanks so much 😊

[@GoTeddy]

I think I have been waiting for this video. LOVE IT and all those colours.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

THank you!

[@timelessmemories5150]

thanks for all your hard work

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

My pleasure!

[@spicyfibersfarmstead83]

Beautiful colors and as a scientist, I love your intentional techniques.

[@NickUncommon]

Being a chemist helps :) I love precise methods, too.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Thank you so much!! I love doing a mix of planned calculated things and then more by feel. :D

[@davidhensley76]

The 9 in the lower left corner of the square are my favorites. Best dye video ever.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Green green and more green! I want to repeat the that saturated corner and then pick one more color to add to it at some point.

[@knittedkneil7077]

These are my favorite type of videos!!!! Loook how balance those are!!!!!!!! Great job!

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

I have more planned. ;)

[@raccoon93]

I love using shades of blues and greens when dyeing like this, reminds me of a mulberry silk lap I dyed recently in a gradient with almost identical colours. Those mini skeins are so gorgeous! I would love to try this at some point soon.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

It is SO MUCH FUN to play with mixing like this. I hope to do more videos.

[@raccoon93]

@@ChemKnitsTutorials I bet it was a lot of fun! That would be great, I'd love to see more videos like this! You could knit some stunning projects with gradients like that 😍

[@TreeCurtis84]

I needed to see this project laid out because I'm a visual/tactical learner! Thank you so much!! I screenshot the calculation breakdown. Much thanks!

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@michelemcadams6600]

Those came out beautifully. I'm jealous ... lol ... Oh, a red and yellow would be pretty I bet! I think the bottom two sets are the best. I would put the darks together in the middle with the lights on the ends.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

I think I want to do a planned set of the bottom outside edge.

[@teacat55]

I would want the 2nd and 4th grouping sets….this was wonderful and educational…. I want to live in your neighborhood

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Thank you so much!

[@susandorrington7623]

Love these videos! I would take the most saturated row and the most saturated column to make a set of ten skeins. I love the way the colours shift from yellow to blue.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

It was soooo fun to do these shades, especially since it ended up so balanced.

[@kathykujawa6183]

these were the most beautiful shade groups ever!!! i would buy them all!! love love love love love love donegal yarn. i agree- hard to break up this huge set- so much success in each direction of the grid --- great work

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

The set all together is sooooo awesome!

[@kathykujawa6183]

@@ChemKnitsTutorials maybe as a calendar type of thing. or jumbo Hannukah package that takes longer than 8 days to open!!!

[@leahgroess5361]

I love these types of videos! They're extremely useful in terms of figuring out how to get a precise shade, but also the combinations of gradients you can make is fantastic. I liked how you grouped them in sets of five, but picking 10 is a bit trickier. For my personal palette I'd have gone with the bluest corner but I'm a super blue girl!

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Groups of 9 would have been easiest for sure!!

[@danitshmueli5006]

Wow so beautiful

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Thank you so much

[@bjchadwick4261]

This is great. Beautiful. I think I would send the bottom row and the top row.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Thank you so much!

[@blackbean4509]

Loved your bubbly personality & the video you have taught me a lot. I like how you are unapologetically you you have an awesome spirit it comes across in this & your previous videos. I really enjoyed this video, once you set up the test bowls it all made sense to me. Your my favorite fiber podcast @ the moment. Your basically a decent happy good person thank you for doing your video. I’m a knitter, maybe one day because of your content I will dye some yarn.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Thank you so much for this comment! :D I really love what I do and I'm glad when it shows through!!

[@blackbean4509]

You can’t help every video your the same way. Your personality is pleasant & I’m learning about dyeing. It’s quite technical and I’m engrossed in the process especially when you make self stripping skeins.

[@MOLLIMEDIA]

These would make a beautiful blanket!

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Absolutely!

[@agaj3460]

OMG, amazing

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

I love this type of color mixing!

[@erinm_4600]

Top two rows for me!

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

These colors are soooo fun

[@barbarapetronio9419]

No no no... They are brothers and have to stay together! If will be mine, I'll use in zig-zag in go and return. I can't explain better but in this way they go from yellow to blue in a very slow way.... For a shawl! Thanks for this beautiful video. 💙

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

This sounds lovely!!

[@rosemoon9219]

Would love to see a red and blue! I love purple and I know you do too! Also I love the most yellow green very spring feeling!

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Oh I am a purple fan all right!!

[@jygood3718]

What great fun.... Thanks for doing these tests. 👍 There's no way to pick rows or columns, they are all so gorgeous. I think you've outdone yourself with this colour mix. However, I do agree with the 10 you picked. The fade connects - if you get what I mean 🌟🐨🧶

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

I wanted the 10 to work but also feel a bit different from one another. :D

[@jygood3718]

@@ChemKnitsTutorials You did that very well

[@kittylevee4662]

Ooooo‼️ I want to see this in ORANGE‼️🧡 💜💙💚💛🧡❤

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

That would be pretty!

[@martinalejskova6391]

I absolutely love this video, green is my favourite color and this was so helpfull! The only thing I am strugling right now is to find the Brilliant Blue dye. It is not in the company’s offer anymore? What color can I use instead to achieve similar results, please? 🙏

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Jacquard brilliant blue is color #623 here: www.dharmatrading.com/dyes/jacquard-acid-dyes.html It should still be available!

[@emmaallnutt7374]

Thank you Rebecca for your awesome tutorials, they are so inspiring and I have had such great fun doing them at home. I was wondering could you do the same color mixing with any two colors? I was thinking about using Jacquard sun yellow & hot fuchsia or maybe turquoise & hot fuchsia. Thanks again for sharing :D

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

You absolutely could do this with any two colors - even green and orange! I have more of these planned for the future!

[@emmaallnutt7374]

@@ChemKnitsTutorials Thanks you Rebecca, can't wait to see your future project :D

[@CaraDayhoff]

I would go rows

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

It was so hard to decide!

[@tracyirwin103]

Haha your math threw me because your percent sign looks like a 3, but I got it figured out :-) Thanks so much for going through all your math; it really helps! I love your colour mixing videos. You can go to school for dying yarn!!! Sign me up :-) I like how you split them for Katie.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

My handwriting is AWFUL, lol

[@jtarmstrong1234]

Hey, I just labeled containers to do a similar exercise and then I see your video, heh.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

That's awesome!

[@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647]

I'm going to catch up just subbed

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Welcome to the channel and thank you!

[@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647]

@@ChemKnitsTutorials yw

[@shel722]

Doing the math, all the diagonals from top left to bottom right should be the same ratios at different depths of shade. So I believe that you just have 9 different ratios and then multiple DOS on those ratios. The 9 that you pointed out would make a great fade are the 9 different ratios. The "middle" 16 are the DOS off of those. So when you felt like some of the colors were pretty similar, it's because they were. It was the same color at a different DOS.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Maybe! I didn't check the math beyond the middle section. :D

[@theresasatterfield2828]

I am just happy I didn't have to make that decision 🙃 🙂 😅 so many gorgeous combinations 🧶💜

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Thank you!!

[@teresac.m.355]

I would have combined the top two rows to one lovely fade.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

It was so hard to choose!

[@traceyhannwongchong]

I guess you could do this with roving and then spin it up??

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

absolutely!!

[@gudrunmull6877]

Hey Rebecca. I live your Videos, and learn so Mulch, to try ist selv

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Awesome

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Thank yoU!

[@shel722]

When you dye a base that isn't 100% protein fiber, does that technically change the DOS? If you have a 100g skein, but it's 15% cotton neps, does that mean you are really dyeing something more like an 85g skein?

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

This is a great question! So the 15% neps don't take up color, but when you're talking about the depth of shade you're still talking about the total weight. So a 1% DOS on a donegal yarn may look different from a 1% DOS on 100% wool for that reason. BUT I've found that some of the donegal not taking up color mutes the colors a bit, so that is a consideration, too.

[@pattigolden1]

Very pretty.... I would have gone 3&5, but I lean towards darks colors. I'd like to see it on the regular base, The Donegal Tweed is great ) LOVE tweeds), but you're not getting true color...

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

I think the deeper colors are pretty true but you're right, the more pastel color are infulenced by the base

[@yasminpatel231]

So, initially, you let the yarn sit in the dye solution plus acid for two days without heating it, and then you steamed it afterwards to set the dye. Is that correct? Thank you for this video by the way. I wasn't sure whether it was possible to mix different dyes to create a completely new colour, but you've just demonstrated how to do it.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

That's right!

[@jessicabey275]

could this math work for fabric as well?

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Sure! If you're looking at the weight of fabric to the weight of dye it should work.

[@searcher4169]

Why do they have to be steam set when they sat outside in the sun for two days. Shouldn't having them sit in the sun set them.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

The sun could be enough for that length of time. I like to do a final steam set because some pigments really do need a higher temperature to properly set. The final steam is so fast since I can do most of the samples all to gether that it just gives me some reassurance.