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[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

What other projects would you like to see me do with these fizzy bath tablets?

[@airenesmiler6624]

I would love to see some cake dyeing with the bath tablets

[@ronii1975]

Maybe dip dye???

[@airenesmiler6624]

Maybe do some sock blanks using the tablets the way you did with the candy hearts? Or even just draw on a sock blank with them.

[@chrystalegiacomotti1984]

It looks like you could use the bath tablets to space dye pastels

[@adriannaer]

I second Airene on cake dyeing!

[@terriko]

This was so neat to see! I was one of the people who asked about bath dye tablets because my kid has decided that baths must be green, so I'm looking for things to do with the leftover red tablets from our current box. Do you think if I tell him we're making murder yarn and let him go nuts with the tablets in lukewarm water I can manage to dye both yarn and kid to a deeper red in one go? 😂

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

LOL! This is a great use for the leftover tablets!

[@bunhelsingslegacy3549]

I'm totally there for more of this. Definitely would be neat to see what happens with double or triple the number of bath tablets!

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

I'm pretty curious about this myself!

[@TarotLadyLissa]

I was the one that suggested bath fizzy tablets! Unless someone else also suggested it. I’m so glad you tried it! Those are the same brand I bought and I used citric acid with great results!

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

YAY!!! THank you so much! Do you feel like they also softened the yarn a bit? It is such an odd sense that I get but I'm not sure if it's real or not.

[@TarotLadyLissa]

@@ChemKnitsTutorials I thought so too! I think they have a lot more bicarbonate than Easter dye, so maybe that’s why? It also requires more acid as a result, at least in my experience. They’re really fun to play around with though. I dyed some braided roving with it as well and it spun up so nicely!

[@kaytiej8311]

This is such a fun experiment. I'm not sure such tablets even exist here in Australia but the idea of food colouring as dye is very interesting.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

I think the bath tablets are more likely to exist internationally than the easter tablets... but I'm not sure.

[@Liz.Green789]

Those are pretty! I can't imagine putting those bath tablets in a tub, though. Still, that was good to try. I look forward to more fizzy bath tablet videos.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

I can't imagine using them in the bath, either! I know how stained my hands get with food coloring.

[@pattigolden1]

I agree, cake dyeing with the bath tablets. I honestly think this brand of egg dye is more vibrant.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

It certainly might be. I probably have some of PAAS brand somewhere still that I could use for a comparison, but I'm not sure that's the best use for the smalll number I have left. I can say that the more "recent" PAAS kits have a lime green vs a teal, and the darker blue is slightly different. I wasn't able to get back to Target to look for any clearance kits so I didn't stock up this year.

[@louisalowry6229]

I love seeing all the results with food colouring - I don’t currently have the space for dedicated dye equipment except for one pot I keep for alum and leaves!! Plus two dogs and two cats that are hard to keep out of the way. Currently exploring cool vat dyeing with food colouring - fun!!

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Food coloring is so much fun!

[@wycohibito]

I would love to see more experiments with the bath bomb.

[@shaysweet6235]

Yes! Do a gradient of one color. One tab, two tabs, three tab etc along a skein

[@wycohibito]

@@shaysweet6235 that's a great idea. Especially with the yellow.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

I'm so glad you are enjoying these! THe next video will use the primary tablets with lower vinegar. These gradient ideas are super super fun!

[@wycohibito]

@@ChemKnitsTutorials I look forward to watching it.

[@dylanlloyd548]

I would love to see the cakes with these, lovely colours xx

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Thanks so much 😊 I plan to do that!

[@lgassin]

Cool! New dye materials! I'll be interested to see anything you decide to do with them.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Thank you! It is always fun to have a new color source

[@angelabengtson6860]

Fun experiments! I've been playing a little with frozen ice cubes of dye stock and that feels like a similar process but with 'normal' dye supplies.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Oh fun!

[@leahgroess5361]

This is such a cool comparison! It's interesting that the bath tablets gave an actual purple rather than blue with pink areas on top like most "purple" food coloring. The vibrant egg skein and more muted bath skein are both so beautiful in their own way that it's impossible to pick a favorite! I'm going to have to keep my eye out for colored bath tablets, a year-round source of food coloring tablets would be pretty good.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

I have another video where I played with just RYB fizzy tablets and noticed that the colors sort of sink to the bottom of hte pan, which was super super odd to me. I'm not sure if there is or isn't breaking there....but maybe it has to do with the Red #33? Red #3 is so finicky that it isn't used in drinks etc because it crashes out of solution. And the other reds are too dark to give a bright purple. I will have to play with this to see more!

[@AmyC-do4eo]

I'd love to see how they work in the cake dying. The bath tablets might not be as pigmented, but I like how the colors came out more pastel and spring like. Plus they're a good alternative here in Australia where Easter egg tablets aren't really a thing, but bath tablets are easy to come by. Thanks for doing this experiment!

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

I owe a lot to the person who suggested. Originally I thought I wouldn't try, but finding a bottle with the ingredients listed (so many amazon listings didn't have that!) and the cost was relatively inexpensive so I wanted to try. I plan to do cake dyeing for sure. I have one more video of these tablets by themselves that will be out soonish.

[@naomihynes1413]

Can you tell me where you have found them in Australia? I can only find them online.

[@mrskrupa1]

Thank you for this! I'm planning to dye yarn with 5 kids this summer! I managed to pick up 3 egg due kits, planning to maybe use kool-aid or something else for the others!

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Have so much fun! I did a yarn dyeing playdate with 4 kids outside once (I was nervous about spills) and it was delightful fun. I didn't film that one since there were other kids involved besides my own.

[@sonjanordahl3158]

I would love to see you do the cake dying with the bath tablets.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

I 100% plan to do this!

[@janetcannonteacher]

What a fun video! How about adding the tablets to the yarn cake (tucking it in under one layer, winding more yarn) as you wind it to see if you can get a more even distribution of color?

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

I absolutely plan to do this with a yarn cake. I find it a bit easier to insert the tablets after winding the cake, but adding them as I wind is an interesting idea.

[@angieanderson6082]

Neat comparison! 🌈

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

THank you!!

[@nancyhughes386]

Super cool!

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Thank you!

[@susandorrington7623]

I would be curious to see how lightfast the bath bombs are. Maybe you could experiment with minis and put one of the dyed ones on a window ledge for a day or two. It's not a dye technique, but it would be interesting to know.

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Some fading with light exposure can happen quickly - I've noticed with Red #3 that it can happen in hours if the yarn is wet, but can take longer if the yarn is dry. Other food coloring dyes take months of light exposure to notice the fading. The one dye I'm unsure about is that Red #33 that I haven't used before - but since I don't know which pigements are in which tablets it would be hard to do a test on specifcially that one. I'm certainly not opposed to doing a light fastness project sometime in the future!

[@LindseyLouCats]

oh, the sacrificial skein in the middle was fantastic! I like the way these turned out! I have been wanting to ask for ages if you've ever considered using AZO tabs from the pharmacy to see how well those might work. I think there are a few different colors among them, but perhaps not. (brands, strengths, etc) I think it would be fantastic to see what would happen if you had a skein unwound and laid out flat, then made a sort of 'cake' by Rolling from one end to the other, adding tablets in the middle as you roll it up. Or even adding tablets between the strands as you wind it with a ball winder (like under a few strands so the next few layers would really hold it in place). I often find the 'add a tablet to a cake; turns out really dark with the Easter tabs, so perhaps the bath tabs would work a ton better with less pigment? Tons of ideas!

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Those probably would work to dye yarn, but I'd be hesitant to use a product like that in a video for a few reasons. But one is proper medicine disposal. I love the idea of winding yarn up without a winder with tablets inside. Although maybe I should just twist the skein and insert them? Hmmm....

[@davidhensley76]

Did somebody suggest that the bath tablets will be used for the SMSMS? 😊

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

Not until this moment.... It is certainly an option for a video!

[@crystalskyeshanddyed8942]

You need to do an experiment with the bath tablets and a cake of yarn

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

100% yes

[@melissaemery8686]

I recently hand dyed a batch of yarn using a beginner kit of Jaquard acid dye. It turned out great but I don’t usually use bright primary colors. I’m thinking of using the same amount of dye stock and mixing it with a tiny bit of black to get a more moody color. Have you done this?

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

This will work! Here are some videos I've done mixing bright colors with black at different ratios: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJKUn4uYerBnl5Y these are dharma colors but you should get similar results with Jacquard, you just might need to adjust the ratios a bit. Another option is to use the color wheel. If you add a little bit of yellow to a purple it will get earthier. A little bit of a green to a red can give you more brick tones, etc. I have a whole playlist on color mixing that I recommend you check out.

[@melissaemery8686]

@@ChemKnitsTutorials oh wow! Thanks, I was just going to search for this.

[@hyerac1]

Not directly dye-related, but since you brought it up, would you share your recipe for colorless bath bombs? 😂

[@ChemKnitsTutorials]

I can do you one better... and share a post I wrote about it many years ago: discover.hubpages.com/art/how-to-make-your-own-bath-bombs-2

[@hyerac1]

omg perfect! Thanks so much!