Speckling Linen/Cotton Yarn with Fiber Reactive Ice Dyes - Will they break? (Dyepot PS 86)

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KnitPicks Bare Lindy Chain (70% Linen, 30% pima cotton) - https://tidd.ly/44CjZME *
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VIDEO CONTENTS:
[0:00] Introduction
[1:03] Soda ash soak
1 cup in 1 gallon of water. so I used 1/4 cup soda ash in 4 cups of hot tap water
add the 300 g yarn, squish around, and then wait 15 min or so
[3:48] Preparing for speckling
[4:33] Speckling with Dragon's Heart
steam for 30 min
[7:38] Yarn mop
[8:23] Speckling with Alchemist
[11:33] Swapping the yarn in the steamer basket
[12:28] yarn mop clean up
[14:03] washing the yarn
[16:08] ice dyeing cotton shirts
[18:56] the finished dry yarn and conclusions

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