Dye Time

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I'm still not quite brave enough to dye 100g of roving! In this video, I dye 20g of White Welsh Top with the intention of spinning it. This was the last project I dyed that day and thought out the day, I had been rinsing my fingers off in a jug of water. This was a lovely blue-grey colour, so I decided to use that to dye my last 20g of fibre. I squirted on some fluorescent fuchsia, which made a pretty pattern. After setting the dye in a low immersion set up, I decided to scribble on some more fluorescent fuchsia, then steam set in an attempt to save the pattern it made. Once the fibre had cooled, been washed and dried, I was able to spin it.

Fibre reactive dyes can be used on plant based fibre and animal based fibres. Acid dyes can only be used on animal based fibres.

Contents:
[00:00] Introduction and first round of dyeing
[02:37] 10 minutes later I flip the fibre and add colour on the other side
[04:23] 20 minutes later I carefully move the fibre to the steam basket and add some more pink
[05:23] Flipping the fibre and adding even more pink
[06:01] Washing the fibre
[07:22] The finished fibre
[08:27] The spun yarn
[09:47] Thank you so much for watching!

Featured in this tutorial:
Fibre: 20g white Welsh top
Dye: Fluorescent fuchsia acid dye from Dharma and a jug of water that I'd been rinsing my fingers off in.
All equipment (pots/spoons/jars etc) used in this video is dedicated for dyeing.

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