May 12 starts Joji Mystery wrap and decided to dye my own fingering yarn.

Yarn: Altadena MCN fingering

Colors: Ballerina, Desert rose, Strawberry, Silver fox, Charcoal

Last July I discovered BQUEEEN COLLECTION monthly dye box.

I immediately loved the idea and subscribed

I received my first box at the beginning of August.

WHAT'S IN MY BOX:

• 100g of DK yarn, ready to dye 

• 3g of natural dye in a cute little cork bottle

• nitrile...

​I wanted to experiment Fiber Reactive muck colors from Dharma Trading​

from top to bottom

Fall

Red

Fawn

Forest

Gray

Violette

 Dyed in jar with microwave,

25g of MCN fingering yarn,

0.20 g of dye for each color.

 In details

 Colors ready for falls

I like these Muck dyes,

I would nee...

My tiny kitchen is slowly transforming into a dyeing studio, as I have collected a few material for dyeing.

1. Containers

Balls

The large ball is very useful for single skein and microwave heat.

le grand bol est très pratique pour teindre un écheveau au micro onde.

...

Experimenting on single yarn lace 

Base: Malabrigo Lace, Natural

Dyes: Country classics mix of Mountain aqua and charcoal produced a light grey blue

Base: Malabrigo Lace, Pearl

Dyes: Country classics Poppy red, on grey yarn produced a vintage pink

Single yarn takes any d...

Got a few samples of the yarn for the 2 sewater, enough to play around with dye

Now I am experimenting with dye not knowing how the yarn will appear after dyeing

With the light grey yarn

With the off white yarn

Well it is interesting colors are not the same as indicat...

I had fun dyeing with one color but even more when mixing colors and see how it ends up

1. RB lemonade (Kool-aid) and smidgen of Sand Dune (Dharma dye)

2. Berry blasting cherry (Kool-aid) and smidgen of Salmon (Jacquard dye)

3. Smidgen of Twilight grey (Dharma dye) and d...

I took the same yarn I had "dust dye" last week and 

pour a smidgen of the dye in 100 ml of hot water.

Dye was applied on now a 20g mini skeins.

I like the result with Dharma dye

It is not exactly like the picture on the web site 

but overall it is colors I can...

Another day of fun - dyeing yarn

use the same rules as this post 

After multiple try-out, I chose a Superwash DK yarn (Bare from Knit picks).

it is a soft yarn and that takes the dye very well.

I first put the 100g skein in a ball

then I make the ball in 25g skeins (4 ea...