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    Preparing for Joji Mystery wrap

    May 8, 2017

    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

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    A day in natural dyeing, playing with BQUEEN Collection box

    September 5, 2016

    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...

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    A day in fall color dyeing

    September 4, 2016

    ​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...

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    My favorite tools for dyeing yarn

    June 12, 2016

     

     

     

     

     

    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.

     

    ...

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    Single yarn dyeing

    April 13, 2016

    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...

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    Dyeing recycled yarn

    March 3, 2016

    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...

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    Fun dyeing . . . going wrong???

    April 15, 2014

    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...

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    2nd bash

    April 13, 2014

     

    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...

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    Dust of dye

    April 11, 2014

    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...

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