#jar dyeing

[siriscrafts]

It's time to reveal the sun dyed shirt! It's been 22 days since I put it in the jar.

Smells like autum (decayed leaves) and look at that golden yellow! What about the red onion skins inside the shirt?

Sure looks red! But red onion skins are supposed to give green dye, the red goes away when it's rinsed... right?

Right!! It's completely different now! How fun!

Here are some details! I can't quite capture the greenness of the top, it's not quite that dark in natural light.

[small-jar]

People are misscharactering gerry and it is making me upset >:(

People are like "he wouldn't be goth anymore bc he doesn't have the trauma" and I've seen a couple of different takes that people are like gerry wouldn't dress goth or he is actually a metalhead and like No? And people don't know what makes someone goth it seems bc you have to listen to the music as the baseline and boom you can know learn about the history, dress it, and you have to understand the political stuff too(since it came from punk) and normies think that you have to have trauma? To be goth and like that's just factual incorrect. So they are making this thing that tmp gerry is a normal man now and like he can still be goth like bro just dressed that way in tma and just bc he has a support system now doesn't mean he got his goth card taken away

[milkweedman]

Attempt number 3 of pokeberry dyeing in this house. This time I used distilled water instead of tap water like the other two times. But then the dial got bumped (this keeps happening ??? Don't know how to stop it from happening) and the berries started boiling before I noticed. So, this might end up brown again just because of that.

But... this looks a lot closer to the color I got the first time I dyed with pokeberry, at the last place I lived. More salmon pink than anything else. Way too early to tell, but I'm hopeful.

In other news, I think my iron mordant might be ready for a test run soon. And the tannin bath (mostly acorn shells and caps) is looking strong. I've got another batch of acorns to put in the bath so I need to decant it and take the old stuff out, it's just a bit of a pain. Doing all my dyeing stuff on another floor sucks. But still, it's going.

[lexicals]

Me when the wool I'm dyeing actually turns the colour the instructions said it would

[roboticchibitan]

Hohohoho I have put 5 mini skeins in jars with all my neon dyes in the oven 20 min ago and after another 25 min I can turn the oven off and let them cool to touchable temperature and THEN I can dye the last 5 mini skeins in all the colors I haven't tried yet because by complete coincidence I have exactly 5 colors I haven't used yet. All these colors are Jacquard acid dye colorways.

Currently dyeing: vivid violet, blacklight blue. Chartreuse, florescent orange, and florescent yellow (haven't tried this one yet. Very excited to see how it turns out)

Dyeing next: pink, teal, pumpkin, golden yellow, and fire red

[briarpatch-kids]

pls recommend a true beginners first crochet project

I really like washcloths because they're small and you can start with a single crochet stitch and work your way from there. Cotton yarn is pretty cheap too, though it isn't stretchy. If you're struggling too much with cotton, blanket squares are another option that can use any yarn.

This tutorial has good pictures.

What I did to learn each crochet stitch was use wikihow because each step is in gif form. Videos were too fast for me and still images didn't make sense. They have guides for everything from making a chain to more complicated ways of starting a project like Magic Loop.

[weavingforlooms]

Part two of hibiscus dye!!! The jar on the left has some alum (to test out what that does to the fiber/dye) and the jar on the right is just dye, no mordants or fixatives.

I’m doing a method while I cobble together bits of information from different sources. Unfortunately I can’t find any true sources focusing solely on hibiscus dye, and what I can find seems to say that they get incredibly light pink colors (aka barely any pigment) or even blue green ish, rather than my yarn’s vibrant magenta, which has not been my experience at all.

So anyway, I boil my dried flowers in a pot, reduce as much as possible, and then pour the hot dye into the jar with pre-wet yarn (no mordants used). I close the jars tightly so they can boil or steam themselves however it goes, and then I take them outside! I’ve seen this called solar dye, but essentially I put them in a sunny spot and leave them there for 24 hours, overnight and all. Could probably leave them longer but I get impatient and want to see the colors hehehe.

I squeeze out as much liquid as possible, then let them drip dry in my shower with ventilation. Lol, my tub is a little bit pinkish now, I have to say, hibiscus loves to stain. Planning to let them sit for a while before washing them out, maybe with a bit of gentle Soak soap too.

So that’s my process! Apparently hibiscus takes to animal fiber incredibly easily with no mordants needed, which has also been my experience so far too. I did want to experiment a bit with a mordant anyway just to say that I had, and there is a minute difference in the color I can see in the jars, which doesn’t seem to be as deep a color as the non mordant jar. However, it was also from the second dye bath from the same batch of boiled flowers, which could be a weaker dye anyway. This is the alpaca fiber by the way! Excited for some pretty pink alpaca yarn!!!!

[fagmegumi]

generally beginning to realize that most people who thirst for the jjk men are doing so incorrectly and for the wrong reasons like just making up a generic archetype of a really cool hot guy from those het smutty self published amazon novels and pretending theyre the jjk dudes. when you can say anything about gege akutami but he gave us such a diverse & fascinating cast of hot dudes who are losers in such specific and different ways but always so devastatingly that none of them get any hole whatsoever

[coriander-candlesticks]

I realized recently (read: today as I'm writing this) that while I associate certain specific fiber arts with Athena (knitting, weaving, dying, and spinning), I associate crochet specifically with Apollo, though Athena's there too, of course. I think it's because it's more free-flowing: I can freehand something with crochet more easily than I can with knitting, both because I've known it longer and because there are fewer Things To Learn, unlike knitting which has a million different techniques that may seem interchangeable but actually aren't and that all affect the end product in a pretty big way (looking at you decreases & bind-offs). Because I can free-hand crochet more easily, and I grew with it the same way I did with drawing, they have similar vibes. Knitting and weaving, on the other hand, have steeper learning curves imo and are way more structured- and I associate more solid (dare I say rigid) structure with Athena. Embroidery and cross-stitch are kinda in their own floating category, maybe because I do them less and therefore have weaker associations with them over-all. I associate hand-sewing largely with Hestia, though again, Athena is always also there, because I associate it with mending, altering clothing, and making home items (ex the quilted pillowcase I've been mentally turning around in my head for the last few weeks).

Interestingly, I find printmaking specifically to be associated with both Athena and Apollo. It leans into the latter's domain, of course, the same way crochet does Athena's, but the structure you need in order to layer & print properly without hurting yourself, ruining equipment, or fucking up you edition seems reminiscent of Athena. Dyeing, especially making & using natural dyes, feels very much like an Athena thing despite it 1) feeling similar to painting or using inks and 2) being a trial & error process that's honestly pretty free-flowing if you approach it a certain way (especially if you do solar dyeing, which doesn't necessarily need some of the more meticulous processes you need to boil-dye something).

[icewindandboringhorror]

Apparently I can meet my goal of roughly 400,000 words in 6 months if I just somehow write at least 2,200 words a day ghbjh... Almost 2,500 today... huzzah...

[disgruntled-lifeform]

Why is it so hard to locate written directions for jar dyeing wool?

Everything is just listing how to stove top dye and use acid dyes :/

Anyone got a step-by-step reference guide so I can fuck around?

[anotherpapercut]

fellow people who dye their hair a lot: manic panic is having a 30% off sale

[andorerso]

this may be a controversial take but two blonde people simply cannot have chemistry

[viciousewe]

Going through my highschool/college yarn stash like “why the FUCK do I have so much curio cotton???”

[opqrstuv04]

Feeling INTENSELY jealous of my suitemate right now bc her parents are literally helping her look for flights to visit this boy she’s been talking to for a month while I can’t even tell my folks I’ll be crashing at home to see a show because I know it will be a Thing 😑

[selvepnea]

Picking up bg3 again