There is always a yellow fibre blend required for the TdF in commemoration of the Yellow Jersey. I am not buying anything in especially this year but I have nothing true yellow in my vast stash either so I will need to get the dyes out and dye some fibres and then blend the results with others bits from my "ingredients cupboard".
Today is the day for doing this. I also have a couple of other dye jobs I want to try and fit in today too.
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| Middle photo shows the dyed fibre drying. Left hand side: before & after Celluose Fibre followed by the Merino/Suri Alpaca. Right hand side: before & after Mulberry Silk Noil followed by Trilobal Nylon |
I weighed the fibre I intended to dye and made up a dye pot of Greener Shades Dye in Sunshine Yellow at a dye depth of 1%. After all the fibre was soaked in warm water containing a dash of Synthropol I added the fibre to the dye pot. There was a 100g of a white Merino/Suri Alpaca blend that I got from WoW a few years ago and that has really taken the dye well, very bright yellow. 5g of Mulberry Silk Noil that I've had a lot of years and interestingly that hasn't taken the dye as I expected but it is a pretty lemon yellow. I also added 10g of an unknown cellulose or plant based fibre and I didn't really expect this to take much dye in, if any at all, as the dyes are specifically for wool and animal based fibres but it has taken some dye and is another one that has come out a lovely pale lemon. The 5g of brilliant white Trilobal Nylon that I also added to the dye pot sucked in the dye really well and came out the same bright yellow as the Merino/Suri Alpaca. I also tried throwing a small handful of hemp into the dye pot but that was totally unaffected by the dye so I haven't bothered to show that here.
My next dye job of the day is an idea that I had pop in my head whilst on holiday last summer. I had an idea about what to do with the left over North Country Cheviot hand combed nests from the British Breeds project. I want to split it into two and make two matching yarns in reverse colours but dye it in a very light, summery green with maybe natural whites, yellows and greens as complementary textures.
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| Middle photo shows the dyed fibre drying. Left hand side: before & after Trilobal Nylon, Right hand side: before & after North Country Cheviot |
After weighing and soaking the fibre I made up a dye pot of Greener Shades Dye at a dye depth of 0.2% made up of 75% Sunshine Yellow and 25% River Blue. There was a 157g of hand combed North Country Cheviot, 6g of Trilobal Nylon and I also chucked in a couple of other fibres which were already dyed green but not quite the right shade, these were 18g of Merino in shade leaf and 7 of silk noil in shade Chorophyll but these didn't change colour, maybe a tiny bit, but not noticeably different so I haven't included the pictures here.
My final dye job of the day was to over-dye a variety of hot pink fibre that I would never use as it was and I also threw a few undyed bits of fibre into the dye pot as well just because I'm using another different colour. I made up a dye pot of Greener Shades Dye Coral Reef Aqua at a dye depth of 1% and threw all of the soaked fibres in and hoped for the best. Some of the smaller amounts I used a large jar and scooped some of the dye water into it and stood it back in the pot just to keep the fibres from mixing with others.
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| In the first photo you can see a lump of pink bamboo on the right hand side, this didn't take up any dye at all so I will try dying that one again once I have the right dyes. |
The colours of the fibres looked pretty good in the dye pot but when I checked the pH I discovered that I needed to make an adjustment to neutralise it but I think I might have messed it up a bit because it changed the colour of the fibre from evenly dyed to kind of a random patches of different colours. I might not have needed to do anything and I am kind of regretting touching it. I need to get a digital pH reader because I really struggle with those little paper things.
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| Top row: 59g Merino Middle row: 10g Trilobal Nylon Bottom row: 48g Merino - Baubles, Day 8 from Advent Calendar 2022 |
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| Top row: 25g Northern Lights Bliss (Merino) Bottom row: 16 Tussah Silk Raspberry |
The previously undyed fibre is below
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| 4g Trilobal Nylon, 5g Tussah Silk Noil 4g Tussah Silk Noil, 5g Hemp |
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