Cooking up custom colours with protein fibres and synthetic dyes.|Dyeing your own yarn or fibre offers the same satisfaction as making your own homemade soup. You know exactly what goes in it, you can tweak the ingredients to get exactly what you want, you can make endless variations from just a few basic ingredients. Plus, it's fun! And you can do it right in your own kitchen!
Deb Menz knows the process inside out, and she is a master of making colour alchemy attainable for anyone. All you need is some wool, silk, or other protein fibre and a few basic dye powders to mix and match as you please.
In this cheerful session, Deb talks about:
Equipment and safety
Choosing basic dyes that are safe and easy to use
Making stock solutions to keep handy for colour mixing
Simple (really simple!) math for creating repeatable colours if you want to
colour mixing ? the sky's the limit.
After that, it's all fun! Deep-water and low-water dyeing, dip dyeing, resist dyeing, ombres, self-striping yarns, squirting, injecting, dribbling ? and overdyeing if you don't like what you get the first time. Along the way, you will pick up useful hints on colour theory so you can get just the effects you want.
