Introduction
Hi There intrepid reader! I hope you have stumbled across this make-shift blog and found what you are looking for.
On this blog I will post about my adventures in dyeing cotton yarn and thread dyeing, perhaps some tie dye fabric stuff too. I am an avid crocheter and can't work much with wool because I am allergic so mostly work with acrylic and cotton. After getting hooked on some of the loveliest doily patterns you have ever seen on Ravelry.com and the Scheepjes brad whirl yarn I decided to start dyeing my own gradient crochet thread as i have not found any that is sold here in North America.
Over the summer of 2020 quarantine I figured now was as good a time as any to take up my first practice runs at perfecting my technique for dyeing gradient crochet cotton thread. With the help of many instructions online and some wonderful users on Ravelry.com I got up and running with my experiments so much that I felt it couldn't be properly documented on Ravelry in my stash pages or on the forums, read I didn't want to bombard everyone with a new post on my journey lol!
So I decided to blog about it, we shall see how well this actually goes but I am eager to share my experiences, not that I claim to be an expert or anything, but I know in my own searches that dyeing crochet cotton thread for crochet has not been very fruitful.
Working with cotton thread or yarn seems to be a pretty crochet exclusive thing and most info on yarn dyeing is focused on wool and protein fibers. I wish I could join in on that train because the yarns that get dyed end up coming out so beautifully and there does seem to be, don't hit me wool dyers, a little more ease about dyeing wool. Only in the sense that the materials are easier to source, you can use mroe natural dyes, food coloring, and the dye tends to get all absorbed during the dye process so you can be pretty certain of when something is done and what color it may come out as.
Since fiber reactive dye does not absorb or exhaust in the dye bath, it reacts with the fiber sometimes the outcome can be unexpected and I imagine that is frustrating for people it was for me anyway. Since Covid-19 has rolled on all year and into the this one I figured I might as well continue with my experiments and then share them.
Hopefully it will be of use to people or at least a way for me to keep track of my experiements. Thanks for stopping by!
