Dyepot Weekly #353 - Dyeing Speckles on Tonal Yarn for Low Contrast or High Contrast Speckles

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VIDEO CONTENTS:
[0:00] Introduction and the speckle colors
Dyes mixed with CA - Pink Orchid, Tangelo, and Golden Poppy
[1:07] Presoaking the yarn
300 g each KnitPicks Swish and Stroll
presoaked in plain tap water for 30+ min
[1:36] Dyeing the Pink Tonal
~30 mL of Pink Orchid Acid Dye (~1% stock solution)
32 cups of water cold with no acid
300 g of Swish DK
+ 8 T white vinegar after the yarn was added
[3:53] Dyeing the yellow tonal
30 mL Brilliant yellow 1% stock (either Jacquard or Dharma)
16 cups cold tap water + 300 g stroll + no acid yet
+ 4 T white vinegar
[5:39] Speckling tips
[6:36] Checking in on the Tonal yarn after 30 min
[7:18] Speckling Pink Dye on a Pink Base
Speckle using the spice jar to get heavy speckles
Wait 5-10 min before flipping the yarn
[12:18] Speckling Three Colors on Yellow
Speckle with Golden Poppy, Pink orchid, and Tangelo
[16:46] Washing the yarn
[18:14] The finished dry yarn and conclusions

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[OfTheMoirai]

These colorways remind me of those chalky hearts you get at Valentines day, with the little sayings like "be mine" on them. :D Love!

[marianne]

Love them both and yellow was never my favourite colour but this is really beautiful. I would love to see another yellow on yellow speckles with maybe a lighter yellow base. Just lovely.

[hitzchicky]

I'm glad you have a speckle video. I wanted to make a suggestion for doing heavy speckles. A blush brush. I gave it a shot recently, and while it doesn't offer a lot of control, it works really well for getting a heavy sprinkling of dye in a way that is very light, as opposed to shaking a container. I got the idea from watching a soap making video where the creator will use a blush brush to apply mica or glitter to the to tops of her bars of soap.

[angieanderson]

These both turned out beautifully! I'm surprised at how much I like the yellow, as that's not a color I usually lean towards. But the pink is just as pretty. 💛💕

[jygood]

I do a number of these tonal/speckles that sell very well. Thanks for sharing 👍🏼

[TheLyndz]

The pink one reminds me of an Easter egg! A whole series of these in minis would be fantastic! I would like to see what happens when you take a dark color and then use a discharge method to make 'reverse' speckles. I am also a HUGE fan of purple and teal, so perhaps a dip dye with pastel teal (not blue, I see you wanting to break violet!) and the other end pastel purple with the opposite color of speckles on top -- or just separate skeins, but that's not as fun :-D

[jodiekingsley]

Love ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ the color

[leahgroess]

I know I'm a bit of a broken record, but what about doing this with a color that breaks? One that breaks when dissolved and could give a complex tonal as well as haloed speckles or something that gives a solid color when dissolved but when speckled would show multiple colors would both be really cool!

[marieclaffey]

I really like both these colorways. The pink is so delicate and the yellow so fun. Thanks for doing this video

[JHookCrochet]

I so love both of the colorways! They feel summery and fun to me, and will also look great together!

[bjchadwick]

Very nice. I like the yellow flameybest.

[Rowanstarr]

Love the yellow. Both are very Spring.

[cherylshook]

Wow! Although they are all beautiful I like the yellow the best. Love love love yellow. It's my bestest color. You are amazing

[Christiane.-G.]

Thank you so much for your wonderful videos! ❤ I really love them and they are so instructive! Also I love speckles on yarn very much. Greetings from the southwest of Germany! 💕

[lgassin]

It *would* be interesting to see how yellow speckles work on a dark base. If they were put on a saturated blue base, would it look like green speckles, etc.?

[cindyfrye]

I know it would take longer, but what would happen if the tonal yarn was dry or almost dry before you added the dye/citric acid to it? I would love to see tonal purple with magenta and a bright blue.

[davidhensley]

What if we mixed a little tan dye powder with yellow dye powder to speckle a yellow base? I think the tan would read as yellow.

[nancymorgan]

To lighten the tone of the yellow, would you just use less dye or are there different shades of yellow dyes?

[ljzjxtt]

Will this work with food coloring based dyed and sprinkles?