Sunday, October 10, 2010

Natural Yarn Dyeing

Today my mom came over and we tried dyeing a few skeins with some natural dyes. We used beets, onion skins, red cabbage and tea. For mordants we used alum and cream of tarter (except for the tea I used alum and vinegar) They turned out pretty good except I was hoping the red cabbage would have turned blue like the book promised. The onion skins surprised me the most and I think that skein is my favourite.





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  1. SusanOctober 11, 2010 at 1:58 AM

    Interesting stuff. I love the purple from the red cabbage. One would think that beets would give a vibrant red but I see it's more orange than red.

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  2. c o s y k n i t s y November 26, 2010 at 5:41 PM

    Wow, I finally came across these naturally dyed skeins you did and they look great. I'd love to experiment with dyeing yarn too sometime.

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