Let's dye some yarn with coffee! This video has been a popular request and I decided to brew up some coffee dyed yarn with a bit of a twist. I used some cotton thread to bind up a portion of the yarn to see if I could help the area resist absorbing any color. In this video, I dyed 100g of 75% superwash merino/25% nylon Stroll Fingering weight yarn http://shrsl.com/qmm9 and 100 g of 100% wool Wool of the Andes worsted weight yarn http://shrsl.com/qmm8 (KnitPicks affiliate links).
This video is sponsored by Elizabeth Theresa. Thank you so much for your support!
Sometimes thinks work as expected, other times things don't make a huge difference. I think that this resist binding technique would be a lot cooler with a dye like food coloring or other acid dyes that bind to the yarn quickly, versus something like coffee which binds more slowly.
VIDEO CONTENTS:
[0:00] Introduction and brewing the coffee
[1:00] The yarn, and binding up some of it for resist dyeing
[3:41] Setting up the dyebath
[4:27] Adding the dry yarns to the coffee
[5:58] Adding some more water and turning on the heat. There is NO vinegar in the pot
[7:24] After 20 min
[7:56] t = 40 min. Turn off the heat and let the yarn cool completely in the pot.
[8:48] The cooled dyepot
[9:03] Washing the yarn and removing the resist ties
[13:24] The finished dry yarns
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