I love dyeing wound cakes of yarn for asymmetric colorways. The way these yarn cakes are configured, the center of the cake gets reasonable access to the dyepot for color absorption. What would happen if we hand wound a ball of yarn so that way one way was burried and completely inaccessable in the center? In this video, I will wind 220 yards of KnitPicks Wool of the Andes worsted weight yarn http://shrsl.com/qwgp (Affiliate Link) into a ball and then dye the complete ball of yarn for an asymmetric gradient of color.
Video Contents:
[0:00] Introduction and hand winding the ball of yarn http://shrsl.com/qwgp (KnitPicks Affiliate Link)
[1:54] Mixing the Wilton's food coloring dyes (dyebath has NO vinegar to start)
[3:25] Adding the (dry) yarn ball to the dyebath (still with no vinegar)
[5:38] After 5 min of no vinegar, adding 2 T white vinegar
[6:42] After 10 more minutes
[7:19] After another 10 min (20 total since adding the vinegar) Adding 2 more Tblsp of white vinegar to help the remaining dye exhaust
[8:18] After another 10 min, turning off the heat and letting the yarn cool off in the warm dyepot.
[8:52] Removing the yarn from the pot. Squeezing out some of the excess water.
[10:10] Preparing to unravel
[10:30] Unwinding timelapse
[10:58] The yarn on the niddy noddy
[11:35] Washing the yarn
[12:33] The finished dry yarn
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