This video is sponsored by Alanna Wilcox's Color Alchemy Masterclass www.alannawilcox.com/color-alchemy-course-info

@julietpage4322

Жыл бұрын

I’ve taken several of Alanna’s online classes (not the Color Alchemy though). They were all fabulous and great fun! She’s a wonderful and fabulously organized teacher! 💖

literally was dreaming of making a chunky brown-tone rainbow sweater YESTERDAY and here you are the very next day showing me exactly how to create those colors!!! Amazing!

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

Well I must have read your mind!

Loved seeing the brown experiments, and would like to watch more, and on different bases.

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

Oh yay!

😍 😍 😍 😍 😍 Gotta love when content creators already know what viewers want

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

I have needed to do this one for FAR too long.

This reminds me of a beginner art class I took in college. I hadn't taken an art class since I was in 4th or 5th grade. There was brown paint that I kept seeing green and yellow paint in. I ended up telling the professor and her response was "of course, don't you remember your color wheel?" I most certainly did not remember my color wheel.

@ChemKnitsTutorials

5 ай бұрын

Color mixing is so much fun. Doing a paint night really helped me understand a bit better as we would take a red and add some green to it or something andsee how it would shift the colors.

All of these colors are gorgeous!

I feel like I want 3, 4, 5, and 9 on a self-striping sock yarn:) Thank you for doing this. It's so fun to see what you can do with just a few colors.

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

I'm amazed by the richness and the depth I got, even if a lot of them aren't quite "brown."

What a beautiful earthy palette.

@ChemKnitsTutorials

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! I love how these turned out.

Thank you for making this video and introducing us to Alanna Wilcox! Very helpful.

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

Alanna is incredible! It was amazing working with her while planning out the purple color matching video last year.

I learnt basic colour mixing from Bob Ross and will still mix a brown from primaries by first mixing a red and a green to resemble alizarin crimson and sap green. Orange and black is much simpler. You have mixed a lovely range of muted tones and I'd love to see you revisit this colour experiment to tweak it further.

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

I'd love to play with this one further! I never know how fun it is to watch when I'm sharing so many recipes etc, but I loved seeing the colors together

What a fantastic set of mini skeins to use together in a project 😍

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

They look SO good together. I adore how they turned out.

@airenesmiler6624

Жыл бұрын

They are gorgeous!

Love. Love, love all these colors!!! Definitely will be trying these mixes!!!

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

YAY!

So pretty! Those would make a gorgeous striped something!!

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

Or woven? Sooo pretty.

Another fantastic tutorial. Thanks, Rebecca. 🐨🦘👍👍

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@jygood3718

Жыл бұрын

You're very welcome@@ChemKnitsTutorials

Great experiment!!!!!!!

Lovely. Great experiment. Some stunning earth tones as a result !

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Thisis just whatI needed, thanks!

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

YAY!

Definitely more videos like this one. It was very helpful

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Taupe. You made taupe, with the grey leaning. I love taupe!!!!!

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

I always forget taupe! lol.

that full palette is just a gorgeous autumn

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

I don't think I could have planned a better palette if I had tried designing it from the start.

Oh man, that final yarn is my jam. I love an olive green/brown colorway. chef's kiss.

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Oh that is a perfect fall pallet, they would make a beautiful shawl !!

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

I think that as a woven fabric it would be AMAZING

Thank you for this video Professor Brown. I took lots of notes. I would love to see the dyes on larger skeins to see how the smaller amounts of dye translate to larger amounts of dye.

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Randi!

All of these are gorgeous, and would make a fantastic scarf or similar all worked up together. On the minis, the breaking is really stunning and I think would give any final project a really nice overall shading.

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

I agree that it is lovely in the minis, but if the goal is to get a tonal brown, then the breaking may not be desirable. I'll have to dive a little deeper!

@airenesmiler6624

Жыл бұрын

@@ChemKnitsTutorials Would it help to use the same formula but dye one colour at a time? I know you've dyed that way before.

Thankyou!! I am a weaver and dyer as my mom was also..yr videos r so helpful! I usually use acid dyes and procion mx, and I am fortunate to have 2 sample books with real yarn attached, that my mom acquired at a workshop 25 or 30 years ago! It lists the 3 colors at top and then the strengths for each one...5 percent, 1 percent, up to 4 percent. I call it my Bible! Anyway yr Rit videos r helpful when I want to quick dye! Thx!!!

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad I you think my videos are helfpul, Karin!

The masterclass looks amazing (so is the price). Guess I will have to continue to muddle through on my own until I can afford it, I win the lottery, or the price comes down. Loved the video on brown though

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

The masterclass is expensive, but you do get many hours of live instruction. It can be a business expense someday if that helps!

Love this video! You created gorgeous colors! I would love it if you revisited the large skein to tweak it.

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I love these experiments - I learn so much! I would love to see you experiment with Glauber's salt too. I have never worked with it so it would be really interesting to see how these same colours would turn out if Glauber's salt was in the mix too : )

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

I used it once on non-superwash yarn and I didn't know if it helped... but I really should try it on a recipe I know breaks like one of these.

Yes yes yasssssssssss

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

These colors make me so happy!

You can use Monarch from Dharma for the yellow and it will go much more brown. I think it's yellow 199c.

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

I don't know if I"ve used monarch yet, or at all. I'm trying to think if I have it - I'll have to go look. For this project I was trying to stick within the limited palette I recommend if I suggest someone only purchase a few colors.

This is so funny to me because I used bright pink and caribean blue on the orange yarn I dyed yesterday and posted in the Facebook group. I did get some brown where the overlaps were. I was expecting more but went heavier with the Carribean blue and that countered out a bunch. I love the playing of colour mixing, it reminds me of highschool when I used to do silkscreening in art.

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

I think I saw that post and smiled thinking that this one was coming soon! :D

@airenesmiler6624

Жыл бұрын

@@ChemKnitsTutorials Strange coindences in life, and fun.

Now that you know the ratios, it would interesting to see you try this by mixing the dry dye powders together first (like how you made your muk color), to see if that makes any difference, especially in regard to the breaking.

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

This is an interesting idea. I don't think that this would change the breaking much, though. Whether the dyes are mixted together dry or once dissolved the chemistry itself would be the same. The one thing that could be a difference, however, is the ability to measure out the different ratios, if that makes sense.

@AndiNewtonian

Жыл бұрын

@@ChemKnitsTutorials Yeah, on the one hand, I was thinking the same. But on the other hand, non-primary dyes are a mix of different dyes, so... 🤷‍♀

This wasn't on the top of my list when I got on this morning. I had to go searching for it. How am I supposed to start my Tuesday workday? KZread, do better!

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

Commenting and liking the video hopefully will help! ;) I hope it helps your Tuesday get better!

It seems to me the biggest issue here is the color breaking. Typically I am all about breaking, but when the goal is an actual mixture of the colors, breaking is your enemy. When lined up stretched out 1-10, I actually thought 8 (which you nixed for being too green) was the most neutral (it could be the camera and distance made the broken areas blend together to seem more brown than it did close up), which is interesting because when you did the (I think 7) full skeins they ended up looking like 8. This is definitely something you should revisit, whether it's using different primaries to see if you can find a combination that doesn't break so drastically, or honing in on a combination of these 3-4 that gives an undeniable browny-brown.

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

The breaking is a big problem, and this could be where glauber's salt may make a difference for getting even color. If it can slow down the rate that colors bind then we might have a chance. Of course... maybe I'd need to not use my tap water as well... but then that is honestly too much of a pain for me. I think that I could get closer to soemthing that doesn't break using the black mixtures, or at least something that is a bit more consistent.

@jirup

Жыл бұрын

@@ChemKnitsTutorials Have you thought of raising you tap water pH to neutral? Less of a hassle than replacing your water source completely. Granted, I don't know what the effect the pH up would have on the dyes. Chemistry was my weakest science subject.

I'm curious what would happen if you dyed each primary color one at a time, in layers. I'm guessing it wont blend any better, but it might be a fascinating result.

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

It would be STUNNING. I haven't done this with a brown mixture yet, but this is an example of a layered tonal: kzread.info/dash/bejne/oHp1s5KtirGxpNY.html

@13MoonsOverMayhem

Жыл бұрын

@@ChemKnitsTutorials Wow! Thanks for that link, that layered teal did come out stunning! I can kind of picture what a brown dyed that way would be like, now. Now I have a ton of ideas, lol. I've done over dyeing and glazing before, but not in this way, exactly. The world of dyeing continues to fascinate me.

could u do one mixing grey from primaries , grey just eludes me

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

Oh man, I don't think I've gotten close to gray. Maybe some of these would get a little close... but anything that looked grayish in the cups turned more green after.

@MariaShelleyCraft

Жыл бұрын

A warm yellow/orange and cool deep blue makes a beautiful grey. I'm an artist and it's common to mix dark grey's instead of purchasing black paint for better color depth :) the type of color mixing she's doing in the video here is very challenging. When you only use CMY, the tiniest change in color (adding a drop of blue or whatever) will shift color significantly. I would give this a shot with diluted base dyes so the changes aren't too dramatic between tweaks. I'm going to give it a shot today 😊

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

@@MariaShelleyCraft This is a SUPER helpful suggestion! I feel like I've ended up with things that feel gray by accident, but ultimately a "true gray" feels like a very narrow color range to me - versus it being a blue or a purple very quickly.

@MariaShelleyCraft

Жыл бұрын

@@ChemKnitsTutorialshm this might be because blue pigments are highly staining (it's called a "bully" in watercolor!). Most blues I add when mixing, I only add small amounts of everything turns blue really quickly lol. A truly neutral grey is a challenge overall, it's not just you. The orange and blue should help tho! And you want to use one warm tone and one cool tone so they neutralize each other.

This happened to me as a new dyer. Used 10 GM skein,; got the right shade. Scaled up, dyed the warp. Disaster! looking for cream got drab green. Added red. Looked worse.

@ChemKnitsTutorials

5 ай бұрын

Oh no!

@debbief7276

4 ай бұрын

@@ChemKnitsTutorials looks like drab pink

stop smiling in all your videos broski

Really love this muted color palette and learning how you recorded and scaled everything. Thanks! 🤎 I’m curious why the bigger skein didn’t really match though! Shouldn’t it have? When that happens to me I figure I just screwed something up. What else coils be at play?

@ChemKnitsTutorials

Жыл бұрын

The most likely answer is that I made some errors with measuring the colors for the miniskein - Maybe I used slightly less blue so that when I scaled it up and measured a larger volume of the blue it amplified a small difference. (or maybe there was slightly less yellow etc.) That would be my best guess. An error of 0.1 mL would make a larger impact when I'm measuring out 3 mL than it would when measuring out 30 mL if that makes sense.