I would love to see a dye color comparison/competition. Onion skins vs. Turmeric, Chili powder vs. Beets, Concord skins vs. Black beans. That would be such an interesting video!!!! (Please please please)

@LastMinuteLaura

5 жыл бұрын

YES YES! I love the idea of a comparison video!

I don't know if anyone has mentioned it in the previous comments. When soaking with alum, if you want a more saturated color, you should rinse the fiber after soaking in alum and before putting it in a dye bath. If you would like a less saturated and bright color, then you can skip the rinse. It seems that in the alum soak, the alum takes up space within the fiber thus not leaving much space for dye to stick to, and so you get less saturated color. Learned it the hard way and wasted my annatto seeds ;/ forgot to rinse and my fiber turned out a meh light orangey color, when it could have been a saturated, deep, red orange.

Good on you! Keep the awesome earthy crafts alive! In Kyoto once I saw a friend's exhibition of high-end kimonos she had made and dyed with all natural, traditional stuff. She used onion skins and got an amazing array of tones of yellow, gold, fawn, sepia, blues, purples, almost pinks - impressive! They sold for $3,000 each...

@jdmosaics

2 жыл бұрын

How did she get purples and blues please

@DianneTrussell

2 жыл бұрын

@@jdmosaics She used onion skins only as far as I know

The colors you achieved from those natural dyes are just beautiful! Your tutorial was done so well that I feel totally confident to try it myself. Plus you're very sweet!

loved how it came out!! the blue is really nice yesss do everything!!!!!! spices, plants! natural all the way!!

@LastMinuteLaura

5 жыл бұрын

Yes! jn&jb I agree! Thanks for watching!

I was absolutely speechless with that first one 😍😍😍 I need to get in on this natural Dyeing trend

FuN 😄ThankS for posting I’m learning so much from your videos.😊

@LastMinuteLaura

Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome! I am glad you liked it

I love when you blended the colors, you should knit them all up and see the patterning and find out if you like how they knit up and then experiment more with The blending or dripping colors to create different variations or variegation of the yarn and see how it looks.

The blue/yellow ones were the best. Such beautiful colors!!!

@LastMinuteLaura

3 жыл бұрын

I love those ones as well :) thanks for the comment!

I love all the colors. Thanks for sharing.

Wow love all the colors , they are 😍 ❤️🧡

What beautiful colors I can’t wait to try natural color dying

Great job, the yarns look beautiful and it's so cool that you did it from such common food items!

I'm so impressed..all the colours are so beautiful...excellent work!!

wow, the grape and onion is lovely

So cool! Love this! Thank you for shopping how you did this. Yes, put on Etsy!

For green I think you can use the white muscenda as when I boiled some of that white leaked flowers I got a brilliant green solution

This was so fun to watch and gets me super excited to experiment on my own!! Thanks!!

@LastMinuteLaura

4 жыл бұрын

Yay! I'm glad to hear that Ellen. Thank you for watching & I do hope you experiment =) 🎄Happy Holidays 🎄

I Love the Second Mixing 😍

@LastMinuteLaura

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Congratulatios! I really liked the result!

Love your knitting pin!

What beautiful colors...great fun to watch. I see some strange things simmering on my stove this winter....THANK YOU...You are delightful!

Omg incredibly beautiful 🤩 I’m speechless 🙂👍🏻♥️🙏🏻 100% MISSONI colors 😍 turmeric stains anything like crazy !

Really enjoyed your video. Thank you! I definitely will be trying some of your techniques!

@LastMinuteLaura

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Esther! I am glad you liked it! If you have Instagram, or email, send me photos of your finished work! I love yarn dye

This is a wonderful video, thank you.. I'm just about to do my first natural eco dyeing and printing so this is wonderful for hints about colours, but also great for the process whenevr I actually dye just for colour. Stunning! :)

I love these yarns. The colors are gorgeous, and your video is great.

@LastMinuteLaura

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! An updated video is in the works for these different colours. They will be more vibrant and wonderful. Check back in 2 weeks or so for that!

Wow I get so inspired by your dye. Really beautiful yarn in the end.

@LastMinuteLaura

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Anna! I am so glad you liked it :)

love the spices idea, turmeric, etc. And... I want to know more about the sweater you are wearing!!! Very pretty, and I'm not a pink lover, but it looks very natural. Looking foward to seeing more of your videos. thank you!!

I totally love the green and wish I had some Concord grapes in my freezer! Thank u so much!

@LastMinuteLaura

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome & thank you for watching!

Just beautiful 😊😊😊😊😊

This video made doing the dishes more enjoyable! 😂Recently we have been saving avocado seeds to grow but never thought about using them as dye! Great video! 👍🏽

@LastMinuteLaura

5 жыл бұрын

Well if you get a few that look like they aren't gonna germinate, sit them in some water for a couple days, then slice them up, and get a dye pot started! Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!

i LOVE the onion skin color.! so gorgeous and toned. nature is crazy lol

@LastMinuteLaura

4 жыл бұрын

I totally agree!

Gorgeous!!

@LastMinuteLaura

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

WAAAUUWWW so cool! Got me really excited for dying my bed sheets with red clay from our terrain.. Going to try it. Thanks for the inspirational video and sharing your own excitement :D Fun to watch

@LastMinuteLaura

4 жыл бұрын

Good luck! I hope it looks awesome! I have seen some red shirts from somewhere with red clay... so I think it should work! Have an awesome day and thanks for commenting :)

@tracysmith7935

Жыл бұрын

Actually the red clay works quite well. My children were playing in a puddle created by an unexpected cloud burst. The mud beneath them was red clay. Their once white u der wear was dyed pinkish-orange and their bright yellow colored cotton T-shirts had streaks and splotches of orange from the red clay too.

Oh wow!!!!! That was super exciting and beautiful outcome. That wool is devine now. I so want to die yarn now!

@LastMinuteLaura

4 жыл бұрын

Do it! and then join our discrod server (link is in every video description) and upload some pictured for the LML gang to see!

Love this video. New to knitting and crochet and I am very curious about how you dye your own yarn. Yes, more videos of this kind. Spices, flowers, coffee, teas ........ Thank you for this video. You did a great job!

@LastMinuteLaura

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Pam! I am so glad you liked the video! More yarn dyeing on the way!!

I love your pin on your black sweater.

@LastMinuteLaura

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Judy! I got it at a church sale in Ottawa

I loooooooooove them

@LastMinuteLaura

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Olivia

Ordered the Ginger 8 Inch Knife Edge scissors off your general link on Amazon...just started watching your videos-the colors are individually simply beautiful-Thank You for sharing the process you use to dye your wool

@LastMinuteLaura

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Lucy! That means a lot to me! I hope you love those scissors (I do), also, thanks for watching the videos :)

Like the blue and gold and blue and green skeins.

Really awesome!!

@LastMinuteLaura

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Wow... I like your experiments.

@LastMinuteLaura

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Sophia! I do too! It's like some magical witchy artsy surprise every time!

What gorgeous colours - I love the yellow and blue mix. I'd love to see what one of these look like knit up - I'm still getting the hang of translating hank variegation into what it would look like knit - and I'm too scared to spend money on beautiful multicoloured yarn if I don't know what it will turn into.

I will have to watch the whole show this afternoon when I'm home:)

@rachelporter6077

5 жыл бұрын

You rock, Kimberanne!

@brendaamaliacaldera3329

5 жыл бұрын

Love them all but my favorite was the last one. Can’t wait to see what you come up with next. Have a great day.

@LastMinuteLaura

5 жыл бұрын

ME TOO!

Beautiful

@LastMinuteLaura

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Wow.. Beautiful!! At first it looked like the grape was well purple.. But wow.. Guess it changes when it dries?

OMGOSH!!!!! I feel a new hobby coming on!!! Is this as easy as she makes this look?

@LastMinuteLaura

4 жыл бұрын

I'm so excited for you! Give it a shot!!!

Love it👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@LastMinuteLaura

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Debbie!

awesome to see, thanks for this :)

@LastMinuteLaura

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I believe it's the avocado skins that make a pink bye 🥑

@LastMinuteLaura

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

I’m not a fan of yellow but boy oh boy! Might dye some up at some stage! Awesome job, well done 👍🏼

@LastMinuteLaura

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching Maureen and thanks for the kind words

Hello, great video. The reason why its browner or rusty shade is from reheating the dye pot. Reheating dye pot again after achieving a pink or red it always turns to brown or rusty burgundy. I’ve noticed this on all my dye batches of avocado dye - after reheating thinking it would intensify the red or pink tone it actually changed the color to brown/rust etc. never happens with onion skin or concord grapes etc only with avocados. Just my 2 cents worth...however those colors you got with the rainbow ombre from natural dyes - my hat off to you! Those aliens look amazing!

@LastMinuteLaura

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I will try again with just ONE time, low and slow, to see if it will brighten the tone! and thank you for the lovely compliment

Dandelion flowers, dandelion roots, dandelion leaves. You will be amazed at the colors of these 3. Use different mordants, tin, aluminum, copper, iron. Use an aluminum pan, tin pan, copper pan, and iron pan. Use each part of the plant in every pot, but separately. As they all make different colors. So divide the mordants into 3 different bathes, per each mordant. Simmer bath for several hours, then dip. Let sit in the bath for several hours. Each mordant makes different colors. Alum, and onion skins are mordants. You won't believe your eyes. Have fun

It look incredible. You could go swimming with all your yarn 🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶 😜🤪 😂 Lol

@LastMinuteLaura

5 жыл бұрын

Oh how I would love to swim in a pool full of yarn. For now, a small bathtub will have to do! lol Thanks for the comment Tresa!

This was great! I'm interested in dyeing yarn and just what the best yarn is to buy for dyeing. I love how your colors came out. Thanks so much.

@LastMinuteLaura

4 жыл бұрын

Hey there Belinda, I used Briggs and Little wool or these skeins, but you could use any protein fibre, meaning anything from an animal (silk, alpaca, wool, Angora, ect) These colours were really beautiful, I loved making them! Thanks for coming by!

@LoveEmpress

4 жыл бұрын

@@LastMinuteLaura Greetings Laura, I've never used wool yarn before. Does the Briggs and Little Regal wool yarn expand a bit in then dyeing process and is their Aran 3 ply Wool suitable for crochet and dyeing as well? I'm preparing to buy some (I didn't see the pricing on their site) and experiment with yarn dyeing. Thank You!

Thanks Laura, would love to see how they knit up .

Absolutely beautiful I’ve a large bag onion skins I’m so excited now to use them

@LastMinuteLaura

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching Catherine!

WoW!

@LastMinuteLaura

2 жыл бұрын

That's what I think every time I take yarn out of a dye bath!

Thank you for this video! I would have tried for the colors in the last skein with the green, but they are all beautiful! The bold blue and yellow, and the warm pink/brown and yellow was such a surprise. I like your "happy accident" attitude. I would love to see more of what color options are available and how to optimize them, and the mixing cause and effect. Also, how well do these kinds of dyes last? Can you do a wash comparison?

@LastMinuteLaura

5 жыл бұрын

Hey JI! So I have since washed all of these skeins a second time, and they are totally wash fast. (like the water was clear when washed, even in tepid water with wool wash) the blue and green one and the yellow pink skeins have been crocheted into different garments that have been washed and worn several times already. If you join our morning live stream at 7:00am EST, I can show and talk about all the hand dyed garments and show you the yarns now!

Oh lovely job, I love each skein. Thank you for taking us on this dyeing journey. Beets sounds like it would be fun, I wonder if flowers would yield their pretty colors as a dye. Do you think blueberries would be similar to the Concord grapes ? How about cherries they stain everything I wonder what they would do on the wool. Can’t wait to see what you do next.

@LastMinuteLaura

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Lisa! I love them all too :D :D I want to try cherries this summer (my parents have cherry trees!)

Nettles make a good sage colour. Spinach will make an amazing green. It does with soup anyway

@LastMinuteLaura

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip! I am sure I have nettles around here!

You can get a really rich green with buckthorn berries and making it more basic. We added Lye water, but you probably could add baking soda.

I'm about to lichen dye some roving, along with avocado, mullein and onion skins. Hoping I can get it to hold without felting.

Been doing some small scale cold vats (yes, they are _that_ small) with black eyed susans, but I've been separating the centers from the petals. The yellow petals obviously give a yellow dye, exceedingly pale on unmordanted wool, a dingy yellow with alum, and a VIBRANT, almost goldenrod with oxalic acid. The centers give colors ranging from a tan, to a dusty rose, and a pale green, but I don't remember what mordants give what color. Somewhere in them is a blue that keeps trying to show up, so I'm working on extracting that through a multi-step process. If dyeing is done with the materials left in the dye bath, the blue shows up as spots. If you wish to try oxalic acid as a mordant, you can usually find it at woodworking stores, labeled as wood bleach. While it is environmentally friendly, and natural (found in rhubarb), it is still toxic, so wear gloves.

I would love to see the comparisons other are asking for. I'm interested in tumeric and see what happens there, and also achiote which you can get in the Hispanic aisle. We use it in Puerto Rican food (we also use tumeric in those dishes) and the stain on my hands is not only annoying :-) but also just beautiful. I would love to see what that looks like on yarn

Laura, first of all, loved the passion, and what's most out of it, we love the education and entertainment that you just imparted - thank you so much for being so close to nature. I'm just eager to know, what are the washing techniques that you will use after using the naturally dyed yarn into the cloths? Because too much bleach or soap might discolor the cloths too early; how can we prevent them from happening?

@LastMinuteLaura

2 жыл бұрын

I actually experienced this struggle first hand! I poured a detergent right onto a sweater and the colour darkened permanently in that spot. So now, I wash them by soaking them in the tub with a small amount of detergent. Then, i put them through a spin cycle in my washing machine, and then lay flat to dry. I would say, the most important thing to do is to make sure the detergent is diluted evenly in water before washing. Using a gentle soap is advised also. :) I hope this helps!

@MayeenulIslam

2 жыл бұрын

@@LastMinuteLaura Thank you so much. Will keep in mind, inshaALLAH. Thank you again. ❤

Beautiful, i wonder if you mixed the onion skin and grape if you would get a green? Oops I see the beautiful green at the end.

@LastMinuteLaura

3 жыл бұрын

it does!!! and the green ends up colourfast! I made a cropped vest pattern with the yarn. It is on my channel if you wanna see the green!

@irenetavano1681

3 жыл бұрын

You can have green also with red onion skin and alum

Laura, to get a pretty green, save purple or deep red flowers in the freezer. When you’ve got a gallon bags’, put them in the dye bath! Can’t remember which mordant I used, but the green wasn’t stable, faded to a dull Tanish-dull-green even this stored in the basement away from the windows. Very pretty green.

Hi, great video. thanks for taking your time to film and share it with us. I am needing to buy some Alum. Where did you buy your small bag? Thanks again

Let us see your lovely sweater!!!

@LastMinuteLaura

Жыл бұрын

I ended up making a few things with this yarn. Come join for a live stream Monday, Wednesday or Friday from 9-12, and I can show them all off!

They all came put gorgeous! Great job. Have you ever tried to use the skin of black cherries 🍒 to get red? If so how did look and did it work?

Very pretty colours :) My faves are the blue and avocado brown ones absolutely love that combo! Makes me wanna do it too but I don't use wool or animal fibres, would this work with bamboo, cotton or banana fibre yarns?

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i wanna squish those skeins too bad lol

@LastMinuteLaura

4 жыл бұрын

haha!

If you want pink, use hibiscus tea

These are some awesome scanes! Lovely green there too! Does grape and onion dyes hold well?

@LastMinuteLaura

Жыл бұрын

the grape dye fades to a more greyish blue after about 2 years, but it seems to gold fast there (I am at like year 4 with) the onion holds like the wool was never white to begin with. It is a golden as the day it was dyed. *Onion skins are magic*

Oh WOW !! those colours are absolutely gorjusssssss. I chanced on your video as I have about 10 balls of pure bleached cotton and have had the crazy idea to dye my own colours - and of course - want to go all natural. I have no idea where to start, I guess maybe by collecting veggie and fruit skins and some flowers and leaves would be a good place 😄😄. Having sleepless nights over how to turn my balls of yarn into hanks (no swiffer and they are very expensive here in South Africa - hoping to advertise and find a second hand one 🤞) but in the meantime I am going to binge watch your videos. We have loads of dark red and bright pink bougainvilia on the farm and I have a few huge hibiscus bushes outside my cottage which are covered in bright pink flowers right now - are they good for dying ? have you done this, and if not would you consider trying ? and have you tried using lillypilly berries (Eugenia tree) - I made jam a little while ago and the juice from the berries stained my dishcloth a beautiful grapey purple colour.

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I like your yarn colors! When I tried dying with avocados my dye was brownish also. I tried an experiment involving pH levels; I don't have pH test strips, so I don't know what my tap water level is. I took out small amounts of dye liquid into two glass jars, and in one I put a "splash" of vinegar - no change. In the other jar I put a "splash" of ammonia and it turned pink, so I put an unknown quantity of ammonia into the dye bath and dyed some wool a nice dusty pink. Maybe that is a way you experiment with your dyes.

@LastMinuteLaura

4 жыл бұрын

I like the idea Penny! I need to get a hold of ammonia. They never seem to have it in stock when I shop for it. Is there a substitute for it that you could reccomend?

@penelope8980

4 жыл бұрын

@@LastMinuteLaura I don't know anything about ammonia, so I googled it and found only references to cleaning with it. You could look up info on natural dyes and how pH influences them.

Incredible. Great experiment. I can definitely do the avocado and onion since easy access here in Puerto Rico. The concord grapes I don't think I can find them. Is the alum in lieu of citric acid or is it the same thing? Loved your video. Will continue to see them. 😀

@LastMinuteLaura

4 жыл бұрын

Alum is different. Carol, you can find it in the pickling section at the grocery store, or buy on amazon online. thanks for watching :) and good luck with your dye experiments!

Have you ever tried garden huckleberries? (Nightshade family). I’ve tried making a jam with them before and it turned super dark, almost metallic purple. But then again, I’ve never dyed yarn. It might turn blue

Hello Laura, it is so interesting what u r doing with these natural paints!!! I have a question though, the paint doesnt come off with the washing? Do u stabilize the color in some way?

@LastMinuteLaura

4 жыл бұрын

thanks for watching & no the paint hasn't come off =)

Could you use orange peel to make orange? Good video a nice step by step

Can I use the alum mordant for cotton yarns? I wanna try it out too. I heard that turmeric makes a bright yellow color for dye.

Thanks for the shout out!! ❤❤

@LastMinuteLaura

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for clicking the link

That's so beautiful! I just wanted to ask alum powder means aluminum sulfate? Coz i haven't seen this in the stores. And after washing the colors still the same? So inspiring ❤

Cool! I really want to try dying my own yarn! Do the colors fade over time with washing?

@LastMinuteLaura

5 жыл бұрын

Hey Dan, with proper care, they shouldn't fade much at all. I am sure, over years they may begin to soften, but I have 2 year old skeins that are still as bright as the day I dyed them! I would recommend going to your local library and checking some of the older books on natural dye. I didn't write it down, but several had the longevity of the natural dye for different ingredients listed. I hope this helps! Laura

So this beautiful colours do last?!

Hiya!Gorgeous colours, never knew about Concord Grape!Do you know how wash fast and light fast it is?

@LastMinuteLaura

Жыл бұрын

Hi! 👋 Technically it is not a light fast dye; however, I have some yarns and fabrics going on 3-4 years that still maintain clear blue color. It may not last forever but def will last like a while. I think it is still WORTH it. Good luck!

Love this... how did you use the alum

@LastMinuteLaura

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

You mentioned adding the correct amount of allum powder for your yarn weight. How do you figure out the proportions for that? I'm gathering my supplies to do these colors! So excited.

@LastMinuteLaura

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching Kieran!

Wow those colours are incredible! Have you done red onion skins? Also I made some shampoo using purple sage and it went DAAAARRK red! Couldn't believe it! So I wonder how that would take as a dye? :) I have also heard that rosemary and stinging nettles can do a wonderful array of yellows to greens :)

@LastMinuteLaura

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds great!

I must say, I'm transfixed by the skein peeping in the left side of the screen starting at 23:56!

Can you do natural linen with this too. I’m doing my dyingin2 week

PLEASE try spices! Beautiful yarn!

@LastMinuteLaura

4 жыл бұрын

Ok thanks!

How colorfast is the concord grape dye and the concord/onion mix?

I am very curious about the colour/light-fastness of the concord grape skin

I've seen videos of people trying to wear or wash things after uaing natural dyes, and things changed color in reacting to sweat or how they were washed. Do these colors gold up?

When you hang them in your bathtub does it stain the bath? Or will it drip clean water? Thank you :)

😳😂For a moment, the yarn soaking in the concord grapes, looked like hamburger!!!🤢🧐😂😂I dyed some yarn in beets yesterday. Never tried avo. 😊😊😊

@LastMinuteLaura

Жыл бұрын

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