Thursday, October 15, 2009

Walnuts

Walnuts Steeping

About 30 plus walnuts. Steeped over night in about 4 plus pints of hot water from my electric kettle.

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Here it is cooking up in the crockpot. The dye liquor was very dark and did not exhaust at all.
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The fiber in the bottom left was dyed first with peppermint then overdyed with the walnut. It’s hard to see but it has a touch of green.


Dye notes:
  • 30 plus walnuts - poured hot water from the electric kettle about 4 pints
  • poured the dye liquor into the crockpot the next morning and filled it about 1/2 way.
  • Then added the fiber that was soaked overnight with a bit if dish detergent.
  • Raised dye bath to 180 deg F and soaked for 2 hours. Let it cool.
  • Started at about 10am and rinsed and drying at about 7pm
  • There was about 2pints of dye liquor left that still had lots of dye potential left. I have 2 more pints I haven’t even used yet.
  • Done in crockpot.


More Walnut dyed yarn. This is some of my very first sock yarn.

Before:

Sock Saga Yarn

After:

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