Kitchen Dyeing Video Download

Description

Kitchen Dyeing: Dye Your Own Yarn with Everyday Ingredients
With Tanis Gray

In this new video workshop sponsored by Lorna’s Laces Hand-Dyed Yarns, create beautifully dyed yarn in your own kitchen. Using familiar, easy to find materials such as coffee, tea, vegetables, and flavored drink packets, you’ll create stunning tonal and variegated colorways. Even if you’ve never dyed yarn before, knitting instructor and yarn expert Tanis Gray will guide you through the materials, set-up, basic safety precautions, and steps you need to produce one-of-a-kind colorways in your own home. Dyeing yarn is a fun weekend activity to do with friends or kids. You’ll stay safe, have fun, and create yarn you’ll be proud to use for knitting and crochet. Create your own unique one-of-a-kind yarns with this 70-minute video.

In this video tutorial you will learn:

• How to prepare your fiber for dyeing with a mordant
• How to mix dyes for a great result
• And the best methods for setting the dye so the color stays true

About Tanis Gray:
Tanis Gray has worked in the creative field since graduating RISD in 2002. Having worked at Vogue Knitting and Martha Stewart, she prefers being tangled up in yarn and knitting whenever possible. In addition to co-hosting Knitting Daily TV, Tanis is the author of Knit Local, Capitol Knits, Knitting Architecture, Cozy Knits, 3 Skeins or Less: Fresh Knitted Accessories, and Wanderlust. She lives with her family outside of Washington, DC. Check out her books and other knitting videos at shop.knittingdaily.com.