Dyeing with Fibre Reactive Dyes and Acid Dyes

[Nada]

I'm wondering how you dye variegated with acid dyes when you have to boil the yarn. Doesn't that make a solid colour? Or do you variegate your yarn first, then boil? Does anyone have any tips?

It's so much easier with kool aid but unfortunately, the colours aren't as nice.

TIA!

Nada :D

[Meredith]

I have not varigated yet with acid, but I don't really see that there would be a difference between it and kool aid as far as painting/dyeing.

I REALLY like acid dyes, though. So true... no guessing about what it will look like when it it done *cooking.*

[Susan_WW]

I know I'm not the dyeing expert around here ;), but here's what I do. I boil the dye in a pot and very carefully hang the yarn from a hanger hooked to a cabinet over the stove, so it just partially hangs in the water.

[twirlgirl]

I steam rather than boil

I use a variety of ways to get the dye into the yarn (squeeze bottles, a pyrex mixing cup with pour spout, yada yada) then lay on a rack in my big stainless oven roaster, put water in the bottom and cook in the oven
cool
rinse

and have never had a problem with fading, bleeding etc

also you can set up ina big roaster, several bowls/mason jars with dye and arrange your hank so that various parts of it soak in the dye "pots". Cover and cook then cool and rinse.

not a clean way of doing it LOL..but it works for me ;)

[littleturtlemama]

I do similar to carla, steam it, but I wrap it in aluminum foil (closed tightly so it's sealed) and put that in the oven :)