For anyone thinking of starting a hand-dyed business, this is a really important question. Firstly the work involved in re-skeining becomes huge, and you really don't want to add to your workload. If you wholesale your yarn, most shops don't like you to re-skein; they've educated their customers to be able to 'read' the yarn; meaning customers of hand-dyed yarn can work out what it's going to look like crocheted, woven, or knit up. Another time when you may want to re-skein is when a yarn 'blooms', Becomes much fatter after it's dyed. This will often happen to non-superwash yarn. How much the yarm is bulked or steemed at the mill. You can end up with fat sausage skeins that don't look very appealing. 🌞⭐
I had NO IDEA I had two skeins of the same yarn when I opened them! I do love the colors. I forgot today was the day of the video. When I saw the thumbnail, it didnt' quite sink in, but before you got halfway through the intro, I realized THIS IS MY VIDEO! So cool. And I love to see how you do things and what works. It would be nice to also see some of the things that maybe don't work? Like a tips and tricks I wish I knew as a new dyer? How have some of your tools helped? What is the proper way to hank yarn? I just twist it a bunch, and let it twist together -- is there anymore to it than that?
These are all great questions/ideas, Lindsey!! Isn't it wild how big the transformation is between the skeins? THank you again for being my Lab Partner!!
That was really interesting! I never thought reskeining would make that much difference, but the original skeins really do appeal to me more than the reskeined ones. This is definitely going to change how I look at yarn when shopping.
I prefer the original ones, too. I think reskeined is very similar to seeing how the yarn is caked - and so that is a fun way to see the yarn before you start using it.
I would love to see this done again with little to no white. A rich fuchsia, baby orange, yellow, and a cerulean blue would be amazing together. Those colors are my current obsession ♥
I never thought I’d be team reskein but for the speckled one I am super on board now! That surprised me. I love how you can see better how that would work up. 😱🥰
I typically only include swatches on self striping type videos to show how big the sections are. WIth other types of colorways, the swatch can vary SO MUCH depending on the stitch number, gauge, if it is flat or knit in the round. Some things that may pool in one example won't in others. (I wish I had the capacity to swatch more for videos but I dye too many colorways a year to do this for all of my videos.)
@@RowanstarrI think that swatches make a LOT of sense especially if you re-dye colorways. Since so many of mine are OOAK it would be a lot of effort. But If I dyed dozens in a colorway then I might for sure!
I didn't like the hand painted skein at first. Too little color and too much white. I like to put my stripes next to each other so I get some blending. But that's me. Now, seeing it residing, I really like it! So it can make a difference between sale and no sale. I haven't done much speck long, but I like seeing what you do and how. Future video: have you tried to deconstruct a yarn? I have a yarn I hand dyed in a workshop and I don't remember how I did it. The instructor was reluctant to say and I haven't pressed her. I knit a pair of socks and I lost one. I have extra yarn, but not enough. At first glance, it looks like it may have been speckled, but that wasn't the case. Dripped from squeeze bottles?? If you want to see it, let me know.
This is an interesting concept for sure! The only thing keeping me from trying something like this is that I don't want to encourage people to reverse engineer colorways from other indie dyers. I might try it on one of my own older colorways sometime, though!
Love both but Im def team reskein! I feel like it is so much easier to visualize what I could use the skeins for when they are reskeined bc they have the randomness that would happen if I were to actually use the yarn. While the Originals have a practical reason for them I feel like the way the colors work together changed enough when you reskeined that it would definitely effect what projects I would use them with.
I think that if I dyed larger quantities of colorways more often then I would definitely want to do swatches to show how things work up. (I just dye such tiny batches that swatches would be so hard to do!)
Ooh I loved this one Rebecca - the handpainted example in particular really helped demonstrate one of the ways a repeating yarn could look when more mixed/knit up. I'd love to see more examples of how different types of colour-ways (dip-dyed? sock blanks, as you said? dyed in cakes?) change when re-skeined! It would be much more effort of course, but images of a yarn in its original skein/re-skeined/knit into swatch might be an interesting three-way comparison. Personally I re-skein almost all my yarn, but then I'm not selling it (I'm typically either making optimistic plans to use it 'one day', or desperately handing it off to friends and family who knit 😂 ). I struggle to visualise how blocks of colour in their original layout would look in knitted form without that aid. Strangely although the speckled one gave a really clear idea of how knitting it up would look (more muted, more speckled) that's the kind that I usually *can* picture without re-skeining!
I don't know how much I highlighted it, but in a previous year's chanukah I talked about how reskeining for the minis makes it hard to tell if something is repeating or random. (I had to reskein to make 100 g skeins into 10 g ones)
You’re welcome 😊 I think the yarn caked up would look VERY similar to how it looks reskeined because the colors will blend up in similar ways. The only real difference is we could see some pooling. I'd like to do this without white at some point, too!
Can you either do a video on, or point me to a tutorial on how to reskein the enormous self striping sock yarn base skeins? I can't figure out how to turn the 6 meter circle base yarn into a smaller one that will fit on my swift!
I don't show the entire process here, but I do explain how I do it: czcams.com/video/f0exRiXuJDY/video.html (I use two chairs spread really far apart) I also have some videos on the channel on how to make a PVC pipe niddy noddy and how to use it to wind the yarn onto it.
I was trying to sell some of my hand dyed yarn on Etsy, actually sold, but the buyer returned it, as she changed her mind about the colours. But she asked me to wind it into a cake, so, returned, caked yarns. How can I sell them like that? I hanked them all back up, obviously all the colours changed, and how it looks, ended up selling all of them within 24 hours. 🤣 you couldn’t make it up.
Wow! I think that many customers would prefer reskeined because it is easier to visualize how it would work up. Especially customers who are less familiar with hand dyed yarn. (Not saying this is a bad thing! But I can see how a customer would prefer it.)
Team, " Detest re-signing," but one of my dye techniques requires it. It's only 20 colorways and I do them a couple times a year. I touch dry dye to yarn, from time to time. It's a lot of mask wearing.
This is super true. I do know at least one brand who sold bare yarn at the yardage the yarn would be after the dyeing process to account for that shrinkage, but I have no idea if all mills do something similar.
To reduce my footprint, I reuse the plastic, if I can unroll it after it cools down from steaming, as I unroll it from the yarn, I roll it onto a pvc pipe. And I use white wool felt as my clean up rag, and it gets processed for my wool appliqué quilts
If a yarn is dyed in a repeat and will pool I definitely prefer to see it as it was dyed. I did like seeing an example of it reskeined especially on that speckled yarn. I prefer yarn that doesn’t pool so if I bought something reskeined and I didn’t know it was reskeined I’d be bummed. So id hope the listing would state it’s a repeating colorway if the dyer reskeined
When I do self striping or gradient yarn I try to share a picture of how it was dyed in my listing. There was a chanukah I think where I talked a bit about this how with different colorways you couldn't really tell when reskeined if it was repeating or not.
I'm team "leave it alone", but only because I'm lazy..🤣😂🤣😂 Im surprised on the difference in the speckled...whereas the other looks almost like a commercially dyed yarn after reskeinning....
I'm SUPER surprised by the speckled one! I was expecting it to have less of an impact... but then again I speckled heavily and there were some large splotches. I want to redo this whole thing.
OOOoo I should add it. It is a Crazy Monkey Skein Winder. They're very expensive but it has helped me out a lot in the past. (My row counter is broken, unfortunately. I need to figure out how to fix that.)
I know I am the odd person. I prefer reskeined yarn. Most of my knitting uses more than one color. I find it easier to see how the colors work together after the yarn has been reskeined. Saying that, I don't reskein store bought yarn to find this out. I am not that crazy. I also don't reskein my dyed yarns unless the skein is too messy or too long. Again, not that crazy.
It's a poster that Dharma sells of all of their acid dyes. www.dharmatrading.com/tools/dharma-acid-dye-poster.html This is an awesome hack from Little Bean Loves Yarn czcams.com/channels/XLRmd436KdkdOupGIgOu5Q.html
The fingering weight yarn from this video is still available on Etsy! www.etsy.com/listing/1124172709/speckled-fingering-weight-sock-yarn-7525
The yarn mop is, too!
For anyone thinking of starting a hand-dyed business, this is a really important question. Firstly the work involved in re-skeining becomes huge, and you really don't want to add to your workload. If you wholesale your yarn, most shops don't like you to re-skein; they've educated their customers to be able to 'read' the yarn; meaning customers of hand-dyed yarn can work out what it's going to look like crocheted, woven, or knit up. Another time when you may want to re-skein is when a yarn 'blooms', Becomes much fatter after it's dyed. This will often happen to non-superwash yarn. How much the yarm is bulked or steemed at the mill. You can end up with fat sausage skeins that don't look very appealing. 🌞⭐
I forgot the yarn that doesn't look appealing after dyeing. Especially grippy yarn that sticks to themselves before dyeing.
I had NO IDEA I had two skeins of the same yarn when I opened them! I do love the colors. I forgot today was the day of the video. When I saw the thumbnail, it didnt' quite sink in, but before you got halfway through the intro, I realized THIS IS MY VIDEO!
So cool. And I love to see how you do things and what works. It would be nice to also see some of the things that maybe don't work? Like a tips and tricks I wish I knew as a new dyer? How have some of your tools helped? What is the proper way to hank yarn? I just twist it a bunch, and let it twist together -- is there anymore to it than that?
These are all great questions/ideas, Lindsey!! Isn't it wild how big the transformation is between the skeins? THank you again for being my Lab Partner!!
@@ChemKnitsTutorials Oh man, it truly is. Gives me a better appreciation for what I see when I'm looking at yarn.
That was really interesting! I never thought reskeining would make that much difference, but the original skeins really do appeal to me more than the reskeined ones. This is definitely going to change how I look at yarn when shopping.
I prefer the original ones, too. I think reskeined is very similar to seeing how the yarn is caked - and so that is a fun way to see the yarn before you start using it.
I would love to see this done again with little to no white. A rich fuchsia, baby orange, yellow, and a cerulean blue would be amazing together. Those colors are my current obsession ♥
this sounds lovely!
I never thought I’d be team reskein but for the speckled one I am super on board now! That surprised me. I love how you can see better how that would work up. 😱🥰
The speckled one surprised me a lot, too!
Seeing you wash the striped yarn, it took me back to tube socks in the 70s!
I can see that!!
I love your color selection! It really helps when we can see hand dyed yarns in different angles and forms as you presented in this video.
Thank you so much! I'm so glad it was helpful
It would also be interesting to see a swatch knit so we can see how the colors work
I typically only include swatches on self striping type videos to show how big the sections are. WIth other types of colorways, the swatch can vary SO MUCH depending on the stitch number, gauge, if it is flat or knit in the round. Some things that may pool in one example won't in others.
(I wish I had the capacity to swatch more for videos but I dye too many colorways a year to do this for all of my videos.)
I try to include a swatch on my pictures on Etsy. Hopefully it helps people see how they would look. I usually don't reskein my skeins.
@@RowanstarrI think that swatches make a LOT of sense especially if you re-dye colorways. Since so many of mine are OOAK it would be a lot of effort. But If I dyed dozens in a colorway then I might for sure!
I didn't like the hand painted skein at first. Too little color and too much white. I like to put my stripes next to each other so I get some blending. But that's me. Now, seeing it residing, I really like it! So it can make a difference between sale and no sale.
I haven't done much speck long, but I like seeing what you do and how.
Future video: have you tried to deconstruct a yarn? I have a yarn I hand dyed in a workshop and I don't remember how I did it. The instructor was reluctant to say and I haven't pressed her. I knit a pair of socks and I lost one. I have extra yarn, but not enough. At first glance, it looks like it may have been speckled, but that wasn't the case. Dripped from squeeze bottles?? If you want to see it, let me know.
This is an interesting concept for sure! The only thing keeping me from trying something like this is that I don't want to encourage people to reverse engineer colorways from other indie dyers. I might try it on one of my own older colorways sometime, though!
Love both but Im def team reskein! I feel like it is so much easier to visualize what I could use the skeins for when they are reskeined bc they have the randomness that would happen if I were to actually use the yarn. While the Originals have a practical reason for them I feel like the way the colors work together changed enough when you reskeined that it would definitely effect what projects I would use them with.
I think that if I dyed larger quantities of colorways more often then I would definitely want to do swatches to show how things work up. (I just dye such tiny batches that swatches would be so hard to do!)
Ooh I loved this one Rebecca - the handpainted example in particular really helped demonstrate one of the ways a repeating yarn could look when more mixed/knit up. I'd love to see more examples of how different types of colour-ways (dip-dyed? sock blanks, as you said? dyed in cakes?) change when re-skeined! It would be much more effort of course, but images of a yarn in its original skein/re-skeined/knit into swatch might be an interesting three-way comparison.
Personally I re-skein almost all my yarn, but then I'm not selling it (I'm typically either making optimistic plans to use it 'one day', or desperately handing it off to friends and family who knit 😂 ). I struggle to visualise how blocks of colour in their original layout would look in knitted form without that aid. Strangely although the speckled one gave a really clear idea of how knitting it up would look (more muted, more speckled) that's the kind that I usually *can* picture without re-skeining!
I don't know how much I highlighted it, but in a previous year's chanukah I talked about how reskeining for the minis makes it hard to tell if something is repeating or random. (I had to reskein to make 100 g skeins into 10 g ones)
Thank you, this was very helpful. I would love to see this without white. It would also be helpful to see it caked.
You’re welcome 😊 I think the yarn caked up would look VERY similar to how it looks reskeined because the colors will blend up in similar ways. The only real difference is we could see some pooling.
I'd like to do this without white at some point, too!
@@ChemKnitsTutorials I agree it would be similar but I'm not sure all your viewers know that.....
Can you either do a video on, or point me to a tutorial on how to reskein the enormous self striping sock yarn base skeins? I can't figure out how to turn the 6 meter circle base yarn into a smaller one that will fit on my swift!
I don't show the entire process here, but I do explain how I do it: czcams.com/video/f0exRiXuJDY/video.html (I use two chairs spread really far apart) I also have some videos on the channel on how to make a PVC pipe niddy noddy and how to use it to wind the yarn onto it.
Thanks
I was trying to sell some of my hand dyed yarn on Etsy, actually sold, but the buyer returned it, as she changed her mind about the colours. But she asked me to wind it into a cake, so, returned, caked yarns. How can I sell them like that? I hanked them all back up, obviously all the colours changed, and how it looks, ended up selling all of them within 24 hours. 🤣 you couldn’t make it up.
Wow! I think that many customers would prefer reskeined because it is easier to visualize how it would work up. Especially customers who are less familiar with hand dyed yarn. (Not saying this is a bad thing! But I can see how a customer would prefer it.)
Team, " Detest re-signing," but one of my dye techniques requires it. It's only 20 colorways and I do them a couple times a year. I touch dry dye to yarn, from time to time. It's a lot of mask wearing.
I only reskein when I have to. :D
Yarn shrinks with the dyeing/washing process, some up to 20 yards. The color pattern does change, but I like to sell my yarn with true yardage. Jan
This is super true. I do know at least one brand who sold bare yarn at the yardage the yarn would be after the dyeing process to account for that shrinkage, but I have no idea if all mills do something similar.
To reduce my footprint, I reuse the plastic, if I can unroll it after it cools down from steaming, as I unroll it from the yarn, I roll it onto a pvc pipe. And I use white wool felt as my clean up rag, and it gets processed for my wool appliqué quilts
ROlling it onto a PVC pipe is a great idea!!! I often struggle to open it back up which is frustrating.
If a yarn is dyed in a repeat and will pool I definitely prefer to see it as it was dyed. I did like seeing an example of it reskeined especially on that speckled yarn. I prefer yarn that doesn’t pool so if I bought something reskeined and I didn’t know it was reskeined I’d be bummed. So id hope the listing would state it’s a repeating colorway if the dyer reskeined
When I do self striping or gradient yarn I try to share a picture of how it was dyed in my listing. There was a chanukah I think where I talked a bit about this how with different colorways you couldn't really tell when reskeined if it was repeating or not.
Interesting and very helpful.
Thank you so much!
素敵な色ですね！
So beautiful
Thank you so much!
Wonder if a silicone baking mat could work to put down,Then you can still enjoy the technique?
I'm not sure how much of a seal that would give around the yarn, I've found some silicone wraps but they're not quite big enough for wrapping yarn.
I'm team "leave it alone", but only because I'm lazy..🤣😂🤣😂
Im surprised on the difference in the speckled...whereas the other looks almost like a commercially dyed yarn after reskeinning....
I'm SUPER surprised by the speckled one! I was expecting it to have less of an impact... but then again I speckled heavily and there were some large splotches. I want to redo this whole thing.
Where did you get your winder from. I didn't see it listed in your products used.
Thanks
OOOoo I should add it. It is a Crazy Monkey Skein Winder. They're very expensive but it has helped me out a lot in the past. (My row counter is broken, unfortunately. I need to figure out how to fix that.)
I know I am the odd person. I prefer reskeined yarn. Most of my knitting uses more than one color. I find it easier to see how the colors work together after the yarn has been reskeined.
Saying that, I don't reskein store bought yarn to find this out. I am not that crazy. I also don't reskein my dyed yarns unless the skein is too messy or too long. Again, not that crazy.
Sabrina - that doesn't make you odd! I think a lot of people prefer the look of reskeined yarn. :D
Where did you get your color squares on your dyes?
It's a poster that Dharma sells of all of their acid dyes. www.dharmatrading.com/tools/dharma-acid-dye-poster.html This is an awesome hack from Little Bean Loves Yarn czcams.com/channels/XLRmd436KdkdOupGIgOu5Q.html
@@ChemKnitsTutorials I keep having trouble with my dyes. I make sure to check the label before using them just like back in the lab. 😆