knitting & dyeing a tiny wool scarf with onion skins 🐑 🧅

hello everyone! this is a video of my experience knitting a tiny wool scarf and then dyeing it with onion skins. This was my first time dyeing wool (or anything actually) so it was kind of an experiment. I got all the information about dyeing with onion skins from this very helpful blog:
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A few notes
- I used 100% wool (50g/100m) and 4.5mm needles
- The scarf is knit in garter stitch
- I soaked the scarf in the washing powder water (scouring) for about 2 hours and then rinsed
- I used alum powder as a mordant, the blog post says to use cream of tartar as well for wool but I couldn't find any in my local stores
- I brought the alum water to a gentle simmer then turned off the heat and soaked the scarf for about 1.5 hours and wrung but didn't rinse before dyeing
- I simmered the onion skins for about 40 minutes
- After gentling simmering for about 30-40 minutes, I soaked the scarf in the dye bath over night
Let me know what you think! I am very happy with the colour, it's beautiful and bright but looks natural and earthy too. I'm excited to try some more natural dyeing in the future (:
Music:
Just Normal, Frumhere / red orchard / courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com

[@samhasi2287]

ah it turned out so well! these types of videos are just the best to watch man :)

[@mena_makes]

thanks sam, glad you liked it (: x

[@sydneyshinshi]

I now know what 20 grams of onion skins look like. Nice vid. I know other things as well. Nice haircut.

[@mena_makes]

It was a few weeks worth of onion skins 🧅 🙂

[@joooannee]

Love this video! So chill and calming. Also, very handsome modelling at the end there.

[@mena_makes]

thank you!

[@leticiaferreirac]

so cute, loved it :)

[@mena_makes]

(:

[@rosalie4069]

This is so nice, thank you. :) And it's great to see some local yarn, I'll have to remember that one for later!

[@mena_makes]

Glad you liked it, it's a beautiful yarn!