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Handpainting Speckles onto Dry Yarn with Food Coloring

4,468 views · Published 13 April 2018 · 14:12 · Indexed 10 November 2026

Channel: ChemKnits Tutorials · 2018 · Howto & Style

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Sometimes when you have only a tiny amount of leftover dye, you don't want to throw it out.  Today we handpainted rainbow speckles onto some Simply Wool yarn from KnitPicks in "Winkle" http://shrsl.com/ungo (Affiliate Link) with a paintbrush and some food coloring.  To keep the colors sharp and bright, we painted them directly onto the dry yarn.  The food coloring colors had a mixture of liquid drops and KoolAid, so they already had enough citric acid to help the colors bind to the yarn. 

VIDEO CONTENTS:
[0:00] Introduction
[0:25] The food coloring colors were mixed in Dyepot Weekly #35
[0:52] Painting the speckles (Includes a timelapse were 16 min was condensed into ~30 seconds)
[6:44] Taking a closer look at the speckled rainbow
[8:07] After touchups, preparing to steam the yarn
[8:44] After 20 min turning off the heat.  Letting the yarn cool a little bit before removing it from the basket.
[9:50] Washing the yarn
[10:54] The finished dry yarn and conclusions


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