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Different yarn, same dye bath
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Wren lemmy.today Wren@lemmy.today
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Four cakes of yarn dyed different hues of green sitting on a dish cloth.

Just to show the difference material makes when dyeing. All of these went into the same dye bath at the same time and they all started out white or off-white.

I used Rit non-synthetic emerald and kelly green dyes. I have no idea the composition of the yarn, I got a big bag of various untagged cakes and skeins at my local thrift store for five bucks. I'll probably re-do the lighter ones in a synthetic dye bath to see what happens.

Normally I'd unwind yarn to dye but in this case I wanted the mottled look and variance in colour for a faux-moss blanket project.

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a_non_monotonic_function lemmy.world a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-10-22
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You gonna make something with all four?

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Wren Moderator Wren@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-11-04
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You gonna make something with all four?

Yep, and about two dozen more. A big fake moss looking curtain for a tent.

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a_non_monotonic_function lemmy.world a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
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Yep, and about two dozen more. A big fake moss looking curtain for a tent.

Yes.

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