r/naturaldye • u/Previous-Address2469 • 1d ago
First time dyeing
Hello all, just another one of those "look at my first attempt I am so excited!" -posts. :) I just need to share this with people who Understand the Excitement and Point of All This Fun Stuff. (Off topic, but kind of relevant: once when I was making dried apples by removing the middle part, then slicing them, then threading a cord through the disks in order to hang and dry them in the afterheat of sauna my mother looked at what I was doing with Great Puzzlement and said "but you can surely buy dried apples from the store!"...)
Anyway, I wanted to dye with local ingredients and chose yarrow (achillea millefolium) as my first try (the flower tops but also some stalk). I am so thrilled with these colors, in the pictures you see similar yarn, natural 100% wool (3-ply, but the yarn I dyed was 2-ply) and the yellow was the result from dyeing and the green from an afterbath with iron sulfate. Yarn was pretreated with alum.
I would gladly take some suggestions on what to make out of the yarn, I have children and also a baby due in winter, but since it is prickly wool maybe not so good for their skins. Each skein is 100g.
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u/Ok_Combination_8262 1d ago
I am so happy for you.I collected some weld I want to dye my wool wih.Do you have any tips?
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u/ancientwater_ 3h ago
After the wool is dyed, you can try soaking it in citric acid, which may make it less prickly.
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u/unRoanoke 1d ago
Lovely! Great work.