Dyepot PS #4 - Dyeing Yarn with Red Cabbage

Join me as I try to dye fiber with red cabbage for the first time! The color you extract from red cabbage is a pH indicator, and the color will shift depending on if you make the solution more basic or more acidic. Let's have fun and play with this interesting natural dye.

The yarn that took the most color were some bare yarn from KnitPicks. Wool of the Andes Worsted, Swish DK, and Stroll Fingering. You can find these yarns here http://shrsl.com/k9bg (KnitPicks Affiliate Link)

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VIDEO CONTENTS:
[0:00] Introduction
[2:41] Extracting the color from the red cabbage: I chopped up half the cabbage and simmered it in 12 cups of tap water. (I did this in two batches to make it a bit more concentrated and to use the rest of the red cabbage head. However this happens at a later timepoint)
[6:05] after ~10 min the water is simmering, reduce the heat and stir. Checking in on the color.
[7:02] After simmering for 20 min, removing the first batch of cabbage
[7:43] Adding the second half of the cabbage head (chopped) with NO additional water. let it heat for another 25 min.
[9:38] The 25 min are up, removing all of the cabbage and seeing if we extracted more color
[10:10] Comparing batches
[10:53] Color shifting the red cabbage with acid (white vinegar) and base (baking soda)
[12:48] Setting up 3 dyepots: 4 cups of red cabbage juice to two pots. Acid Bath: 2 T white vinegar + 1 cup water; Base Bath: 1.5 tsp baking soda + 1 cup water. Add the presoaked fibers to both. I decided to wind some more miniskeins to dye a third sample
[16:22] Closeups and Patreon Shout Outs
[18:07] Dyebath #3 of "neutral" dyebath (purple): just under 2 cups cabbage juice + 3 cups of water. This is more dillute than the other dyebaths but might give us another hue.
Turn off the heat from the orginal 2 pots after heating for 20+ min. Heat the new purple pot for 25 min to bring it to where the other two were. (Each of them heated at a low simmer for 20 min after bringing up to temp for 5)
[20:35] Turning off the heat from the purple pot.
[21:38] removing the cooled fiber from the pots to prepare for washing
[24:14] Washing the yarn and shirts by hand
[33:37] The finished dried yarns and conclusions
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