WieDyed Taught Me How to Dye With Yarn?! (COMPLETE Disc Dyeing Workshop)

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Speaker 1
I’m Dave from the Dyers Guild and welcome to another episode of dying to listen workshop edition where I bring in a guest Dyers and then teach me how to die their method. At least the best attempt today. We have Jen from see now I’m going to have you pronounce your diet name. So I don’t have to.

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Speaker 3
It’s white eyed or we died depending on who could do either.

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Speaker 1
Yes. So that’s why I had you say it and not me. Thank you very much for coming on and for potentially teaching me. We’ll see how things go, but I’m super excited. This because I haven’t really seen anybody else do this besides you really. And I know you did a little video for the basement desires for Bobby for this. Difference is doing it and I’ve always wanted to give it a try myself because it seems like it’s a very unique design. How did you even come up with this technique and what do you call this technique?

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Speaker 3
It’s more things you’re not going to like. There’s not one name for it.

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Speaker 3
So it was I think I was just watching so many like social media videos about dying and all you know the algorithm decided I need to watch every kind of like art thing. And so there was a lot of like acrylic pouring videos that would crop up. And there was just one where it was more like they poured paint and then they dragged like

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Speaker 3
chains and pearls through it. And I was just like, Oh, what happened if I dragged stuff and I knit. And so I happened to have like a bunch of different kinds of yarn. And so I grabbed like five or six different kinds and played around with, you know, dipping in random stuff and dragging it. And this one yarn seemed to work and it kind of does cool stuff.

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Speaker 1
Very cool. How well I mean it seems like you need a specific type of yarn which you sent me. Why? Why does this seem to work better than others?

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Speaker 3
So like most regular yarn, he go to a yarn store is just round in shape. And so that especially unlike the glue bed style just doesn’t hold a lot of dye and so it doesn’t displace a lot of dye as you drag it. So this particular yarn, which is called like eyelash yarn or boa yarn, sometimes fur yarn, because it has like that long flat look to it, it sits on top a lot better. So as you drag it, it doesn’t like dig underneath the glue. And then I think just that fringe holds more dye. So as you drag it kind of like I know it lets the dye out better in a more of a pattern.

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Speaker 3
I haven’t tried like I haven’t tried a lot more once I found this one. I tried some other fringe stuff but nothing was quite as long as this. I think this is I don’t know, somewhere between a little inconsistent like a quarter to a half an inch or so. So anything shorter than that seemed to not really do this particular thing. You can use other yarn for edges that I’m other dipping direct to the disc type thing. But in the glue bed so far, this is the only thing that I could really get to work.

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Speaker 1
How did you end up on using white glue as the base medium?

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Speaker 3
Actually, kind of. It all started in my dying journey when not everything, this was before you. So like there was there was not super helpful people just like outright publishing like details for how to do stuff. So it wasn’t like completely hush hush but like you knew it was a glue bed but there was not a lot of specific how to do what. And I had been watching Tiffany Shaw I think with someone I watched who did like glue bed stuff and she used white glue. So like the first thing I bought was white glue and I was trying to do like regular glue bed stuff on white glue and that does not work very well. So before it was basically because I had this whole gallon and I was before I had switched over so I had then switched to clear glue and so I had this just gallon of white glue and yeah lots of here’s and there’s and then I tried to add white glue and it worked better than clear glue I thought for this method.

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Speaker 1
What other bed types have you tried?

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Speaker 3
Just for glue stuff. I honestly haven’t done like lotion or flow trail or anything like that yet. I haven’t gotten super into flow trail. I have like a gallon.

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Speaker 3
I started getting into flow trail and I was like I’m going to focus just on the one thing I’m doing better right now because so I just I haven’t done a lot with it.

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Speaker 1
I guess I should ask specifically what other beds have you done with this yarn technique?

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Speaker 3
Yeah so just like clear glue and the white glue so nothing else yet.

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Speaker 1
Gotcha. I mean I know you haven’t tried it. Do you think other beds would work better than others?

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Speaker 3
I think it could like I’m actually like I said if I had more flow trail to like spare I might do that.

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Speaker 3
I think one thing that’s different about like the white glue is it has like its water content obviously its composition is different so it the clear glue just like clings to it too much and it doesn’t like I don’t know like spread out as you put the yarn and drag it so I think flow trail being that more like I know creamy sort of composition might actually do something similar but if I tried flow trail it was it’s not in my head like maybe I did but it was a couple years ago and so I don’t recall.

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Speaker 1
And it’s gone.

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Speaker 1
So speaking of flow trail you’re located in Canada right?

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Speaker 3
No I’m in Michigan.

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Speaker 1
Michigan that’s pretty close in Canada. How much is flow trail over there? I mean it’s like just a hop skipping away from me but.

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Speaker 3
Okay I honestly haven’t bought it in a while because like at the time like I said I a couple as a year no I guess last year didn’t really exist for me so I guess it was like two or three years ago I tried it and it was just like the amount I looked at what I could do first off it was like the amount of trial and error I’m gonna have to do to figure out like the general cell bed flow trail thing is going to be more than I want to spare.

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Speaker 3
So I didn’t say that it felt like it itself was expensive but I didn’t have the money to like do all the methods and I was doing lotion bed stuff and the glue bed like stuff so that was what I wanted to just.

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Speaker 1
No I find it interesting that these dyers find these techniques and they do it based on what they have in their scrappiness because like the guys by Red Video he’s like I just got this this mixed together and I did this like oh cool.

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Speaker 1
So yeah it’s very interesting to see how scrappy people can be to come up with certain techniques.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. So yeah we’ll be using the white glue and there’s gonna be a specific consistency that we want to try to hit with the white glue.

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Speaker 3
So you can like it works fine for the method of like the dye coming off of the yarn it works fine as is for the glue. I just find when the glue as is bought from the store is just thick and so it takes a little bit of like shuffling it doesn’t always settle as quick maybe I’m just impatient doesn’t settle as quick to flat that I like. So I like to water it down a bit just so that I can like pour it in give it a quick shuffle and it’s mostly flat but like technically you can use it straight out of the jar as far as the dye applying fine.

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Speaker 1
Do you find that applying the dye with the yarn the normal slash watered down consistency makes a difference?

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Speaker 3
If it’s too watery I played around with it and it’s I didn’t do like a lot. I’m not I’m not a very much like experimenter like usually once I find something it works I’m just like okay let’s do that and sometimes I’ll play with it if I just if it’s not quite what I want but I’m very much like oh it worked let’s keep it there don’t it ain’t broke don’t fix it. So I did play a little bit and too much water seems to it’ll make more sense once you do the technique it seems to pull too much dye with it so like it doesn’t leave enough behind

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Speaker 3
so far so I tend to still want it pretty thick like you don’t want it super flowtrol thin or anything like that you want it on the thicker side of a flowtrol but yeah.

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Speaker 1
Okay and the dye we’re going to be using is going to be prochemical and dye mixed with acetone. Why did you choose that versus something else like denatured or something less harsh?

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Speaker 3
Because that’s just what I use for everything else.

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Speaker 3
I do have denatured and I use it like for a little bit of spin dyeing or like coloring and stuff like that but again like at the and that’s kind of now like at the time when I first started playing with it I was mostly doing like your standard clear glue bed acetone mix on it and so that is what I had and that works so part of I’m excited to like share this just to be like okay here’s a starting point now everybody else you know you guys do the work try something else see what you can do with it so yeah I haven’t actually tried denatured with it at all wasn’t my specialty so didn’t know there yet.

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Speaker 1
Have you noticed the acetone because like what is this yarn made of and has the acetone melted any of the yarn?

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Speaker 3
That was a concern of mine I’m no chemist so I just did the let’s just dip it in and see what happens as opposed to like being like could this like cause fumes that will like knock me out?

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Speaker 3
I just went for it it doesn’t seem to so I can find the.

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Speaker 1
Yeah so it looks like it’s saying it’s a hundred percent polyester.

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Speaker 3
Okay there you go yeah.

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Speaker 5
Hmm.

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Speaker 3
Yeah it’s not it’s not natural fibers or anything but it doesn’t seem I mean I haven’t done sustained like I haven’t soaked it in there to see like how long it tends to dissolve or anything but the the brief distance that will be doing doesn’t affect it at all.

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Speaker 1
All right well so I’m gonna be mixing up some colors and the colors that we’re going to be doing today is going to be pansy, royal, and iris.

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Speaker 1
And why do you like those colors?

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Speaker 3
Um I I just like the I think so contrast is a little bit fun um I think for bits like this it’s good to have like variations and this like sets each petal apart is to you know have a little bit of that um and it’s those colors I can consistently work seem to work well um sometimes I just have mixing issues with some of my colors or they come out a little funny um so I like those ones because they’ll make my go-tos they just seem to like work I don’t have to get too picky with them.

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Speaker 3
I like them I like them bold too.

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Speaker 3
Once being with the colors for this because um because kind of the detail is very like light it’s a lot of color variation I found that pale colors just don’t work great um I’ve tried doing it as well even bold colors on clear discs tend to just wash out just because again like the details in there so um I don’t like doing any sort of like clear

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Speaker 3
plastic I usually use I wonder if it like you know star neutron stuff like that um and I like stuff that’s just very vibrant very bold just because it really gives you like the depth for that um so those three colors consistently give me lots of good color variation.

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Speaker 1
Have you tried any like neon colors?

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Speaker 3
Yeah I have um this is a little bit of a flop but I can show you. Um so this is an early on experiment um so you can kind of see maybe I can get the colors like the neon is there it is a little bit old maybe up there a little bit um maybe down here that’s better you can see kind of the issue with like the yellows is like just odd other things there’s not enough like contrast to see it um and I think this is an old neon lemon zest here’s a clear orange which was there a little bit bolding this is like a two-year-old disc um neon painted right here so they’re there but it’s good you can’t see as well but this is not not the depth there so yeah you can use some neon stuff you can use some light stuff um I use um I can’t I don’t know how to pronounce it is it Caribbean or Caribbean blue? It’s just like the one thing. Is there a correct answer?

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Speaker 1
I don’t know I see.

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Speaker 1
Whatever

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Speaker 3
the correct answer is for that I use that one and that is probably about as light as I go but I can usually get that one to be a little punchy in color so.

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Speaker 1
Nice I know um Caribbean is how I say it in clear glue can be a bit finicky at times so that’s interesting that it works um decently in white glue. Another question I have that we’ll get to eventually is do you heat your disc when it’s in the bed or do you just let it sit at room temperature?

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Speaker 3
So I am here I still use a my old heat lamp I know a lot of the cool kids moved on to the dehydrators but I have like this much space for my diverse area so I just don’t have room for that but I’ve got a heat lamp hanging um so I do use heat um I have let them sit but especially those colors that just do better with a little bit of heat I just think you get a lot more again the contrast is what makes this technique kind of stick out so anything you can do to get a little more possessed would be good.

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Speaker 1
I’m gonna ask this question anyways but do you know how hot it gets but and also how long you let it sit for more importantly?

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Speaker 3
I can tell you what the answer used to be.

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Speaker 5
Okay.

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Speaker 3
When I first mistreated my glue bed stuff I want to say the answer was somewhere around like 110, 115 maybe something like that when I measured it a couple years ago and I want to say at least two hours is what I sit.

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Speaker 3
My technique now is I set my heat lamp I can change its height and it moves depending on what I’m doing so I set it and then after a half an hour I feel it and if it feels too hot I move it and if it’s too cold I move it.

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Speaker 1
There you go.

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Speaker 3
So but yeah once upon a time when I measured I think it was I think it was like one time I’m 15.

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Speaker 1
Okay why do you let it sit for two hours and not more or less?

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Speaker 3
I do sometimes do more um and it’s sometimes I just I don’t trust myself like I just I’ve had those dies that I took it out too soon and it just because a little bit of a you know chaos not actually measuring things type person I just didn’t let it sit too long or quite hot enough and so I’m just I like to err on the side of longer um I haven’t noticed with this technique it doesn’t there’s not a lot of like blurring there’s not a lot of like fading or fuzzing that you get for a long long time I haven’t really left it that long um like last night I did one and I did it too late in the night and I had to go to bed so I didn’t have time to let it sit under the heat for that long so I think it had like maybe 45 minutes of heat and I let it sit overnight too so just maybe it doesn’t need two hours but that is just my like safety number that I like it seems to work okay.

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Speaker 1
No it’s also good to know that even if you do let it sit in there it won’t blur because I know some techniques if you let it sit in the bed for a while the lion seemed to get a little bit more fuzzy.

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Speaker 3
Yeah yeah nothing noticeable where I’m just like that ruins the technique or anything like that yeah so sometimes yeah I like to do at least a little bit of heat the one I did notice I didn’t give it a lot of heat so um the colors aren’t as bold as I would have liked so I definitely would have usually done a lot more but as far as the blurring goes yeah you can let it sit and it’s funny.

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Speaker 1
Have you ever tried this technique and not use heat?

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Speaker 3
I don’t think so because I think I started this after I have had been playing with glue beds and I always used heat or I didn’t always but the times that worked out better I always used heat so I think for this technique the only experiments I’ve done have been at least a little bit of heat.

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Speaker 1
Yeah again anybody listening I would highly recommend to use some sort of heat source obviously a heat lamp works perfectly fine uh just be careful not to burn your house down.

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Speaker 3
Yeah definitely checking on it every couple hours.

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Speaker 1
Yeah uh so I guess I’ll go through everything that we’ll be using so again the white glue I always want to say clear glue because that’s I’ve never really used white glue before so this is going to be fun.

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Speaker 1
Uh the dye and if you guys are interested we do sell the dye on the Dyer’s Guild website we do have sample packs as well as any other size that will come directly from Prokoone Dye.

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Speaker 1
I have some measuring spoons for measuring stuff out. I do

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Speaker 3
use measuring spoons for dye.

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Speaker 1
Okay so got that um I have the disc and I will be doing a star destroyer and I think you’ll be doing a star fox which is same plastic so that’s good so we can compare notes there.

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Speaker 1
Uh as far as a bed it seems like really anything that you can use that you normally use that as long as the disc doesn’t bottom out you should be good.

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Speaker 1
Um I’m using an ultra star for this for now I’ve used um these plastic plates and also some pipe hands in the past but we’ll keep the theme with this one because I did the same thing with uh Mr. Red. The most important thing is this yarn. Where specifically can people get this specific yarn?

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Speaker 3
Um that particular brand I don’t know I don’t know if they if that brand makes this yarn you can find like other brands that make fur and fringe yarn um so you can try a craft store um but your best fit might be online because it is a novelty specialty kind of thing so if you walk into like Michaels they might not have something quite like that. Um I bought like like six games for a couple bucks on eBay is where I found mine.

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Speaker 1
So okay okay uh for the dye I’ll be mixing it in these two ounce bottles and these are HDPE bottles which we also do sell on the website and since we’re using acetone we want to make sure the container is acetone safe so it doesn’t melt.

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Speaker 1
Uh then I’m clumsy and I have this little holder tray so they don’t spill.

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Speaker 1
Uh I guess I

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Speaker 3
need to get one of those because I had to mishap earlier today because I didn’t have one so let my I don’t have one yet but let me also recommend that

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Speaker 1
I’ll send you some I’ll send you some uh I have some syringes because I have some hot water on a

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Speaker 1
thing or a bobber that heats things. What is that called? A burner not a burner but a heat pad I don’t know a thing for the the pan so what I mix of that I’m going to be using some hot water and um I’ll probably be using some of that water for the glue. Uh you got some isopropyl alcohol to clean the disc and some acetone for the mixture, paper towel and uh a towel because I feel like things are going to get a little messy. Yeah yeah uh and I also do have a scale back here for when we get to the white glue portion too because we’re going to be thinning it out with some water and we’ll see how that goes.

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Speaker 1
Because uh usually you like to thin out the white glue a day or two beforehand to make sure there’s no bubbles in there.

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Speaker 3
Um yes but maybe there’s maybe there’s a nicer technique but we’ll maybe there’s maybe there’s a nicer technique but my technique is typically to like mix it up and then give it the old bartender you know shape to really get it in there which creates a lot of bubbles so I do like to then like bang it a couple times and let it sit but if you can be more gentle perhaps and maybe you could do it a little sooner.

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Speaker 1
I’m not going to be doing it in the jug I do have this um also I just got a brand new secret weapon toy that I’m curious to try.

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Speaker 1
It is a vacuum chamber.

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Speaker 3
Oh this could be fun.

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Speaker 4
Oh god.

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Speaker 3
Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 1
It literally just came in a few minutes before we started filming.

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Speaker 3
Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 1
But I’m honestly really curious to see in general how much uh bubbles come out of the medium in general like I haven’t used it all yet so uh yeah the first thing that I’m going to be doing is mixing the colors because I’d like to do that first.

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Speaker 1
I like to mix the colors beforehand just so any other sediment of the dye settles to the bottom.

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Speaker 1
Um I think we should be fine but I’m just going to do that first and we’ll send it.

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Speaker 3
Um I agree.

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Speaker 1
Are you going to be mixing any with me or are you going to tell me how to? Um

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Speaker 3
I am not going to because I um like I said I’ve been having some mix issues um so I wanted to make sure that they’re um going to uh be all right. I’ve been I’ve been uh on maternity leave for dying so I wanted to check everything kind of before we get on here so I have all of mine though um I have these little some of these are Nel jeans and these are off brand little colors. So got all mine all set.

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Speaker 1
What is your mixing ratio that you use?

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Speaker 3
My base ratio is the Dyer’s Guild uh instructions so I believe that is the uh half teaspoon dye one teaspoon hot water two ounces acetone. Uh

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Speaker 1
I feel like it was mixed up somewhere but uh one teaspoon dye for two ounces and one you

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Speaker 3
use one teaspoon dye?

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Speaker 1
Yes.

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Speaker 3
Oh okay.

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Speaker 1
Uh let me check my chart real quick. I keep forgetting which I really should know what this is.

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Speaker 3
And uh I think I only I was spogging those

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Speaker 3
because I thought this when I wrote down because I also hardly ever remember and only look it up right before it makes a dye.

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Speaker 1
So we do have a mixing chart on the Dyer’s Guild website and other resources and if you do place an order you will get this chart as well um but for the acetone it is a half teaspoon of dye one teaspoon water to add two ounces of acetone. So you were right and I was wrong.

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Speaker 3
I looked it up right before class says hilarious.

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Speaker 1
Kidoki uh so I’m going to mix that up and I’ll probably just do one to show you guys but I do have a specific video on how I mix uh this acetone dye but basically I put the dye in then I put in a little bit of hot water to dissolve the dye. Uh so I only got one teaspoon measuring things uh so I’m just going to use half of it for now because like these are two ounce bottles.

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Speaker 3
I feel like that’s the spirit of my my dyeing vibes though is just you know I it’s fine.

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Speaker 1
Yes I also well I don’t know about this technique but I feel like in general adding more dye isn’t going to hurt too much. It’s better than not having enough.

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Speaker 3
Yeah if you’ve given it time to settle it shouldn’t be a big issue.

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Speaker 1
Yeah

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Speaker 1
now I probably should label these what color they are so before I start before I start it

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Speaker 3
can be a surprise.

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Speaker 1
Well I mean yes so this is going pansy

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Speaker 1
so got the dye then we’re going to put in some hot water because I feel like hot water seems to dissolve the dye better than cold water.

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Speaker 3
Now I’m not curious do you like set up specific temperature for your hot or is it just have you played around with different levels of hot?

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Speaker 1
Hot good.

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Speaker 1
I have not the the burner I basically you see the water vapor wisping off the surface it’s not boiling and it’s not

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Speaker 1
cold it’s near boiling I guess is how I would describe it.

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Speaker 4
Next we’ll put some acetone I don’t know if we’re going to use this.

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Speaker 1
So I had the water and dye dissolve

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Speaker 1
and I like to leave a little bit of space in there so I can mix it up. So that’s one color and you can shake it up which is perfectly fine for this. I also have a lab mixture that really shakes it up that you can also use for this. I also feel like the lab mixture works good for thicker stuff that you’re trying to mix because it’s really invigorating like

[01:28:10:03 – 01:28:11:07]
Speaker 3
a lotion floetrol.

[01:28:12:22 – 01:28:18:23]
Speaker 1
Next color is going to be royal.

[01:28:20:03 – 01:28:23:01]
Speaker 1
Honestly I don’t think I’ve ever personally used royal.

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Speaker 2
Really?

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Speaker 1
What kind of what kind of color is it? It’s royal.

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Speaker 3
Well it’s a blue.

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Speaker 5
Okay.

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Speaker 3
I’d like to it’s kind of um

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Speaker 3
at least how I feel like sometimes my colors it seem to not be the same as other people’s colors and I always wonder if like my water is funny or something but it’s like a it’s just more bright it’s like a chipper blue it’s not solid like navy.

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Speaker 1
How long ago did you buy your dyes that you have mixed up?

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Speaker 3
I don’t know it depends on actually what’s going on. Oh that’s a good question. Does the powder dye go bad?

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Speaker 1
I don’t think it goes bad but I think there I don’t know I but I feel like there might be some differences in the batches if they’re like super super old because the reason I say that is I was doing an experiment with Britney and we used the same exact everything

[01:29:35:18 – 01:29:56:08]
Speaker 1
but our results were different and I was wondering if she had an older batch dye or potentially the water and I even tried using distilled water to reduce that variable.

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Speaker 1
That’s why I asked how old your dye is.

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Speaker 3
Yeah it’s really interesting so some of mine are um like five or six years old some of my like base original colors

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Speaker 3
and then some of them I’ve run out of so I’ve gotten new ones or things like that so they’re yeah between between one and a half to six years old.

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Speaker 1
For the colors that you ran out and replaced have you noticed that they acted the same?

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Speaker 3
Um which one did you add to do?

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Speaker 3
The Caribbean I think I think that was the same and who were the others? Only Ben and um the neon pink.

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Speaker 5
Okay.

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Speaker 3
Cerise, how do you pronounce that?

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Speaker 3
I feel like I’m one of those people like I read a lot and don’t actually hear some of these pronounced so I don’t know how you pronounce it. Um the hot pink.

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Speaker 1
Yes I laugh because I say um the Game of Thrones character’s name Cerise or Cerise or Cerise whatever Cerise pink Cerise Cerise pink.

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Speaker 3
I don’t know how it’s pronounced.

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Speaker 1
Welcome to the club.

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Speaker 4
Great.

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Speaker 1
But yeah I wonder if the batches from Prochem over the years have changed. I mean the colors may look slightly different when you get it as powered form but once you put it on the disc it seems to be the the same that way. Um yeah yeah it was just weird that one experiment that we did everything was the same. Again the difference is we’re at first we used tap water.

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Speaker 1
I wasn’t sure because I have a water softener which adds salt to the water.

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Speaker 5
Yeah.

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Speaker 1
And I don’t know if Brittany did or not or who even if it was like well water if there’s certain minerals in there that I don’t know but yeah.

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Speaker 3
So what you’re two with the tap versus distilled were those two different or just yours versus hers?

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Speaker 1
So I did for me I did my tap water and I did distilled and the results were the same. So I didn’t I didn’t notice the difference with the water. Um now I’m thinking about it she didn’t do she just used her tap water she didn’t get distilled water so we didn’t do that comparison.

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Speaker 1
Um but the test fear that we were doing is does adding something make it so you get better saturation and when we added this thing to her mixes she got better saturation I didn’t it was the same which was really really weird.

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Speaker 1
Okay so I got the three mixes mix and I want to label this so I don’t forget where it was last one I did was iris.

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Speaker 1
All right what do I do now?

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Speaker 2
Okay so I

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Speaker 3
think the other step is me to cut the yarn into some smaller sizes.

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Speaker 1
Okay.

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Speaker 3
So you’ll need to find the end of your yarn.

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Speaker 5
So there’s

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Speaker 3
usually one wrapped around the outside and there’s also one that usually comes from the inside and if you don’t want to do with it you just cut a random spot and then you can start pulling.

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Speaker 1
Hmm I feel like this can get tangled pretty fast.

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Speaker 1
I’m not oh oh oh I feel like

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Speaker 1
okay well there’s I got a giant loop I’m not seeing an end might just have to cut it.

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Speaker 3
Does the loop go into the middle of the edge like does it stick in?

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Speaker 3
Really both from the outside.

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Speaker 1
Okay there we go.

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Speaker 3
There you go.

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Speaker 1
So that’s what I thought but this yarn is very deceiving like it all looks the same.

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Speaker 5
Okay yep.

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Speaker 1
Oh yeah the other thing I need scissors or something.

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Speaker 3
Yeah scissors or like a knife or something like that. So I think with the new thing we’ll try the new pattern will try.

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Speaker 3
Usually I need somewhere between like six and eight pieces of yarn like eight cuddly watercolor things and then I’ll usually cut more because sometimes you got to go back over it because I didn’t like one of them so I would just cut I think it’s usually around like depending on how big I’m making them six to eight inches so kind of like a hand spanned or so. My

[01:35:26:04 – 01:35:29:04]
Speaker 1
hand span is nine inches.

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Speaker 3
Mine I think is like somewhere between seven and eight so it does not have to be exact. The only part we’ll be putting in the bed itself is going to be

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Speaker 3
the first couple inches and I like a little bit more so that my fingers aren’t touching die. So as long as it is like a fist a fist to put it. I can hold it I can go over there okay.

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Speaker 3
Okay so I’m going to cut mine roughly eight inches but we’re only going to be putting like four to five actually in the die so like that’s minimum and then anything else’s personal preference for like extra.

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Speaker 1
Does it hurt that if it’s too long?

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Speaker 3
No I could just be using more yarn that could be used for a different one. Unfortunately because of the whole glue situation I have tried a little bit of like to reuse old stuff but once you put it in the glue and take it off like it has a whole process to even try to clean it if you do want to clean it and so it’s not like reusable for different color because it’s covered in glue.

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Speaker 3
So you want extras and sometimes if I have a lot of excess at the end and I have a used one I’ll trim it off and use it for my small yarn needs because there’s some like we’ll cut a couple short ones too for some fixing.

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Speaker 1
Mm-hmm so question I have for you when I’m cutting this I notice that sometimes I cut and the little fuzzies hang off. Is that going to affect anything if you put it in the die like if the fuzzy.

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Speaker 3
Just at the end.

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Speaker 1
Yeah like if it gets pulled off.

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Speaker 3
I would probably pull it off but it’s just gonna hang out probably either it’ll fall off in your die or it will just hang out in your bed.

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Speaker 3
Or it’ll drag along

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Speaker 1
and that won’t necessarily cause an issue.

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Speaker 3
So the only other thing that I like to look for is sometimes there’ll be like a knot in it or a spot where like it’s okay if the yarn is bent and so it twists backwards and forwards because when you lay it the weight of the die will like you can twist it around but if there is a spot see if I can find one that is particularly crunched and like the feathery bits are all just like

[01:38:06:11 – 01:38:10:11]
Speaker 3
probably like trim around that or like cut you know just skip that piece.

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Speaker 5
Okay.

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Speaker 3
I’m not seeing any so far on mine.

[01:38:14:01 – 01:38:28:12]
Speaker 1
I feel like this uh I don’t know what the measurement of unit of yarn is but I feel like this bulk would last quite a bit of time.

[01:38:28:12 – 01:38:51:15]
Speaker 3
I think this is my second one and I don’t think I actually finished the first one so I mean I don’t do these these aren’t my only types of die I do so I don’t do these every week um but yeah I still have plenty of yarn. I’ve got six more balls.

[01:38:53:00 – 01:38:59:21]
Speaker 1
So yeah it was approximately 65 meters or 71 yards is what it says.

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Speaker 1
Uh how many should I be cutting up?

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Speaker 3
Probably at least eight just to be careful so we have extras.

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Speaker 5
Yeah.

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Speaker 3
And then it can’t hurt again. I like to for someone who doesn’t measure stuff I still like to do a little extra caution to just have some extras on hand so I don’t have to cut it in the middle of a project.

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Speaker 5
Yeah okay.

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Speaker 3
I don’t know if you can see this on mine but I’ve got a couple here that are just like bent a little bit they’re not as I don’t know can you see I can’t tell if that’s focusing or not but there’s kind of like bent and so they don’t always straighten out and I’d like mine to be like straight out so here’s straight ones so I’m gonna cut this one short and just use it for something else because I’m gonna work around that spot.

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Speaker 1
Okay.

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Speaker 3
I don’t like it.

[01:40:00:14 – 01:40:09:08]
Speaker 1
Yeah I mean I got a piece like this it’s kind of a little jink.

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Speaker 3
Yeah I probably would save that as like a different pile so I don’t grab it when I’m reaching for some of them. Um I in addition to cutting these main ones I’m also going to cut a couple shorter ones because sometimes I do little spot fixing and I just need like either an inch or like two or three inches so I’ll take that one and just cut the good stuff off around that if the measurements don’t work out so great so I’ll just do a couple

[01:40:38:01 – 01:40:40:07]
Speaker 3
of these little short guys too.

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Speaker 1
Yeah it seemed like uh for me at least the beginning of the the yarn was more mangled than after I started kind of unwrapping it.

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Speaker 3
It seems to go through like patches like I’ll go a couple yards with no issues and then just have a bunch. Yeah they’re like I think it’s just the way it’s like wound if you’re pulling from the inside or outside just it’s a little funny thinking it.

[01:41:12:05 – 01:41:16:08]
Speaker 1
Yeah now we’re getting some good pieces here.

[01:41:20:06 – 01:41:23:10]
Speaker 1
It’s like uh long eyelashes.

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Speaker 1
Yes.

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Speaker 3
That’s another name for it if I didn’t say that one’s also called eyelash yarn.

[01:41:34:21 – 01:41:38:11]
Speaker 1
Have you ever tried to use fake eyelashes?

[01:41:40:00 – 01:41:41:05]
Speaker 3
I haven’t yet no.

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Speaker 3
There is like a lot of stuff like when I first started dying I like you know I don’t have much money I can afford the dye and the glue and that’s about it so a lot of my original items are like extra stuff I had around my house.

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Speaker 3
So I do have like this these like kitchen it’s like a like a meat prong two prong thing I use for glue beds. I have uh like the hair clippers like the blades I had one of those that I stole. Don’t tell my.

[01:42:16:11 – 01:42:22:20]
Speaker 3
So I’ve got a lot of random stuff but I don’t have fake eyelashes to trust that but that would be kind of fun to try.

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Speaker 5
Yeah okay.

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Speaker 3
we’ll take those and put them somewhere where you can have easy access.

[01:42:30:22 – 01:42:37:13]
Speaker 4
And

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Speaker 3
then I do have uh or I do want to also get some eyedroppers out too for this as well.

[01:42:50:14 – 01:42:59:17]
Speaker 2
Okay so I

[01:42:59:17 – 01:43:08:02]
Speaker 3
think ready to go.

[01:43:11:07 – 01:43:14:18]
Speaker 3
So let’s go ahead and pour our beds next then.

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Speaker 1
Do I need to.

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Speaker 3
Oh you got a mixture of glue that’s right. I have mine free done because I’m a terrible person.

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Speaker 1
I was gonna say I would like to see the consistency of your glue but I don’t know if it makes a difference if the glue sits in the bed too long.

[01:43:33:09 – 01:43:41:02]
Speaker 1
If it starts to because I know um it can develop like a thin film on top that it starts dry.

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Speaker 3
I can pour a little bit because I like to play it safe and do kind of a thick layer so I can pour at least the first bit and I’ll just add a little bit more later.

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Speaker 3
So this is actually on the thinner side again there’s a little bit of I don’t know if it’s again a little bit of variety in how much water so this is kind of thin. I’d say this is as thin as I would go. Okay here. Can you give me a good picture?

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Speaker 1
Yeah no that’s great.

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Speaker 1
Um I know I like I’ve never done this and I’ve never mixed it this way. My concern is that the water won’t thoroughly get mixed in.

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Speaker 1
Find out.

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Speaker 3
So usually that’s why usually I do a closed container like an old glue jug and I just shake it so that it does get thoroughly in there. Um I think it’s just going to take more mixing but I think you can I think you can do it because I did um I was trying to play around with it last night to see if we could do it and just like a light rotation repeatedly.

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Speaker 5
Yeah.

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Speaker 3
So you can mix it eventually.

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Speaker 5
All right.

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Speaker 4
If this

[01:45:00:14 – 01:45:11:01]
Speaker 1
doesn’t work for whatever reason I do have some containers uh like a larger squeeze bottle I think that I could be able to be able to use but I’m hoping this works.

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Speaker 3
And yeah and you know what like I said before like the glue as is works for the technique it’s just lumpier and it depends on the brand and it depends on how old it is and what temperature it is at like I’m in my basement it’s kind of cold mine might have started out a little thicker so we’ll try it.

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Speaker 1
I don’t know if you can see that

[01:45:37:22 – 01:45:38:23]
Speaker 1
which is a bit thick.

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Speaker 3
I can’t see the the details so if you still accept corn if you like you know give it a little shuffle at the bottom does it seem to like settle pretty flat or is it resisting?

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Speaker 1
Uh

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Speaker 1
it seems like other parts are thicker than others.

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Speaker 3
So yeah so that’s why I like to add the water just so I’m not spending so much time like sitting and waiting for that um but I’ve tried I’ve taken like a like a tongue depressor or like a coffee stirrer stick and just like gone over it like raked over it to help it with some of the lumps and then did a little shuffle.

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Speaker 1
I’d say let’s add some water and see what happens.

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Speaker 1
I know you said you had some weights I may have just negated that because I put the glue in but we could still see I guess what is your ratios?

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Speaker 3
So when it’s so it’s roughly so like the the weight volume is different obviously for glue water um but like cupwise so like visual measurement it was about like six cups of glue to a half a cup of water so it’s not a lot of water.

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Speaker 3
So what does that make it like a one twelve to one

[01:47:00:01 – 01:47:05:12]
Speaker 1
so you said six six cups of glue to one cup water?

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Speaker 3
Half cup water.

[01:47:07:17 – 01:47:09:14]
Speaker 1
Oh yeah so yeah twelve to one.

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Speaker 1
Okay well six I got about 16 ounces in this bad boy.

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Speaker 3
I could do some math try to do some conversions.

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Speaker 1
We’ll do milliliters because my syringe has milliliters so I got 500 milliliters. I’m using math.

[01:47:34:10 – 01:47:35:12]
Speaker 1
I’ve heard about about 12.

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Speaker 1
So I need about 42 give or take milliliters. Does that seem right?

[01:47:46:15 – 01:47:54:00]
Speaker 1
Sure we’ll send it. It’s not an exact science right?

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Speaker 3
No that’s kind of like like there are some things that I like to measure or like to get a base but I feel like my dying experience is like whimsy like you know it’s it’s it’s close.

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Speaker 3
It’s not going to cause a chemical reaction and like explode or anything so.

[01:48:15:02 – 01:48:23:19]
Speaker 1
Yeah and sometimes dying just feels like cooking where you just kind of go by feel.

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Speaker 1
So and that’s when I was doing it with Red he knows the consistency of like what it looks like and what it feels like and he can nail that every time but it’s hard to translate that to somebody who’s never done that like how can you describe what the viscosity is.

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Speaker 1
Also I felt like the water mixed in really well with this.

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Speaker 1
I’m not trying to whisk it per se but I’m I’m not trying to whisk it per se but before well I’m debating if I want to I really want to try my

[01:49:08:05 – 01:49:17:22]
Speaker 1
vacuum chamber but I don’t think the Ultra Star will fit in there so I’m going to try it just with this before I put it in the bed.

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Speaker 3
Just to say. How much how much glue did you put in there?

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Speaker 1
It was in the this container which was 500 milliliters which was about 16 ounces.

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Speaker 5
Okay.

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Speaker 3
Yeah whatever whatever glue amount you’d usually use for a glue bed just make sure you have enough for your pan with you know half inch plus pan how domy your disc is.

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Speaker 2
Yeah you

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Speaker 1
know I’m I know what it is for my pans but I should have enough.

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Speaker 3
Again you just don’t want to bottom out on your on your pan that’s all.

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Speaker 1
Well I’m almost positive we should have plenty if not I can dump it and make some more.

[01:50:09:11 – 01:50:22:02]
Speaker 3
But honestly like sometimes if I don’t have enough I and I haven’t mixed it I will just straight add glue and just delicately you know mix it in the pan and try not to add too many air bubbles.

[01:50:25:01 – 01:50:30:04]
Speaker 1
Okay I’m very curious to see how this works.

[01:50:32:02 – 01:50:42:19]
Speaker 1
Um I gotta move the pump so I can reach my outlet. It really fits.

[01:50:46:03 – 01:50:46:12]
Speaker 1
Okay

[01:50:46:12 – 01:50:52:21]
Speaker 4
then we’ll put that there

[01:50:52:21 – 01:50:57:15]
Speaker 1
and should

[01:50:57:15 – 01:50:59:10]
Speaker 4
still be able to kind of see.

[01:50:59:10 – 01:51:05:18]
Speaker 1
But we’ll turn it on and see what happens.

[01:51:07:19 – 01:51:13:08]
Speaker 3
I can’t see from my screen does it look like there’s did you say there’s air bubbles that you can clearly watch new vacuumed or?

[01:51:13:08 – 01:51:21:22]
Speaker 1
It seems like some are coming out.

[01:51:26:07 – 01:51:26:20]
Speaker 5
I think.

[01:51:30:17 – 01:51:36:20]
Speaker 1
I’ve only used it once to test like to see that it took pressure.

[01:51:36:20 – 01:51:46:05]
Speaker 3
Did you buy and you bought that like just for your just dying too?

[01:51:46:05 – 01:51:59:12]
Speaker 1
Uh-huh because I wanted to do some tests in general. So I just got to make sure that the pressure doesn’t exceed a certain amount because it’s only graded for a certain amount.

[01:52:07:07 – 01:52:10:09]
Speaker 1
I’m afraid it’s cheap I’m afraid.

[01:52:14:00 – 01:52:16:19]
Speaker 3
I’m scared to do pressure canning just because I’m afraid of

[01:52:17:20 – 01:52:19:09]
Speaker 3
pressure ice objects.

[01:52:21:02 – 01:52:23:05]
Speaker 1
Well what a sit there.

[01:52:25:19 – 01:52:30:12]
Speaker 1
It seems like air bubbles are popping up.

[01:52:32:07 – 01:52:33:01]
Speaker 1
I feel like I want to.

[01:52:37:12 – 01:52:37:18]
Speaker 5
Huh.

[01:52:39:15 – 01:52:40:09]
Speaker 3
Don’t explode.

[01:52:40:09 – 01:52:41:06]
Speaker 4
Yeah.

[01:52:45:02 – 01:52:55:22]
Speaker 1
So with it being so thick I don’t know if it should sit for a while or not. I’ll give it a second not exploding but.

[01:52:55:22 – 01:53:03:01]
Speaker 3
As if you’re waiting I already did my disk but this would be a good time to clean your disk too.

[01:53:03:01 – 01:53:04:01]
Speaker 1
This is.

[01:53:04:01 – 01:53:04:16]
Speaker 3
We haven’t done that.

[01:53:04:16 – 01:53:07:05]
Speaker 1
A great segue to that.

[01:53:09:14 – 01:53:12:15]
Speaker 1
So what do you like to clean your disk with?

[01:53:14:03 – 01:53:33:19]
Speaker 3
So previous to watching your episode with Red I was mostly a soap and water just clean it off and then I tend to be a stamp wiper usually so I usually find that the process of using that little bit of magic eraser tended to do most of it.

[01:53:35:00 – 01:53:37:13]
Speaker 3
I think you’re talking about the.

[01:53:39:12 – 01:53:41:05]
Speaker 3
Right wipe off for the disk.

[01:53:42:06 – 01:53:43:07]
Speaker 5
The what now.

[01:53:44:09 – 01:53:49:05]
Speaker 3
The ice or purple alcohol and you cleaned your disk off with that is that right.

[01:53:49:05 – 01:53:49:18]
Speaker 1
Yes.

[01:53:50:20 – 01:54:05:06]
Speaker 3
Yeah so I tried that on this one because that sounds a lot nicer than trying to do all the scrubbing and soap so I did do a soap and soap and water wash. But then I did the isopropyl alcohol on it because that might be a thing now that I did.

[01:54:05:06 – 01:54:30:04]
Speaker 1
Well again I like isopropyl alcohol because it’s hard for me to say and I sound funny saying it but I feel like it works well and it doesn’t necessarily harm the stamp slash asterisk. It can and it has with somebody that I did die with and like huh that never happened before. So if you absolutely do nothing

[01:54:30:04 – 01:54:31:15]
Speaker 3
yeah

[01:54:31:15 – 01:54:44:10]
Speaker 1
if you absolutely do not want to ruin your stamp soap and water best bet but I don’t have a stamp on here and I’ve honestly always used isopropyl alcohol.

[01:54:45:22 – 01:55:53:22]
Speaker 1
So during the manufacturing process what I’ve recently learned from an injection mold person is sometimes they have introduced wax into the plastic to help it not stick to the metal components of the injection molding machine. So that is the release agent is that wax particles or whatever from my understanding and yeah the dye doesn’t like to penetrate wax. So wiping it down helps out tremendously and different manufacturers have different plastic like I know castaplast discs are very known for having the release agents make a wax and dye not accepting if you don’t scrub it down pretty well. And then again I’m not like hardcore scrubbing I’m just wiping down gently with that. So anywhere that you want dye to go you’d want to clean off but yeah that’s that’s how I clean my discs.

[01:55:56:07 – 01:56:16:05]
Speaker 1
And if you’re working with harsh chemicals I should have known use a ventilated area if you’re sensitive to that kind of stuff as I work in a closed space. All right good enough.

[01:56:27:11 – 01:56:32:07]
Speaker 1
Neat I’m gonna have to do like a video so you can actually see what that looks like.

[01:56:35:14 – 01:56:38:20]
Speaker 3
I’m bummed I can’t see the detail on it.

[01:56:38:20 – 01:56:39:18]
Speaker 1
I mean yeah.

[01:56:43:12 – 01:56:44:15]
Speaker 1
Yeah you probably still can’t see.

[01:56:45:16 – 01:56:54:08]
Speaker 1
So yeah that’s the hard thing. It’s the hard thing with trying to film something white on that.

[01:56:54:08 – 01:56:55:02]
Speaker 5
All right.

[01:57:00:04 – 01:57:06:18]
Speaker 1
So there’s definitely air bubbles in there but I’m just going to pour it into the bed and we’ll go from there.

[01:57:07:23 – 01:57:08:13]
Speaker 3
Sounds good.

[01:57:16:19 – 01:57:22:14]
Speaker 1
Yeah I don’t know yeah definitely a lot of air bubbles and I don’t know if the vacuum chamber

[01:57:24:05 – 01:57:33:03]
Speaker 1
I mean they were they were in there but I don’t know if they made it more pronounced without like letting it sit. But I also feel like if I did it in a shallower bed

[01:57:34:19 – 01:57:37:04]
Speaker 1
then like the deep bubbles would have came up sooner.

[01:57:40:16 – 01:58:05:09]
Speaker 1
Anyways yeah I wanted to try that and and see but let’s see if it’ll be actually worth investing in vacuum chamber. But all right got the bed it’s not like completely smooth there’s still a little lumps but I’m assuming over time she’ll get down in there.

[01:58:06:17 – 01:58:22:06]
Speaker 3
Yeah and when you pull the yarn over it will like slightly also pull the glue so a little bit is fine. Again I’m just impatient with the super thick stuff but again the last glue I had was like old and starting to get comfy so that also sometimes is a problem.

[01:58:23:07 – 01:58:25:01]
Speaker 3
Yeah so something is mostly selling to be fine.

[01:58:25:01 – 01:58:25:15]
Speaker 1
Okay

[01:58:28:05 – 01:58:30:12]
Speaker 1
all right okay now we’re gonna get to the fun part.

[01:58:30:12 – 01:58:34:17]
Speaker 3
Now we’re gonna do the fun part now we’re gonna do the the kindergarten arts and crafts part.

[01:58:34:17 – 01:58:39:08]
Speaker 1
All right um would you recommend wearing gloves at all?

[01:58:41:10 – 01:59:07:13]
Speaker 3
Um if you have gloves that won’t get eaten by acetone sure um could you like absolutely I feel like this is like a you know like per all the chemical rules out there yeah like probably you should I’m gonna end up probably getting it on my hands um I don’t wear them I just wash it off shortly thereafter and we’ll find out in a couple decades if it’s affected me.

[01:59:09:01 – 01:59:17:00]
Speaker 1
All right well um I guess we’ll be good and yeah I’ll see what you do so I can do it as well

[01:59:17:00 – 01:59:43:19]
Speaker 3
um I’m going to um we have three colors we’re going to do some like alternating back and forth so I’m going to have all of my dyes kind of out and ready um just looking back and forth between those um so we’ll pick a color we’ll all be touching each other so a color order doesn’t matter.

[01:59:59:03 – 02:01:33:20]
Speaker 3
Oh um let’s start with pansy I’m going to start with pansy and um the general the general idea first is we’re going to take a piece of yarn and you want to so I do I should say this I do just straight dip into my acetone mix um it’s never really left stuff behind if you don’t want to do that you can put your acetone in a separate jar and then you know it’s not infecting the rest of your stuff but I just go straight into my microgrid acetone mix um so I am going to see let’s see this over here um dip this in here and then I’m going to have a pair of tweezers ready in my other hand because the other hand will be a little bit drippy um and so I will then pick it up and then we’re going to place it um in our our bed okay um so let me just throw this in here a couple inches and then it’s a little bit drippy so I usually let it sit at the edge for a second and lay you want to have the fringe part facing away from you because I’ll be pulling towards me and I’m going to see which way this is going to go um I’m going to start um laying it with the yarn the pulling side in my right hand because the direction will kind of matter when you pull it so I’m going to do right hand starts on the right side and pulls over to the left side so I’m going to lay this at the very top here

[02:01:35:19 – 02:02:27:11]
Speaker 3
like so and then I’m going to pull it this side kind of towards the center and this is where it gets a little bit tricky I have to move my die to my other side now uh and I have a eye dropper ready um because as you pull sometimes a spot gets too light and so I like to come in behind with a little bit of extra dye in fact sometimes at the beginning um the thing with this is you don’t have to rush like just letting it sit and stop at any point is totally fine and kind of makes it look cooler so sometimes I’ll go through and add a little bit of dye onto the back side of the lash and we’re going to pull this just kind of down and towards you this is too pale so I’m going to add a little bit more a little bit over here we’re just going to pull slower is better

[02:02:29:23 – 02:02:46:14]
Speaker 3
my speed is only limited by my impatience so if it’s going to go faster and we’re just going to pull and kind of pull it towards the inside adding more drops as you as your heart leads you

[02:02:48:06 – 02:02:58:21]
Speaker 3
and the bottom of this is going to be um covered up by the next pedal so this is where the dirty part gets you just got to plop that over to the side okay

[02:02:58:21 – 02:03:00:17]
Speaker 1
okay okay okay

[02:03:03:15 – 02:03:21:02]
Speaker 3
yeah so I have like paper towel or I’ll use old magazines because sometimes the glue soaks through the paper towel and then adheres itself to my um desk so I like something more waxy covered um but yeah have a have a catch of some sort there that you don’t mind getting covered in glue and you can just toss out afterwards

[02:03:21:02 – 02:03:25:12]
Speaker 1
okay I will watch you do the second one

[02:03:25:12 – 02:03:26:15]
Speaker 5
okay

[02:03:26:15 – 02:03:27:22]
Speaker 3
so

[02:03:30:02 – 02:03:48:14]
Speaker 3
I will do iris after this so this one we’re going to do the opposite direction so I’m going to lay it this way so it pulls back towards this center do

[02:03:48:14 – 02:03:51:14]
Speaker 1
you have your bet on a lazy susan

[02:03:51:14 – 02:03:58:03]
Speaker 3
I do yeah well you didn’t it’s like it’s right I did okay

[02:03:58:03 – 02:04:01:03]
Speaker 1
maybe I wasn’t paying attention I’ll grab mine

[02:04:01:03 – 02:04:24:16]
Speaker 3
or at least I know I couldn’t say that I a lot of times think that I told people things and then I’ve forgotten because I’m running on two brain cells so um I just like it for a little bit of changing um I have a nice weighted one and yeah it’s nicer so your choice I can we can do without it does not affect the dying process for this one it

[02:04:24:16 – 02:04:26:05]
Speaker 1
just I feel like would make it easier

[02:04:27:23 – 02:04:28:13]
Speaker 1
potentially

[02:04:28:13 – 02:04:40:17]
Speaker 3
just make sure it’s not like a really loose one because as you pull it might like I don’t know if the friction of the of the glue is stronger than your lazy susan good

[02:04:40:17 – 02:04:43:05]
Speaker 1
good point I guess we’ll see how this all works

[02:04:43:05 – 02:04:49:03]
Speaker 3
okay so I will do this second one here

[02:04:52:06 – 02:04:59:23]
Speaker 3
I mean I just switch hands for this so I’ve got my tweeters in my other hands now but you know you do you

[02:05:01:16 – 02:05:03:01]
Speaker 1
are you ambredecious

[02:05:03:01 – 02:05:04:19]
Speaker 3
I’m going to what’s that

[02:05:04:19 – 02:05:06:06]
Speaker 1
are you ambredecious

[02:05:08:07 – 02:05:18:21]
Speaker 3
oh not only with certain dye techniques so I’m going to lay this one starting partially on my other one for some overlap here maybe like an intro so down

[02:05:21:11 – 02:05:24:05]
Speaker 5
out there and

[02:05:24:05 – 02:05:29:13]
Speaker 1
again you want to have the lashes facing facing away from the direction you’re pulling

[02:05:29:13 – 02:05:37:14]
Speaker 3
yes you want yeah that you want the actual yarn string part to be closest to you fringe fringe away

[02:05:37:14 – 02:05:47:01]
Speaker 1
gotcha how did you discover that you needed to use the eyedropper um

[02:05:47:01 – 02:06:25:13]
Speaker 3
I didn’t the first time and as I was pulling um just sometimes the particular dye mix or how watery the bed is or just so many different factors can change how much glue comes and however it goes like how much sticks and how much sticks left behind um and so I just thought what if I add some more it works out so I have a small problem occurring um I’m going to do this um right here the edge of the bed was a little bit bent and so it’s dipped beneath the glue here so if I pull it it’s going to pull glue over it so I’m just going to pick this up

[02:06:27:01 – 02:06:30:10]
Speaker 3
and put it back on the top and hope that it doesn’t go back down

[02:06:37:07 – 02:07:14:14]
Speaker 3
you can get different shapes like if you pull down versus pulling across and play around with it that way and sometimes sometimes the end will thicken the glue so sometimes I’ll grab the end I don’t like the shape of it and I’ll pull down a little bit on this and once I just want this one to like cover towards the end and then this is going to cover it up so I won’t care how that looks okay

[02:07:14:14 – 02:07:24:20]
Speaker 1
well you can either continue to finish the bed or I can start and you could wash

[02:07:24:20 – 02:07:28:15]
Speaker 3
I’ll definitely get you started

[02:07:28:15 – 02:07:36:17]
Speaker 1
okay I’m nervous I feel like there’s a lot of uh moving parts per se

[02:07:36:17 – 02:08:02:12]
Speaker 3
well here’s here’s the good news though like any glue bed if you don’t like it you can just take paper towel and you just dab it on top and you erase it so not a huge deal it’s the same like that I’ve done that before where I don’t like one so I just erased half of it or if you don’t like it you can go back over it again and when you go back over it kind of takes the old diet at least most of it with it so it’s like a mistake fixer so

[02:08:02:12 – 02:08:11:05]
Speaker 1
gotcha all right I just feel like it’s a lot of thinking okay too easy to go here hand go here I pull this way

[02:08:11:05 – 02:08:16:12]
Speaker 3
yep if you have just like four arms that would be great for this yes

[02:08:16:12 – 02:08:35:11]
Speaker 1
uh sure I’ll uh put it in and see what happens do you okay it goes down I was gonna say do you have any issues with it like staying on the surface it sinks straight on down yeah okay I should get the tweezers out of that hand

[02:08:39:13 – 02:08:56:02]
Speaker 1
it definitely likes to chill okay now the is it going to go like this or like this I can’t remember

[02:08:56:02 – 02:09:06:10]
Speaker 3
so um if you’re gonna you can always switch hands so it just you gotta lay the end down somewhere so for that one um just uh seems great

[02:09:07:11 – 02:09:23:21]
Speaker 3
what hand is this of you so the hand that is holding the string you want that to kind of be more in the center more on the edge and you want the hand with the tweezers to be more in the center and you want to be farther away from you so start okay or that way that’s fine too

[02:09:23:21 – 02:09:26:02]
Speaker 1
we’re sending it

[02:09:26:02 – 02:09:32:17]
Speaker 3
I like to pull towards me but you can also push away from you or turn your disc and do whatever you know

[02:09:32:17 – 02:09:42:00]
Speaker 1
I’m doing this this way because the way it’s on the that you did it it’s just so yeah oh

[02:09:42:00 – 02:09:45:15]
Speaker 3
yeah my thing we have my current videos upside down isn’t it

[02:09:49:10 – 02:09:59:09]
Speaker 1
so I mean I don’t know how to judge if I need more but I’ll just add a little and we’ll send it

[02:09:59:09 – 02:10:12:17]
Speaker 3
if you add more just try not to add it like uh be in the opposite direction that you’re pulling from so don’t add it in front of the lashes add it like at the actual string or on top of the lashes that’s typically it

[02:10:12:17 – 02:10:17:13]
Speaker 1
so I’m just gonna kind of send it yeah

[02:10:17:13 – 02:10:28:21]
Speaker 3
as if you think it’s too pale or you don’t like that one you just do it over on top of it like my first ones did not look so great it definitely took some figuring out

[02:10:30:18 – 02:10:34:16]
Speaker 1
okay okay we’ll uh do the next one

[02:10:37:00 – 02:10:52:01]
Speaker 3
you you might like it better if you pull towards you so that you’re not your arms aren’t in the way as you like push it maybe that’ll help a little bit you know try it sideways up to now doesn’t matter

[02:10:52:01 – 02:11:00:23]
Speaker 1
yeah I feel like whatever is comfortable okay deep area in there

[02:11:00:23 – 02:11:17:23]
Speaker 3
so generally my thought for this particular pattern is whatever direction I did it in which you did yours upside down so it might switch which one but typically when I’m doing it all one direction I switch hands of which one pulls or at least directions of which one pulls

[02:11:19:06 – 02:11:23:05]
Speaker 3
yeah looks good

[02:11:29:02 – 02:11:35:15]
Speaker 1
I feel like I want to get the pipette out of there so I don’t accidentally drop anything

[02:11:41:01 – 02:11:46:23]
Speaker 3
yeah so like right about here I would start adding like a couple extra drops just because that whole top looks a little pale

[02:11:49:06 – 02:11:58:03]
Speaker 3
let’s put it right on top of like the lashy part a little bit you want it to like start to like flow off the end of it to the top yeah yeah

[02:12:02:03 – 02:12:07:04]
Speaker 1
please it’s so hard it’s not hard it’s just yeah

[02:12:07:04 – 02:12:16:18]
Speaker 3
it’s a different sort of coordination like it’s not it’s not the it’s like learning to drive a manual transmission car or something there’s a lot of more limbs involved

[02:12:16:18 – 02:12:21:23]
Speaker 1
yes okay okay I guess I mean

[02:12:21:23 – 02:12:24:07]
Speaker 3
shape wise that looks really good

[02:12:25:15 – 02:12:25:21]
Speaker 3
okay

[02:12:27:11 – 02:12:51:15]
Speaker 3
and so we just keep doing that and so we’re just gonna I’m gonna just alternate colors so I think I haven’t used um royal yet so that’s what I would do next and we’ll just keep going back and forth so left right left right just pulling towards the center and then when you get to the end it’s just sometimes you fake it you kind of like put it down and there’s no room to really pull so you kind of make up the shape of it so that’s mostly it

[02:12:51:15 – 02:13:03:11]
Speaker 1
what I’ve noticed is I think I need to add more dye as I go because yeah yours is more bolder mine’s a little whimsically

[02:13:05:15 – 02:13:09:03]
Speaker 3
it’s it’s just as lovely and delicate yes

[02:13:09:03 – 02:13:19:08]
Speaker 1
so how many times have you done this

[02:13:21:01 – 02:13:39:21]
Speaker 3
like the particular technique yeah probably a couple dozen it’s definitely like not my top thing that I’ve done um sometimes it’s more appreciated by the dyers than the people wanting to buy and throw the discs depending on the pattern so

[02:14:05:08 – 02:14:07:07]
Speaker 1
you know things are getting serious when we get quiet

[02:14:07:07 – 02:14:10:03]
Speaker 3
yeah a lot of concentration

[02:14:13:21 – 02:14:23:08]
Speaker 1
do you find doing it uh with one hand versus the other easier because I feel like if I have the pipette in my right hand it seems easier

[02:14:23:08 – 02:14:29:23]
Speaker 3
yeah I mean I’m right-handed so I wish I had just two right hands at this point

[02:14:34:07 – 02:14:44:12]
Speaker 3
but yeah I think I feel like the the pipette seems like the more dangerous part like the part where I could go everywhere so it does seem easier to pull with either hand

[02:14:44:12 – 02:15:11:21]
Speaker 1
yeah it’s a very very unique pattern that you get with this like I’ve never seen anything like it before how how was your experiments with it using the dye on the actual disc itself how how was your experiments with it using the dye on the actual disc itself

[02:15:14:18 – 02:15:20:21]
Speaker 3
um I didn’t do a lot of it because I had got into the the white glue

[02:15:23:02 – 02:15:45:17]
Speaker 3
first I think I did and I didn’t really like a lot what I did but again I didn’t go very deep into it so I think I tried um some detergent mixes with it because it was a bit thicker um and the yarn that I used it just it kind of just looked like a kindergarten arts and crafts project so it didn’t seem like cool like I mean the technique was fun but it wasn’t

[02:15:46:23 – 02:16:00:16]
Speaker 3
it seemed like a whole lot of work for not anything that you could just do you know putting the design out of way so oops

[02:16:00:16 – 02:16:05:19]
Speaker 1
have you ever dropped your yarn in the bed completely like I just have oh yeah

[02:16:05:19 – 02:16:08:06]
Speaker 3
oh yeah oh yeah luckily

[02:16:08:06 – 02:16:08:23]
Speaker 1
I can still pull

[02:16:13:11 – 02:16:17:20]
Speaker 3
yeah this is the personal preference of how much extra yarn you have for gases like that

[02:16:17:20 – 02:16:18:18]
Speaker 5
yeah

[02:16:20:18 – 02:16:21:05]
Speaker 5
huh

[02:16:23:19 – 02:16:31:11]
Speaker 3
and if you like dropped it on it and it messed your pattern up it’s like I said you just take a new piece of yarn you just start at the top and just go back over it

[02:16:43:03 – 02:16:56:22]
Speaker 1
also I feel like because I mixed it up today that the mixes are still a bit grainy so I see like the dye in the bed is a bit grainy

[02:16:59:10 – 02:17:02:22]
Speaker 3
I’ve got a little bit but that’s why I’m at home

[02:17:04:03 – 02:17:29:22]
Speaker 3
before we were recording um but I have a couple blues that um are just grainy whenever I do any sort of acetone mix and so I don’t like them for this so like for me personally I can’t get flag blue and bright blue to not be a little bit grainy and comfy and so I don’t use them for this technique a lot just because it does tend to like blur it and get a little chunky

[02:17:34:03 – 02:18:20:13]
Speaker 3
or um sometimes I gotta be careful or tweak my what is it um I call it the swamp color um because it smells disgusting the aquatic green yes it’s I’m pretty sure they did like swamp extract or something to like get that color because just it smells so bad um but that one and when I do glue bags it like disperses a lot so the lines aren’t as crisp inside sometimes I can use it if I can play with it a little bit but some of my mixes just I don’t know the day or my chaos mixing um I put it in a glue bag like a clear glue bag and it just spreads so much and so once I don’t like the dyes that do that for this method

[02:18:21:17 – 02:18:25:23]
Speaker 3
because they tend to ruin the the detail

[02:18:28:14 – 02:18:32:13]
Speaker 1
what I’m noticing with mine is I don’t know if you can see

[02:18:34:01 – 02:18:49:01]
Speaker 1
right when I first place it and I drag it it seems like there’s not a lot of dye but I add dye right away and I drag it and it seems to be fine but it’s like the initial spot where the yarn laid down isn’t as saturated

[02:18:50:05 – 02:19:06:20]
Speaker 3
let’s see um so things I would think of is how long do you let it sit in that one spot and then do you add more dye on top of it before you drag I have not looked up in a second to see what

[02:19:06:20 – 02:19:08:15]
Speaker 1
kind of teacher are you I’m just kidding

[02:19:10:12 – 02:19:18:09]
Speaker 1
I’m gonna let it sit for a little bit longer and I have been putting dye

[02:19:20:14 – 02:19:22:05]
Speaker 1
right on there

[02:19:27:18 – 02:19:36:18]
Speaker 3
you just try like move it you know just a couple millimeters and then start to add a couple couple of I don’t know like trying or something maybe

[02:19:39:23 – 02:19:56:03]
Speaker 3
also just sometimes pulling it a smidge and then stopping because the longer you move it and then stop if you watch it really closely you’ll see this cool little like wave of dye come off of it as you slowly slowly slowly pull

[02:20:33:23 – 02:20:37:14]
Speaker 1
So as you get down the stalk of the flower,

[02:20:38:15 – 02:20:46:10]
Speaker 1
it seems like maybe mine just isn’t so saturated, but the overlapping colors are starting to mix together.

[02:20:49:06 – 02:20:52:04]
Speaker 3
I find that tends to happen with a little too dry.

[02:20:53:15 – 02:21:02:00]
Speaker 3
So like there’s just not enough dye being put on top because the technique, the reason that it’s usually not blending that you get these cool layers because it does,

[02:21:03:04 – 02:21:12:02]
Speaker 3
that top layer of dye on the glue does like stick to the bottom of the yarn. So like the longer you’re using the yarn,

[02:21:13:03 – 02:21:21:07]
Speaker 3
which should be a huge issue because using short petals and the less concentration of dye you’re adding on top does seem to pop through a little bit.

[02:21:48:16 – 02:21:51:05]
Speaker 1
Yeah, having two right hands or something would be really helpful.

[02:21:52:07 – 02:21:52:14]
Speaker 5
Yeah.

[02:22:11:15 – 02:22:14:05]
Speaker 1
Have you noticed certain colors act slightly different?

[02:22:16:20 – 02:22:22:06]
Speaker 1
Like I don’t know, they just move differently compared to other colors.

[02:22:23:16 – 02:22:36:14]
Speaker 3
Not beyond the ones that I’ve mentioned, the ones that like the actual dye consistency seems for me like a little extra gritty or like I said, there’s just some dyes that act different.

[02:22:38:01 – 02:22:52:04]
Speaker 3
Like I have some reds and I do a clear glue bread, like you put it down and it ends up like an inch beyond where you actually put it. And I have some blues that shrink. So you place it and then it ends up kind of collapsing in on itself over time.

[02:22:53:13 – 02:23:00:19]
Speaker 3
So there’ll be like a little bit of that, but I, it’s not as dramatic. It seems to me when you do like regular, so to speak, clear glue bed stuff.

[02:23:02:03 – 02:23:07:04]
Speaker 1
That last pull I did, I got it pretty, pretty wet and it seemed to help.

[02:23:07:04 – 02:23:09:13]
Speaker 3
So oh yeah, that looks really good.

[02:23:09:13 – 02:23:10:05]
Speaker 5
Yeah.

[02:23:14:08 – 02:23:29:01]
Speaker 3
Is that yours look a lot like my first ones because it does just take a little bit to figure out like how much dye can you add when to add it? It just takes, it just takes extra time. We’ve got a whole skein of yarn now.

[02:23:29:01 – 02:23:32:15]
Speaker 1
Yes. Some may call this an art form.

[02:23:43:03 – 02:23:49:23]
Speaker 1
So I mean, it’s really kind of subjective, but how far do you go with the petals or are you done with your bed?

[02:23:52:15 – 02:24:10:17]
Speaker 3
I’m going to do two more. So I’m going to do one and then like a fake dummy one. I think I’m going to lay this one and see how it looks, but I usually for this one, I don’t like, you can make your last one have the tail look nice, but I kind of like to look like it’s going off the bed a little bit more.

[02:24:13:07 – 02:24:15:00]
Speaker 2
So I did this on the wrong side.

[02:24:19:20 – 02:24:27:09]
Speaker 3
I’m using a very high, I can’t talk and think at the same time.

[02:24:29:12 – 02:24:58:00]
Speaker 3
I have a very tall edge pan because I’m using a glass deep dish pie pan because that is what I had in my kitchen when I started dying. It was stealing stuff from everywhere in the house. So at the end, like I will sometimes have to put my tutors down here at a lower level so that it’s pulling flat and not up in the air so that it drags a little bit farther

[02:24:59:22 – 02:25:06:12]
Speaker 3
towards the actual glue bed itself. I can show you once I add a little more dye.

[02:25:14:11 – 02:25:26:05]
Speaker 3
So because I’m getting a problem where my edge is so high, like above the surface of the bed that I will take my tweezers down here and just put it at the level of the bed.

[02:25:27:17 – 02:25:34:06]
Speaker 3
So that it’s pulling closer towards the actual edge. And so you’re not getting that white space right at the edge.

[02:25:34:06 – 02:25:35:11]
Speaker 1
Gotcha.

[02:25:35:11 – 02:25:50:12]
Speaker 3
I’m having one where I just don’t like this one. So I think I’m going to redo this. I did not get enough dye at the edge.

[02:25:52:21 – 02:25:54:05]
Speaker 3
So we just don’t need it.

[02:25:55:11 – 02:25:56:08]
Speaker 2
This is serious.

[02:26:16:12 – 02:26:17:11]
Speaker 1
So what did you just do?

[02:26:19:09 – 02:26:33:09]
Speaker 3
So I started this blue panel right here. Mail is nipping. I, I glued myself some yarn and then had to come to peace. That was on my bed. I started this blue one and I did not put enough dye at the beginning.

[02:26:34:10 – 02:26:43:21]
Speaker 3
And so I’m just not liking it. So I just threw it back a little bit and then I just pulled it off and it’s going to start with a fresh piece of yarn.

[02:26:44:22 – 02:26:45:09]
Speaker 1
Gotcha.

[02:26:50:20 – 02:26:56:04]
Speaker 1
Have you tried of just laying a dry strip of yarn then putting the dye on top?

[02:26:59:09 – 02:27:03:10]
Speaker 3
I think so. I think it just tends to wipe it like it’s like an eraser.

[02:27:03:10 – 02:27:06:05]
Speaker 5
Gotcha.

[02:27:09:05 – 02:27:16:06]
Speaker 1
Okay. I need a third arm for this last part because you need to pull, drop dye on, but also keep the yarn below.

[02:27:18:07 – 02:27:36:14]
Speaker 3
That’s where the second set of tweezers would come in handy. And also if you have a short piece of yarn that can come in handy because you can just put both ends in the bed and then use the tweezers to pull it along.

[02:27:43:16 – 02:28:01:19]
Speaker 3
And you can, so within that color, you can pick up and lay it down. So I just had an issue where I started, got too far right. So I’m just going to pick my yarn up and rewind a minute, a little centimeter here and then start over again.

[02:28:02:22 – 02:28:05:02]
Speaker 3
And it doesn’t seem to mind too much for that.

[02:28:08:07 – 02:28:19:13]
Speaker 1
Okay. I mean, for a first try, I’m not complaining. I can, you can definitely see as I go along that it gets more older because I’m still needing more dye.

[02:28:24:13 – 02:28:32:00]
Speaker 1
And I feel like I could have used more width because I felt like I was, I’m pretty narrow

[02:28:33:02 – 02:28:35:05]
Speaker 1
compared to what you did. Like you used,

[02:28:35:05 – 02:28:40:15]
Speaker 3
you’ll have good white space though, on your desk. I like some white space on the outside.

[02:28:40:15 – 02:28:47:21]
Speaker 1
So yes. I feel like that is the plate of a dyer that you have a white disc that you must cover the entire area with color.

[02:28:51:08 – 02:29:05:18]
Speaker 3
If anything, I think mine’s a little wide. Like I think I would have liked and I could still, I might pull a paper towel out and just fudge these edges a bit and erase them. I’ll switch. I’m going to do one more, I think.

[02:29:06:20 – 02:29:08:17]
Speaker 3
Excuse my light.

[02:29:10:03 – 02:29:10:19]
Speaker 3
Is that a timer?

[02:29:11:20 – 02:29:12:00]
Speaker 1
Nice.

[02:29:13:20 – 02:29:25:05]
Speaker 3
It’s like a motion detector. I don’t know how to, uh, okay. I’m going to do one more cuddle here with the pansy.

[02:29:27:11 – 02:29:37:15]
Speaker 3
And kind of like you, I mean, you had that moment where your, your yarn fell, like sometimes I’ll just stop and I’ll just put my yarn down. I’m like, it’s fine. That’s what I’m about to do for this one.

[02:29:38:17 – 02:29:41:17]
Speaker 3
Because I do need three sheets.

[02:29:43:01 – 02:29:46:13]
Speaker 1
This is where you need to die with like a friend or a partner.

[02:29:46:13 – 02:29:57:10]
Speaker 3
Like doubles, doubles dying. There’s

[02:29:57:10 – 02:29:59:07]
Speaker 1
always one person carrying the team anyways.

[02:30:04:00 – 02:30:07:07]
Speaker 3
Okay. Yeah. So I’m just going to let that sit there for a second so I can.

[02:30:09:12 – 02:30:10:12]
Speaker 3
Yeah.

[02:30:12:20 – 02:30:14:22]
Speaker 2
I’d

[02:30:14:22 – 02:30:20:09]
Speaker 1
be very curious to try different, um, different beds with this method.

[02:30:25:13 – 02:30:33:04]
Speaker 1
Like a, yeah, a flowtrol or a thinner lotion just to see how, how it reacts.

[02:30:34:14 – 02:30:34:21]
Speaker 3
Yeah.

[02:30:36:01 – 02:30:41:01]
Speaker 3
I, I, I feel like if I had to like make guesses, I feel like flowtrol could really work well.

[02:30:42:21 – 02:30:44:11]
Speaker 1
Yes. Um,

[02:30:46:00 – 02:30:54:09]
Speaker 1
unintentionally you can get cells with flowtrol pretty easy. Like cells just form in general, even without any oil.

[02:30:55:21 – 02:30:56:06]
Speaker 1
Um,

[02:30:58:00 – 02:31:05:05]
Speaker 1
so I feel like flowtrol will get the cells and depending on how fast or slow you work, you get more or less cells.

[02:31:06:12 – 02:31:18:01]
Speaker 1
Um, I’d be very curious with the lotion of like the consistency that red has for his lotion. Um, which I still have some leftover that I may try.

[02:31:19:14 – 02:31:20:13]
Speaker 1
But yeah,

[02:31:21:13 – 02:31:22:05]
Speaker 1
um,

[02:31:23:10 – 02:31:26:21]
Speaker 1
I do see some bubbles coming to the surface and they are popping,

[02:31:28:05 – 02:31:32:00]
Speaker 1
which I feel like in general bubbles are fine because they’re always going to be there anyways.

[02:31:33:12 – 02:31:33:23]
Speaker 1
Uh,

[02:31:35:03 – 02:31:43:15]
Speaker 1
but if you want to pop the bubbles two ways through, there’s a couple of ways. One you can use heat a torch.

[02:31:44:17 – 02:31:56:15]
Speaker 1
Uh, another way that I haven’t tried yet is misting the bed with, I think it was either isopropyl alcohol or denatured alcohol. And that breaks the surface tension.

[02:31:56:15 – 02:31:59:08]
Speaker 3
I got my denatured sprayer in here.

[02:31:59:08 – 02:32:00:15]
Speaker 1
Is that what you use?

[02:32:02:00 – 02:32:34:06]
Speaker 3
I usually, yeah, I’ll do it. Um, I haven’t done it on this. Mine didn’t have a lot of bubbles, so I haven’t tried it on white. Um, but I do it with my clear glue buds. If there’s a lot of bubbles, I’ll spray it. And then I also have a little squirty guy full of denatured and I have just a little pin that sits on the top and I’ll just do this and I’ll do individual pop sometimes. There’s like not too many of them, but I also don’t have a torch. So if I had fire, I might use it.

[02:32:34:06 – 02:32:38:00]
Speaker 1
Fire can be dangerous because it can affect the bed.

[02:32:39:07 – 02:32:46:15]
Speaker 1
Um, I’ve noticed where I’ve torched something on a clear glue that the dye kind of shrinks up in that spot.

[02:32:47:21 – 02:32:52:03]
Speaker 1
Um, so you gotta be careful with that, but I’ve never done it on white glue. So let’s see how that goes.

[02:32:54:07 – 02:33:04:04]
Speaker 3
Yeah, I would, I would probably do it before I tried to put dye on and yeah, and maybe like scrape off any like crunchy bits, but

[02:33:04:04 – 02:33:10:09]
Speaker 1
yeah, I mean you just want to go over it fast enough to not cook the glue.

[02:33:12:05 – 02:33:17:17]
Speaker 1
We don’t want to creme brulee, but okay.

[02:33:22:00 – 02:33:24:14]
Speaker 3
And that’s it. The end. And now you put your disk in.

[02:33:25:21 – 02:33:32:03]
Speaker 1
All right. Well, you guys can compare beds, but we’ll, uh, how do you put your desk in the bed?

[02:33:35:03 – 02:33:36:09]
Speaker 3
Uh, the standard.

[02:33:37:16 – 02:33:55:14]
Speaker 3
I, I liked it. I have a little bit of free space, so I tend to just do the, I don’t know. Is there other ways of doing it? I don’t think people use tape or stuff like that, but that always, I haven’t tried that one time in my tape fall off. So I’m not doing that again.

[02:33:55:14 – 02:33:55:19]
Speaker 5
Yeah.

[02:33:56:22 – 02:34:07:14]
Speaker 3
So I’m going to eye it because, uh, Oh, actually I’m gonna fix one thing. I like fix this blue bit right here.

[02:34:11:10 – 02:34:13:17]
Speaker 1
So is that paper towel paper?

[02:34:14:22 – 02:34:25:11]
Speaker 3
Paper towel. So I’m just soaking up that one blue guy and just pulling it off. This is my role of you die eraser.

[02:34:25:11 – 02:34:29:06]
Speaker 1
Patent pending.

[02:34:30:14 – 02:34:40:13]
Speaker 3
You can probably market it and get more money for it that way, right? This is my role as specialty, uh, glue bed die eraser.

[02:34:40:13 – 02:34:43:07]
Speaker 1
Yes. It only works in the bed, not the desk, but yes.

[02:34:43:07 – 02:35:18:14]
Speaker 3
There’s a lot of like, I like lies in deceit that you can do with this one. Um, so sometimes like right here, uh, I don’t know if you can see, there’s like a little dot of glue where my, I actually, I placed a drop of glue past the glasses. So it just, it doesn’t fit with the lines. You know, it’s just too blobby. So I’ll take like a very thin pair of tweezers and just go in sometimes and like put fake lines in just to like get the, get the flow back.

[02:35:19:21 – 02:35:47:17]
Speaker 3
Um, my overlapping circle of ones, you have to like fake the end and like rego back over stuff and kind of like tuck edges in. So I use very tiny pieces of yarn and like fake streaks, fake streaks. I mean, there are streaks, but like, it’s not, it’s an illusion. It’s not like the original one. So that looks good. So yeah, I will put this in. I personally like mine a little bit of an angle.

[02:35:49:04 – 02:35:49:05]
Speaker 3
So

[02:35:49:05 – 02:35:56:03]
(Inaudible)

[02:36:17:01 – 02:36:20:09]
Speaker 1
All right. So it looks like you went at a slight angle so you don’t go straight down.

[02:36:22:11 – 02:36:48:21]
Speaker 3
Um, I, I don’t go straight down. This disc was a little bit flat, especially. So sometimes with domey discs, I’ll be a little less cautious, um, like for like zones or something like that, super flat. It definitely will give a nice deep bed. And depending on the pattern, like for this, if it was flat, I would start on the white spot actually is to get that the end in a white spot. So I’m not going to distort the dye and kind of roll it in.

[02:36:48:21 – 02:36:49:17]
Speaker 1
Yeah.

[02:36:51:06 – 02:37:07:23]
Speaker 1
No, I’ve, um, I’ve noticed, so I like to put it on an angle to make sure I don’t trap any air bubbles under or flat or flight plate. But I also have to, I’ve noticed and you gotta be careful that when you put it at an angle, it can kind of shift everything to one side.

[02:37:09:11 – 02:37:20:17]
Speaker 1
So just be careful that if you wanted something exactly centered and you putting on an angle, you gotta make sure you can jigger it and compensate for that. Um, but yeah,

[02:37:20:17 – 02:37:35:11]
Speaker 3
I’m doing these beds. They won’t be symmetric when I do it. And so it’ll be one side with more white space. So I’ll start on the opposite side to like push it, or I’ll start at the very bottom because the top edge has that little bit without a little pedally bits.

[02:37:36:20 – 02:37:47:11]
Speaker 1
All right. All right. Do you, well, I’m going to push, do you push yours down until it gets to the rim? If it’s like a domey disc.

[02:37:48:19 – 02:37:49:13]
Speaker 3
I do. Yeah.

[02:37:49:13 – 02:37:50:01]
Speaker 1
Okay.

[02:37:50:01 – 02:38:11:01]
Speaker 3
With, with caution, um, like sometimes with clear disc, you can kind of like watch what’s happening and learn a little bit of how much you can push before it starts breaking apart or stretching too much. But this is not so fine detailed of a thing where a little bit of stretching or distortion is going to bother it really.

[02:38:11:01 – 02:38:11:09]
Speaker 1
So,

[02:38:11:09 – 02:38:17:23]
Speaker 1
we just plopped our discs in and we’re going to let them sit for two hours?

[02:38:17:23 – 02:38:18:22]
Speaker 3
Question mark?

[02:38:20:10 – 02:38:20:15]
Speaker 1
Okay.

[02:38:21:16 – 02:38:35:05]
Speaker 1
Under some heat, I’m going to use a dehydrator. I’m going to use my dehydrator at about 120 degrees Fahrenheit and I’m going to leave it in there for two hours and, uh, you will just do what you normally do with your heat lamp.

[02:38:36:23 – 02:39:03:12]
Speaker 1
Recommend using heat, um, to get saturation, the best saturation, um, as well as speed. So if you don’t use heat, let us know how that works out because I don’t think any of us have tried it that way and, um, I’m curious. So, well, thank you very much for teaching me this portion. Um, I’m excited to see how it turned out and I’m excited to show you how it turned out. Hopefully.

[02:39:05:01 – 02:39:07:16]
Speaker 3
I’m looking forward to it. I think it’s going to be good.

[02:39:07:16 – 02:39:27:20]
Speaker 1
I just pulled this out of the dehydrator and you’re going to take a first look with my first look. I’m super excited. I’m very curious. I’ve never actually died a disc using the white glue bed method. So I’m very curious to see how this, uh, works. But without further ado, let’s do the reveal.

[02:39:30:06 – 02:39:31:14]
Speaker 1
What do we get?

[02:39:32:21 – 02:39:36:01]
Speaker 1
That is really stuck on there. Holy cows.

[02:39:37:05 – 02:39:38:04]
Speaker 1
Holy cows.

[02:39:40:01 – 02:39:42:15]
Speaker 1
It’s, it’s glued on there. Basically.

[02:39:42:15 – 02:39:43:05]
Speaker 2
Wow.

[02:39:45:01 – 02:39:48:21]
Speaker 1
I don’t think I’ve ever had something with that much suction. I don’t think I’ve ever had. I had something with that much suction.

[02:39:50:06 – 02:39:52:16]
Speaker 1
And with the dehydrator left a little, uh,

[02:39:53:22 – 02:40:03:20]
Speaker 1
dried skin layer. You know how you do the clear or white glue in your hands and you peel it off. It’s basically what happened here, but sick.

[02:40:04:20 – 02:40:05:19]
Speaker 1
Look at that.

[02:40:07:01 – 02:40:07:09]
Speaker 1
Wow.

[02:40:08:10 – 02:40:18:19]
Speaker 1
I’m actually impressed how well the saturation is and it’s not like muddy and it transferred really well.

[02:40:20:00 – 02:40:20:05]
Speaker 1
Wow.

[02:40:22:07 – 02:40:24:15]
Speaker 1
Wow. I’m actually honestly really impressed.

[02:40:26:04 – 02:40:44:20]
Speaker 1
Uh, I don’t know if she has the same issues with getting that dried skin, but let me go clean this little, uh, flap of dried glue up and I’ll be back to show you the final results. But I’m super excited.

[02:40:44:20 – 02:40:58:09]
Speaker 1
there we go. I’m actually honestly impressed the saturation and clarity that I got with basically putting acetone on top of white glue. And again, I’ve never done that method before.

[02:40:58:09 – 02:41:16:05]
Speaker 1
Again, you could tell that I got better at it as I went down. On the top, I feel like I didn’t use enough dye on the actual yarn. But I got the hang of it as I got down there as well. And it is definitely an art form to get that specific pattern.

[02:41:17:18 – 02:41:39:15]
Speaker 1
But you will get the hang of it and there’s way more different patterns that you can do with this. I wanted to try this one because it was like one of the first patterns that I saw her do. And honestly, I am super happy with how it turned out. Again, another great teacher. But now, let’s go check out her reaction and see what she thinks and reveal our discs.

[02:41:42:15 – 02:42:00:09]
Speaker 1
So we’re back. It’s actually the next day. I let my disc sit for two hours and you guys already saw a review and I give the option to guests to see if they want to see it before we film and you were a little impatient. So you did actually see this disc,

[02:42:01:10 – 02:42:03:02]
Speaker 1
but I want to see yours.

[02:42:04:11 – 02:42:06:03]
Speaker 3
Okay, here we go.

[02:42:07:23 – 02:42:08:19]
Speaker 3
Here she is.

[02:42:08:19 – 02:42:11:07]
Speaker 1
Okay, nice, nice.

[02:42:11:07 – 02:42:12:23]
Speaker 1
But what do you think of it?

[02:42:12:23 – 02:42:17:01]
Speaker 3
It is about what I expected. I’m

[02:42:17:01 – 02:42:19:16]
Speaker 3
happy with this. This is good.

[02:42:19:16 – 02:42:28:19]
Speaker 3
Yeah, I was noticing that our dark purples were different when I saw yours first slide.

[02:42:30:05 – 02:42:32:18]
Speaker 1
Which it’s also, that is interesting.

[02:42:33:22 – 02:42:38:23]
Speaker 1
So I’ll review mine again. Ooh, look at that. Yay!

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Speaker 1
Again, honestly,

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Speaker 1
I’ve never done a white glue bed, I think, if I remember correctly. And I am impressed that one, the saturation that I was able to get was just dropping acetone on top.

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Speaker 1
And two, the sharpness. It is nearly equivalent to a clear glue bed.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. But you can see that I was getting more dye and saturation as I went on, even though this does look cool where you have the initial place where you put the yarn, then you drag, which does look like, it looks like a specific flower that I can’t think the name of.

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Speaker 1
Which even if he says the name, you wouldn’t know what it is.

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Speaker 3
I have one in mind, and I can’t think what it’s called either. Yeah.

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Speaker 3
Yeah, I love all this, kind of like different stages of it. I think there’s actually kind of a neat representation of the different kind of patterns you can get because one thing with adding more saturation is you get more of those ridges. So it kind of reminds me more of those

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Speaker 3
like chicken of the woods mushrooms or something look, or the top ones where you don’t add as much, you get more of the actual lines through it.

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Speaker 1
Yeah.

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Speaker 3
And then there’s kind of like striations through it. So kind of like some different variations you can get in the patterns there. So I like that one. I love like how the top ones kind of look like they’re dissipating in the air a little bit.

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Speaker 1
Yeah.

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Speaker 3
That looks great.

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Speaker 1
What I’ve noticed is again, the more saturation than as you drag it, you don’t, but you get more visible streaks.

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Speaker 2
Yeah.

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Speaker 1
It can be cool. Here is I think like a good middle ground of good saturation and streaks.

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Speaker 1
But I also feel like when I added more dye, you didn’t get as much to find streaks and you get more like you said of that mushroom look.

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Speaker 1
And the placing it either in front or behind the lashes kind of makes a difference to front behind on the lashes. I feel like makes a difference.

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Speaker 3
Yeah, you definitely get more of that like that arching like ridge if you put it more in front of the lashes.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. Like here,

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Speaker 1
I put it, laid it down and I put it on the lashes,

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Speaker 1
but I feel like it didn’t like,

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Speaker 1
it went past it and that’s why it looks, you know, like a normal blue bed would be when you drop the dye on there and it didn’t drag that part. So yeah.

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Speaker 3
Yeah.

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Speaker 1
But yeah, overall I’m happy.

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Speaker 3
It depends on the colors as far to like of just how they move. Cause I think like, I like the, my version of Iris here is really this like darker purple and it just, it’s just a really solid color for this because you can see I didn’t have to add a lot of extra drops, but it still gave a little bit more of that line look while also being darker. You can see like a little addition right there and right there.

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Speaker 1
Yeah.

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Speaker 1
I mean, maybe my Iris isn’t as dark, but it gets there once I have the more saturation on the bottom.

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Speaker 3
Oh yeah.

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Speaker 1
Compared to the top.

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Speaker 1
Like those two are pretty much the same almost.

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Speaker 5
Yeah.

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Speaker 1
But yeah, overall I’m,

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Speaker 1
I am super happy with it for my first time.

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Speaker 2
Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 1
And I think you did a good job of teaching.

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Speaker 1
I don’t,

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Speaker 1
it’s also kind of good with this method is you don’t necessarily see the air bubbles cause everything is just so organic. Even if there is, it kind of blends in. Like there was one small one right there, but you can barely tell.

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Speaker 3
Did you find that after, you’re seeing air bubbles still after you had like swiped over the area once or is it more air bubbles before you got to the dying part?

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Speaker 1
Yes.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. Definitely letting your mixture sit after you do any mixing.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. Letting it sit or I would have done the vacuum chamber for a longer time for the air bubbles to get out or do it when it was in the bed. So it was a shallower pan for the air bubbles to escape. So they didn’t have to travel as far,

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Speaker 1
but yeah, I’m super excited for this.

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Speaker 1
And I hope you guys learned something as well. And I want you guys to try this method and see what you come up with. I know she has different patterns of this yarn technique as well.

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Speaker 1
Do you have any names of what you would call this pattern or the other patterns that you have?

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Speaker 3
I think when I started, I started with something kind of similar to this pattern. And I think I called it, yeah, like petals or I called it like a watercolor technique because some of them, like with your top ones, especially just had that very like watery look to it. So yeah, I’ve called it like watercolor petals or something like that. I think I had another name, but now I can’t think of it. Nothing stuck just because as I did different shapes, I was like, oh, that’s not really pedally. So yeah, I did one that I actually, oh gosh, it was so complicated. I actually, it was a braid that I did. And there’s so much like layering of like swiping to make it look like it tucked under itself. And that didn’t really look like watercolor petals either. So yeah, it was kind of watercolor-y stuff. I guess I kind of liked that. I just called it like the yard pulling technique.

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Speaker 1
Yeah, I think I remember you mentioning that braid technique where you had to swipe over, use your dye eraser method to do something to make it look right, which yeah, very impressive.

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Speaker 3
I was gonna say, yeah, the pinwheel one is a little,

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Speaker 3
has only a little bit of live interceptions. This one’s really kind of old and faded, but this one, you only have to do one little tuck,

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Speaker 3
but there was one you can find on my Instagram that actually just looks like a hair braid. Like it’s a three strand braid that’s going down and that was using this technique. And that one was a lot of work.

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Speaker 3
A lot of re-going over things.

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Speaker 1
Do you have any other ideas for different patterns that you wanna try?

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Speaker 3
I do, I gotta like figure out a rig though. I was gonna ask you actually, so when I do this, I tend to get messy and there’s usually like dye in my hands. Did you, how are your hands after? Did you have a lot of, a

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Speaker 1
lot of mess on your hands? Not at all, even after cleaning and I didn’t wear any gloves, which was surprising.

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Speaker 3
That’s impressive.

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Speaker 1
One thing that I’m curious with you with using your heat lamp versus the dehydrator. So I had about like a half inch of open area around the disc and it was basically a dried glue skin layer around the disc.

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Speaker 3
Interesting.

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Speaker 1
You’ll see it in the video when I post it and I share it with you, but yeah, it basically, an entire dry skin was stuck to the edge of the disc to the outside of the bed. So it was just like a solid piece of glue around the disc.

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Speaker 3
Hard or still flexy?

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Speaker 1
I mean, it was still a little flexible, but it was dried and yeah.

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Speaker 3
Yeah, I do get like definitely a skin and it’s not just like, I think it definitely like accelerates a little bit for sitting there.

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Speaker 3
This one I actually had to leave after my house after an hour. I did not want to leave a heat lamp on. So this one sat for an hour under heat and then just sat there maybe for like two more hours after that with no heat. So it ended up being a little bit different than I had planned, but I had to end up leaving.

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Speaker 3
So in mine, I didn’t have enough space. Actually had a little bit of a low bed this time and it worked out, but yeah, usually I do have more space and it just is that skin. It usually peels off fairly well. It doesn’t peel as well as clear glue,

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Speaker 3
but it wasn’t hard or anything.

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Speaker 1
So I felt like the white glue peeled off and cleaned a lot easier than clear glue.

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Speaker 3
Really?

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Speaker 1
Yeah.

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Speaker 3
Okay.

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Speaker 1
One thing that I still want to try is to wrap the bed in like foil or some sort of wrap so it keeps the moisture in so it doesn’t dry out.

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Speaker 5
Mm.

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Speaker 1
Because I know other dyers that do that and it’s way easier to clean either a clear glue bed or something like that because it doesn’t dry out and you don’t have to scrub as hard.

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Speaker 1
So definitely want to try that at some point in time, which I always keep forgetting to do.

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Speaker 3
Yeah, the one thing about white glue that irritates me, but it’s because I’m a little bit lazy is like if you, so my clean up technique for clear glue is like I’ll scrape it out with like a spatula, but then I usually just like let, if I’m not doing like a whole bunch back to back, I’ll just let that sit and I’ll just peel it out so that I’m not like washing glue down my like sink or something like a white old stuff. But the white glue you can’t do that with. So it does not peel when it’s dry, at least mine doesn’t, it is like solid and hard. So I have to like soak it or actually like wash it right then so I’m just so you should just like, yeah, I’ll just leave the dish, peel it later, but it’s a little bit more high maintenance.

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Speaker 1
I honestly for like a clear glue bed, I never let the glue sit on the disc mainly because I don’t want any other, when I clean it off with whatever I use to clean it off with like a squeegee, sometimes the color spreads across and goes in places that I don’t necessarily want it. And I didn’t want it to sit in one spot to to accurately dye it, but.

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Speaker 3
Yeah, that part I’ll clean the disc, but the bed itself, like I’ll scrape most of the glue out. Yeah.

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Speaker 1
Okay, the bed, yes, not on the disc. Gotcha.

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Speaker 3
No, not on the disc, the disc guy I wash right away. Yeah. And I, sorry, I got distracted with the hand question. To answer your question about the technique,

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Speaker 3
I think it’d be really cool to do like a whole switch back and forth, but I need to like rig a clip system to hold both ends of string for me, because as mentioned, we don’t have more than two hands. So I do have more ideas, but I have to either grow another arm or like have a suspension system with like clips to pull the string out.

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Speaker 1
So if you look into,

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Speaker 1
I think they’re called like helping hands for soldering. I don’t know if you ever saw that. Basically they’re, it’s a base and it’s got little arms with alligator clips that you, it’s meant to put wires on so you can put them together. Then you have your hands free to solder the joint.

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Speaker 3
Yeah.

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Speaker 1
So.

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Speaker 3
That’s what I need. Yeah. I was gonna look into that.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. So also good to note that

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Speaker 1
for leaving it in the better the heat, it’s kind of flexible. So whatever really works for your time schedule, because you could be precise like me and do two hours or you can forget about it and it still should be good.

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Speaker 3
Yeah, I think it’s still pretty cool. And it was maybe four hours after I put it in.

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Speaker 3
So.

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Speaker 3
Says Chris, but I’ve never seen it before.

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Speaker 1
Nice.

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Speaker 1
And while we were talking after we put the disc in the bed, you have a great idea, which I love. And that is I have a bunch of this yarn left. And what I’m gonna do is I’m gonna cut it up in some determinate lengths and this will be for sale limited edition, because I don’t know how long this will last on the Dyer’s Guild website. So you can try this exact method with this exact yarn on your own so you don’t have to buy the whole.

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Speaker 1
What is this bundle called technically in the yarn world?

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Speaker 3
We would call that a skein.

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Speaker 1
Skein?

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Speaker 3
Skein.

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Speaker 1
Skein. I don’t think, wow, interesting. Anyways, you’ll get this bundle of joy,

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Speaker 1
or won’t because I’ll be cutting it up, check it out on the Dyer’s Guild website.

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Speaker 1
And yeah, love to see what you guys create. And if you guys create anything using the yarn or this method, please take us. Because yeah, definitely would like to see. And I have a few other ideas that I wanna try. And again, if you even do this method with other things and experiment, definitely would love to see what you come up with for that.

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Speaker 3
Yeah, I think this is like a branch of the creative dyeing world. I think there’s still some stuff we could find. Yeah, go. Some more things to drag and dip.

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Speaker 1
So again, I appreciate you trying this method because again, I don’t think I’ve seen anybody try this before and it’s always fun and exciting to see other people experiment with different techniques. And for the audience, go check out her Instagram for some more inspiration, give her her like and a follow.

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Speaker 1
What is your Instagram?

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Speaker 3
It is wide-eyed, so W-I-E and then dyed.

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Speaker 1
There you go. So go give her a follow and a like and all that good, happy stuff. But thank you again very much for teaching me how to do this, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1
I hope you had fun doing this as well, teaching me. And yeah.

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Speaker 3
Yeah, this was great.

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Speaker 3
Thanks for your help getting me set up. And yeah, this was so much fun. Thank you for the opportunity.

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Speaker 1
Absolutely. All right guys, until next time, find your line, graph your piece, bye.

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Speaker 1
Bye.

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