Life Sept 6-12, 2025

Life of a Yarn Dyer

Join me this week for a look Behind the Skeins and into the daily life of a yarn dyer. We are prepping, dying, and pressing. It is full speed ahead to kick start the holidays. Let's take a look!

I absolutely love when I get to take the colors off the wall and work on some color planning!

🚘Car Confessions:

Dave and I are out and about to get a whole bunch of chores done today. We are deep in the middle of dying and packing the Halloween Countdown boxes that y'all went insane buying, thank y'all so much, I love it! Dave took the week off of his job to help me and I can not be more appreciative. He says he is being "held hostage" 💖 😂

We are printing and cutting transfers for notion pouches. It's surprising how much hands on work goes into making each one.

We even managed to take a little time out of our busy week to have a sit down family dinner.

But then it was right back to work. Look at all this yarn in our storage unit that needs to be prepped and dyed for Halloween! Sometimes the life of a yarn dyer is not all rainbows, sometimes it industrial storage units 😂.

We are prepping dyes for Tyler to come in and dye yarn tonight. Dave and I have been dying rounds all day, but Tyler will start working on more rounds tonight. We are preparing the dye for him so that it all has the same measurements and all the yarn looks the same in the end. Here is the point that Dave proclaims "I'm doing chemistry!". 

While he is having fun with his work, Dave will be the first to tell you there is a lot to yarn dying. In his own words, "It is definitely more art than science, although it's surprising how much science is in it. It's all in the black box of the dyes that you use, right? They are already made for you, but there is so much intricacy to the techniques that you have to use in order to get it to adhere correctly to the fibers. How much heat, how much acid, how much water are you putting in, how long do you let it soak. And there is soaking in water and acid before in goes into the pot with the dye."

It is so much more than just yarn and color and we love being able to do all of this so you can knit and crochet. While we are in the dye studio working hard please share what you are making with the yarn via email or #southernskeins on social media platforms. 

Thanks for joining me this week while I show you some behind the scenes of what it is like here at Southern Skeins. 

Happy making friends 🧶✨

-Jenna 💖

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