Dyeing to Spin & Knit: Techniques & Tips to Make Custom Hand-Dyed Yarns

This is one of the best dye books I've read! It goes beyond nuts and bolts techniques and delves into the artistry of dyeing, talking about optic color blending and how color works on fibers. If you are completely new to dyeing, I suggest "Hand Dyeing Yarn and Fleece" by Gail Callahan  Hand Dyeing Yarn and Fleece: Custom-Color Your Favorite Fibers with Dip-Dyeing, Hand-Painting, Tie-Dyeing, and Other Creative Techniques  as your first purely instructional book, but then buy this book to learn how to be a true dye artist! This book belongs in every dyer's library!

This is the most understandable book on dying fiber that I've had. Not only does she explain keeping track of what dye/ratio etc but how to make it easy to reproduce colors and saturations for future sessions. I liked the safety discussion and how to keep from breathing in dye particles which can create havoc in the human body--on the bright side once they are dissolved in water there is no more danger than accidental coloring hands, nails, and other things.

Very good book for home dyeing I have many books and this is one of my favorites. However, I believe it is missing the exact measurements for the amount of citric acid. It does mention about the weight of goods, but what is the amount for the citric acid Is it 1 tsp, or 5 tsp? Difficult to say. The measurements for the dye is very specific, but the citric acid amount is missing. Also, on page 102 , the text mentions "skeins" there are no pictures of skeins, so it is impossible to see the colorways that are referenced There are many pictures for home spun yarn also, As a home dyer, this book, along with a few others, is a must.

Felica Lo is a talented Dyer and Fiber Artist. In this book she shares the foundations and basics of her dyeing and color knowledge. Physically it is a beautiful book with great photography. It contains a large amount of information and is very comprehensive. As a beginner dyer I feel like it has enough information to help me get started and go beyond. In addition to dyeing it has a chapter on spinning color and a chapter on knitting color. The last 30 or so pages are lovely knitting patterns. Definitely a fabulous book!

The information on dyeing is great, but a lot of it is dedicated to fiber (not spun yarn) and there are too many knitting patterns in the back, though they are nice patterns. I think it's a great resource for a beginning dyer.

I’m not a knitter. But knowing what an excellent teacher she is I knew I would get a lot of value from this book regarding dying fiber and yarns.I was not disappointed in the least!

The book covers the basics, and has some patterns. The information is not really very in depth, so am searching further for what I really need to know to successfully hand dye yarns. I find that the Dharma website has just about as much info (maybe more) on the technical aspects of various dyes as this book covers. Finding specific information is challenging as the index is mis-paged.

I think this was money well spent!I like how it has photos of how dyes take on various fibers, from combed top to yarn; how dye techniques affect the final product made with the dyed yarn or fiber; and how to handle mistakes. There are a lot of things covered in an understandable way.

It’s a nice book but I was rather disappointed. I feel it should be titled Drafting to spin and Dyeing to knit as the chapter on spinning only dealt with pre-dyed roving (which I have learned about from other sources). It rarely even shows these braids opened out so we can see how they were dyed. As someone who starts from raw fleece and is lacking in confidence putting colours together, I was hoping for inspiration on dyeing then spinning my fibre in different ways/colours to produce different effects. I also suspect some of the photos are mislabelled left and right.

Lots of tips and ideas, however this really is aimed at wool fibres and only very briefly touches on plant fibres etc such as cotton. This is important if like me you want to dye a variety of materials and are a beginner in the preparation and mordanting of dyes.Still, very good reference for application techniques.

I have a growing collection of dyeing books and this is the best. It covers the basics and provides some advanced tips which I have now incorporated in my dyeing experiments. Highly recommended

Looks good, not read throughly yet.

quite a helpful book