How to turn a cone into multiple skeins for dyeing

In this case, my goal was also two-fold. For the weaving project, I wanted to keep some of the grey starting colour but I also wanted to make three additional colours. So total: four skeins. I decided to make them all equal is size which makes the later mordant and dye calculations so much easier and means I don’t need to track each specific skeins through the individual dyeing process.

Aside: I also knew I wanted to set myself the challenge of dyeing three different colours using only onion skins. See the Onion Skin Glory post for the results.

There we go! The advantage of creating equal skeins is that you don’t have to keep track of the weights of individual skeins as you move forward with the dyeing. You know the weight of each, which tells you the weight of each mordant to use and the dyes as well. Dyeing rations are all based on the amount of fiber you’re using. Maybe a topic for a future blog post.