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The Preschooler Can Paint Yarn

April 04, 2023 3 Comments

Liam Paints 5/2 Tencel™ yarn skeins in mom's studio

My 4-year-old, William (we call Liam) is in love with color. His favorite color is most consistently green, but at the end of the day he really loves a rainbow. Rainbow is his name for his baby brother. He'll tell any stranger in a parking lot he has a baby brother named Rainbow. He gave his baby brother this name before he was born and insists that is his name to this day. And so it is (though most still call him Landon).

Sometime last year Liam took interest in what I was up to in the studio. I always have some yarn that is incorrectly measured. I used to set it aside and think it would find some use for sampling. So last summer when Liam said he wanted to paint yarn, I had a nice stash of undyed yarn waiting for him.

The dyes I mix don't last forever, and become a bit less predictable with age. There's always some jars of old leftover dyes I will use from time to time on skeins where predictability is less important. So when I began experimenting with letting the then 3-year-old paint yarn, I'd mix some colors in bottles for him and let him go to town.

And go to town he would. He likes to flood the yarn until it's a veritable color puddle. He uses brayers. He uses foam brushes. Foam rollers. Paint brushes (where did paint brushes even COME from?). Until, at last...he's done and it's time to raid mom's studio snacks.

At the point of completion...who knows what it is. He's told me his yarn colors are called "Butterfly" and "Dog" and "Unicorn" and...some other color names I've forgotten. And you know what? It's always beautiful. And I don't mean it's-always-beautiful-to-mom beautiful. I mean, it's quite lovely!

One of my favorite parts of dyeing yarn is you can't really make it ugly. Especially the Tencel™, I think it might be physically impossible to make it ugly. He's had good luck with the Ringspun Cotton too. I let Liam dye some of the cotton and actually put it in my shop! (According to the review, Liam's yarn is destined to be woven into towels, which just tickles me pink!) I don't usually sell his yarn. I want to use it in weaving projects eventually, but my "Liam Hand-Painted Yarn Collection" is growing quite large. I expect it will continue to do so, as he's been asking me if it's time to paint yarn again. I'll have to remember to restock the studio snacks.

Liam dressed for painting yarn
Safety first! I finally found some kid gloves for him so they're not quite as ridiculouly oversized as these are.
Liam paints 5/2 Tencel yarn - he calls this one "Butterfly"
This one he calls "Butterfly"
Liam paints 5/2 Tencel yarn - he calls this one "Dog"
This one is called "Dog"
Liam paints 5/2 Tencel yarn - he calls this one "Unicorn"
This one is called "Unicorn" (but looks suspiciously like leftover Mystic Wisteria...)
 Liam paints 5/2 Tencel yarn - an earthy colored warp
Liam paints 5/2 Tencel yarn - green-grey skeins
Liam paints 5/2 Tencel yarn - turquoise skeins


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Erin McAdam
Erin McAdam

April 04, 2023

Liam is doing a wonderful thing creating these lovely warps and skeins, I love them 😍 please share with Liam just how fabulous his works of art are! You might think of posting his artwork for sale and start a college fund for him. I’d purchase some!

Marsha Lodge
Marsha Lodge

April 04, 2023

So fun! My granddaughters, 4,5 and 7 have been learning and using my loom. I bought a table top Dorothy in case I don’t want them on a certain project. I live that they are interested.

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Hi Donna!
Thank you for your honest review. I'm sorry to hear the Black Tencel™ didn't work out for you! Truly dark black is a difficult color to acheive, so I send my undyed yarn out to have it commercially dyed. It's the same yarn I use in all my dyeing, but to get it such a deep black color, the process does seem to change the characteristics of the yarn a little. Winding the finished yarn onto a cone, rather than hanging to dry and straightening/fluffing like I do, flattens the yarn and prevents the twist from...blooming you could call it? The company that dyes my yarn black wash it many times, and do a great job making the yarn bleed little to no color. I've woven with it and it seems to have a good hand and appearance after washing finished projects, perhaps slightly less lustrous. I will be happy to arrange a return if the yarn isn't the right quality for you!

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