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Naturally Dye your Textiles PINK at Home with Avocados

Myra Made Color

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Let's make a pink natural dye using avocado pits! This is a fantastic kitchen scrap dye. Kitchen scrap dyes are my favorite plant dyes. Dye your own yarn at home with something you'd otherwise toss in the compost. This dye process takes a little time and patience, but the natural color is worth it.

*I forgot to mention in the video:*
I'm using wool that was first mordanted with alum. Alum helps set the dye and brightens the color.

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20 Comments

@amara8037 5 years ago

This is hands down the best avocado dye video I've seen so far. Absolutely the most gorgeous shade of pink ever.

@anyaoberkirsch7015 3 years ago

Came for the avocado pit dye, stayed for the D&D reference

@karismillsmusic 10 months ago

It was the 4 day bit that I had been missing. Thank you!

@ragdollyally 1 year ago

If you used a nylon paint bag, you could lift the avocado pieces out of the dye bath so they don’t all get stuck in the wool.

@jae4ze 6 years ago

Okay so she dyes things and she likes DND. I'm in.

@nancyskinner5207 5 years ago

I have dyed with the pits and skins. The first time I got brownish pink. Now I can get a beautiful dusty pink. The ph information is new to me. Thank you. Now I’m going to have to make guacamole a staple again. (I did start out drying pits and skins. Might be why I got brown tones; but with the correct ph you could still get pink. Like you say try it and see what happens. I love over dying for the skins that don’t turn out to my liking. Just found your channel. Saw the one with your mom and the mushroom dye bath. Wonderful video!

@matthewyescas8790 5 years ago

im so happy I found your channel. your videos are amazing. hard to come across content like yours on YouTube. thanks a lot for these videos

@miekeberben2424 1 year ago

Thank you very much. Now I discovered finaly how to use avocados for dying textiles. I was looking for a way to boil and dye eggs a few days before Easter. Turmeric is a good option, but avocados are not (so I find out). I searched for help on youtube and found your useful information on dyeing fabrics with avocado.

@xdaiart 2 years ago

Great explanation! Thanks

@rachaelreichmann8805 5 years ago

Thank you so much for making this video and all your other great videos on natural dyeing. For my first ever dyeing project, I started my avocado pit dye bath on Friday and just now (Tuesday) put my yarn into the dye bath. Your videos helped me easily figure out the scouring and mordant processes! This would definitely not have gone as smoothly had I not had your videos. Thanks again!

@chingachgook9718 1 year ago

🌠Go figure! Here we are on the cusp of the Orange Guy's tariffs, and my local supermqrket had avocados @ 3/1$! So I'm on an avocado diet this week, qand freezing everything. Wool has been mordanted so long that it's well-aged. Thanks for posting this; I had forgotten about the pH.🌠

@pointegirl3 6 years ago

Thank you for teaching us!

@bankerborsch 4 years ago

Worked well Myra, great instructions. Take care.

@yaoseesthepath 5 years ago

Really helpful! Thanks a lot

@lidynooij3429 5 years ago

Thank you so much for your inspiration 💕

@laraluizasantiagotelles498 6 years ago

Amazing video! I think it was the best explained one! Thank you for sharing!

@ninalerm4980 6 years ago

Thank you!!

@ypplic 4 years ago

Funny thing is I ended up on your channel searching for information on textiles for the D&D campaign I'm currently writing! Next in-person session I'll be sure to bring a bowl of guacamole in your honour 😁

@sonjanordahl3158 4 years ago

Thanks for the videos. And THREE CHEERS FOR RPGs.

@dogsinolga 6 years ago

You are fun to watch so thanks! I have a cupboard* full of dry pits that I have been saving up for a class I plan to teach in April. So I really enjoyed the addition of the 4-Day method. I have planned for a 2 day workshop so I will get things started a few days earlier. Again, I love your style. And I am going to start a test of the 4-Day heat and reheat method today. ~Marie P.S. The music was too loud. *O.K. not full, but lots and lots.