Name: Dye Day at Peak District Yarns
Start: 2026-07-19T10:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-07-19T16:30:00+01:00
Location: Commercial Road, SK17 8NU Tideswell, United Kingdom

New for 2026, come and spend a day as a dyer at the Peak District Yarns Studio. This very flexible (and occasionally chaotic!) day will allow you to turn your dyeing ideas into beautiful hand-dyed yarn.
We start the day with some colour-mixing exercises to allow you to explore the dye shades you might want to use in your main project. Then, under the watchful eye of the tutors, you prepare your chosen yarn, choose your dyeing method and have fun dyeing your yarn. Your yarn choices will be chosen in advance so we can make sure there is enough of your chosen yarn in stock for you to dye, and you will also have the option to join a Whatsapp group with fellow participants to share your project ideas before and after the workshop (we *love* seeing finished items!)
The yarn you dye on a Dye Day is not included in the website price of the Dye Day workshop – you pay on the day of the workshop for the skeins you dye at the workshop. The price per skein ranges from £13 (e.g., a 100g skein of merino/nylon sock yarn) to £20 (e.g., a 115g skein of luxury silk, merino, alpaca 4-ply). You will find a menu of available yarn options on the workshop listing on the PDY website, and Carrie will contact you after you have booked to discuss what you would like to dye.
Here are examples of dye techniques you could choose. There’s usually sufficient time to choose two dyeing projects:
- Hand paint a skein for a pair of socks, and maybe a contrast mini skein to go with it
- Create a mini skein set
- Create a fade set (mini skeins or full skeins)
- Create up to eight skeins of semi-solid yarn
- Dye a sock blank
- If you don’t have a specific idea for a project to dye the yarn for, then no problem. You can still have a fab day in the Dye Studio! The default option is to have fun dyeing a set of 5 mini skeins and hand-painting a skein of yarn.
Maximum 5 participants per workshop. As all participants may choose a completely different dyeing technique to do on their Dye Day, you are encouraged to learn from the activities of fellow participants…..particularly if there is a queue for any of the dyeing equipment during the day!
This is an intermediate-level workshop, and the basics of yarn dyeing are not covered in this workshop. If you are a complete beginner, we ask that you attend the Introduction to Yarn Dyeing workshop before attending this one.