Curiosity (and my love of how wonderful this sock yarn feels) got the better of me today. Fireworks was in a ball, sitting right there, waiting patiently for re-skeining… I just had to swatch it. It was too much to resist. To tell the truth, I was worried at first - I cast on for [...]
I love to dye yarn. I hate to untangle yarn. But you know what? Invariably, the dyeing of yarn is followed by at least one hour of untangling yarn. I could avoid most of it by simply being very, very, very careful with the yarn when dyeing it. But as most dyers know, to really [...]
You would think that the most time consuming part of hand dyeing yarn would be dyeing the yarn. Mixing and applying the dye to aforementioned yarn, in theory should take a good chunk of time, and for me it does. But the amount of time spent actually dyeing the yarn pales in comparison to the [...]
I’ve been struggling to find an efficient way to dye lots of yarn at the same time. My biggest issues? Having to mix dye too often, and not having enough containers for all the colors. The yarn was also getting tangled while dyeing… and I needed a space efficient way to dry the yarn so [...]
Notes From The Dye Pot, June 10th, 2007 - Notes from working with Procion dyes, soda ash soak method and the colors cerulean, plum and golden yellow. Includes pictures of final results.