I dyed some yarn in red and pink for project spectrum.
I dyed some more last night. I’ll get some pics when I get home and see if I can put together a little tutorial on the frame I made to measure the yarn out with the stripes (pictured in the post below). It’s really easy and once you’ve made it measuring yarn for any stripe sequence is simple. It’s also highly addictive, I started this project as something to do with the random sock weight natural wool in my stash. I’ve used all that, some blue and tonight I’m ordering some superwash merino in cones.
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Wonderful colors! What did you use to dye? That’s not kool-aid is it ;-)
it’s just food colouring. Nothing too fancy, but I did use an entire bottle on that one skein. I didn’t exactly intend it to be so dark but the yarn was really wet to it bled lots. I love it anyway, but the ones I did yesterday are much neater. The colour is even more intense than in the pictures – it over saturates the camera. I got some more colours today from a fancy cake decorating shop, but I have to clean my flat tonight before I can play with it.
ooooh, that turned out pretty! I love the striping.
I wondered if that was what you were doing :)
I’ve been thinking abour it myself. I worry I could get seriously addicted though
I am going to rig one of those wool contraptions up and try that. As a red FANATIC I desire wool like that. Where do you buy your wool on cones?
i ordered it from http://www.texere.co.uk – I haven’t ordered from them before, but they seem reliable. They sell lots of interesting yarn and fibres for dyeing. They also have dyeing kits but food colouring seems cheaper and has more colours, but if you’re interested in dyeing plant fibres they have procion dye kits.
Thanks very much. I have the texere website as one of my favourites but never tried them. I’m going to get my DIY freak boyfriend to make me a rack. Here’s hoping!