Pretty huh?
It took me a bit to get to this though. Last weekend the real goal of the girl trip Sciarrino and I took out to the country was not vintage finds, but stocking up on dying supplies for the dye-o-rama swap I’m in at Woodland Woolworks. I got two each of yellow, blue, and red because I’m hard core like that and don’t want to be conned into buying green when I can mix it. I did also get a pink, because when you are working with liquids and can’t add white it’s hard to get just the right color of it, and my secret pal really likes it. Anyway. So I read up on it all and decided doing it down here in the desert would be easy, it’s warm everything would dry fast, etc. So first I needed to fashion a warp board, to put the wet yarn on and separate it out into stripes. My dad came up with this idea:
A section of a door with golf tees. So super ghetto but I was all over it because I didn’t have to buy anything to make it. I enlisted a little help from my sister (and doesn’t she look happy about it?)
Actually she was a happy helper, this scowl might be because Brent was taking a picture of her not quite dolled up to her liking. On to the mixing of the dye.
This was super messy. The water bottles worked alright, but I think in the future I would definitely want to mix in glass jars because they melted a bit, and got a little wonky. I boiled water and then put the powder dye into the bottle before pouring the hot liquid in. I didn’t take any picture of the next part, but basically I spread out the yarn and put each section over it’s own piece of plastic wrap. After I dyed the yarn I wrapped it up in the plastic and then heated it up. The first time I did it on the stove. I got a broiler thing and filled the bottom with a little bit of water put a grate down and put the yarn on top of that then brought it to a slow simmer. The next day I tried just putting it in a plastic Tupperware type container and setting it out in the sun. It worked just as well, in fact I think better.
And check it out knitted up. I call it Indian Wedding. What do you think?
I want to keep it for me! But just in case another batch doesn’t turn out so great I’m not taking any chances. Were heading out. To the outlet malls and then the airport. See you on the rainy side.
when i was checking out your blog, i noticed, 0 comments!??!! how is that possible!? your yarn is soo cool looking. the first picture of it at the top of the page looks like you just bought it like that! Nice work!
Fabulous! I love the color combination! But isn’t Palm Desert for lying in the sun and relaxing… Looks like a lot of work to me!
wow…you dyed that yarn?!
looks fab!!!
I want some socks!!! 🙂
wow cool! that looks great amber! you are way more ambitious than me girl, lol! good for you! very cool stuff though!
So why did I order from Colinette for you?!? Yours is just as good. xxx
Gorgeous colorway…nice job there! 🙂
it looks terrific! i am so impressed how you made use of things around the house to create your board, too – clever girl!
Your yarn is really beautiful and I like the name – fits it perfectly!
It’s absolutely beautiful!
Beautiful colors!!!!! Your dye pal will be so lucky to get it 🙂