Dye, yarn, dye! (part 3)
Another dyeing session - this time venturing into handpainting. There’s an extremely useful tutorial at All Buttoned Up - go check it out. I had a few skeins of the Knitpicks dye-your-own yarn that we used - I must say, the superwash sock yarn was pretty damn soft. Softer than the 100% wool laceweight. Amy snapped up the laceweight and dyed it the same peacock color as last time, and was happy (no photos, though).
I’m calling this colorway Punched in the Eye. As soon as I mentioned that on Thursday, everyone started reminiscing about bruises. Great. I used a mix of red and dark blue dyes, and it turned out much darker than I intended. Water down the dyes a bit next time, Kelly. I also dyed another skien using the leftover dye from Amy’s peacock color, which is absolutely impossible photograph accurately.
Mo also joined us, and it her yarn turned out AWESOME. The colors looked crazy bright when she first dyed it, but the reds spread out and darkened/toned everything down. And look at how happy she looks at the results!
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I’ve always wanted to try dyeing, but I’m chicken. Can I come dye with you guys someday? Maybe then I’ll be able to overcome my fear of the dye.
I think the purpley blue yarn is pretty! I’ll be interested to see how it knits up.
Those came out beautiful! I love how the colors meld into each other!
[…] Yay, Socktoberfest! I don’t (yet) have any size 0 needles for my Yarn Pirate yarn, so I’ve started knitting the hand-dyed Punched in the Eye yarn. It looks much less bruise-like once knitted up - my camera really wants to accentuate the crazy reds and blues in the skein, but it looks much more monochromatic in real life. And as always, yarn enjoys a tasty Flat Tire. […]