This was just practice, but I like it May 24, 2006
A while ago (weekend before last?) I dyed some sock yarn to practice up for Dye-o-rama. I wanted to practice not getting colors to run together, but still dyeing them in the crockpot. It is amazing to me how much the colors stay put. I put half of the yarn in, added some brown dye. then i added the rest of the yarn and poured on the pink. It turned out pretty good! Some of the pink was above the water line in the pot. This wasn’t good. any extra dye in the water seemed to concentrate at this leve, so i got a lot of brown in the pink, but only right at the waterline. interesting…..
And recently I made a few dye-o-rama stitch markers. they will look so cute when i am knitting up my dye-o-rama yarn! (I also stuck a few in my shop).
Oh my. That is lovely!! The colors are perfect. I’m scared of making a huge mess.
Karrie could you please email me? I have a couple of questions about crock pot dyeing. Thanks! (you can get my email through my blog) http://www.ayenforyarn.blogspot.com
Very cute! That practice skein is really nice.
That yarn is gorgeous, you must be super-chuffed that your ‘practice’ went so well!
You rock. Have I mentioned this lately? Your new blog is de-lovely, and you’re knitting/spinning/ crafting up a storm. I need you to come to Anchorage and get me off my non-crafting a**. Thank you for your consideration. CM
p.s. All of which is to say that your “practice skein” is beautiful.