Last month Abbey and I dyed a bunch of yarn for the first time. We used dyes from Knit Picks and Kool-Aid.

We pre-soaked and rinsed the yarn in buckets.

Most of the yarn was dyed in pots on the stove.

But we handpainted a skein of sock yarn each. Here’s Abbey painting hers:

And here’s my skein pre-steaming:

The colors turned out wonderful! The yarns below are kettle dyed. The little pink skein on the right is my handspun.

The handpainted yarn turned out stunning. Here’s my skein:

Abbey and I are going to do a sock knitalong with our skeins.

I spun up my pink handspun with the red skein. The little bit of pink leftover yarn I just plied onto itself. I gave these two skeins to Abbey as a gift.

We had such a fun time dyeing yarn and will definitely be doing this again.