Posts filed under 'Dyeing'
My yarn and socks are rinsed and dried. I’m very happy with the results!
I used Jacquard Acid Dyes in Kelly Green and Chartreuse.
The natural heathering makes the dye job heathered.
I’ll be using these for a fiber art piece. I’m making a Green Man and will be knitting a ton of green leaves.
I’m working on the background now and will post pics soon.
Here’s the original natural gray for comparison:
Awhile back Thebes bought several pairs of kilt hose. One pair ended up being too small so he gave them to me. They’re a wool, angora, nylon mix. But they were white. I’m clutzy and avoid white clothing because I just end up staining it.
I put them into Laura’s purple dye pot.
They turned out pretty cool. One of the fibers must have resisted the dye or reacted to the dye differently.
These socks are toasty warm too.
While doing the photo shoot Sieben came over with his toy bunny. How can I resist such cuteness?
November 10th, 2009
Recently Laura and I got together for a dye day. It was so fun! I brought my gray heathered yarn and some commercial socks to dye. She had yarn and roving to kettle dye and handpaint.
Laura gets ready to mix up dye:
Here’s me filling up a pot for kettle dyeing:
Presoaking the fiber:
We both used Jacquard Acid Dyes. This is Chartreuse.
Laura dyed silk roving and Knit Picks bare yarn. My white socks are in here too.
I brought Sieben along for a doggie play day. He was SO excited to play with her dogs Bobo and Didi.
Our dye prep area:
Here’s Laura handpainting some mohair roving:
Our friend Meredith had suggested dyeing darker colored yarn. I decided to try it with my gray yarn. Here’s the Chartreuse:
From the left-my socks, Laura’s bare yarn and silk roving.
From the left-her handpainted mohair roving and bare yarn.
I split my yarn into two batches. I’m dyeing the second batch in Kelly Green.
Her metal grid table worked great for laying out the wet yarn.
We learned some things that day. We ended up using too much water and too much dye while kettle dyeing. For the Kelly Green I used less water but forgot to use less dye. Laura liked the way her handpainted roving turned out but didn’t like the look of the handpainted bare yarn.
We also forgot to rinse out our fiber. The smell of vinegar was pretty strong! I rinsed out mine yesterday. More pics in the next post.
The weather was wonderful for a dye day. Sunny, warm, no wind-a wonderful fall day. We had such a good time and will definitely do it again!
November 9th, 2009
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.
July 11th, 2008
