Curl Up and Dye

My camera was on hiatus...and umm, I decided not to blog without photos.  Lazy, eh?

So finally the saga of learning how to dye yarn.  I started with great yarn, a soft superwash Kona in dk weight.  I bought ummm 40 packs of Kool Aid and got this:

and I had fun with it.  May overdye it to get more color saturation.

Then I got brave and found some Wilton's cake icing gel dye to get the blues and greens that my swap pal wanted.  It was fun and super and labor intensive.  I did not have those nice giant mason jars that everyone had so I used my ghetto version--the Ziplock bag!

It came out nice, and I was scared to go too dark as I read there could be weird dye separation.  I hung it up to dry.

Then it was the neverending re-winding of the yarn to get the pretty skein.

Voila!

and then was the fun part of wrapping it up and including some extras like a Japanese themed fabric fat quarter for my swap pal.  She's a quilter apparently.  Also, some sparkly pink lip gloss for her daughter.

And finally, the dyed yarn I received from my dye pal Lynette:

Comments

[Becca]

Nice dye job! And Ziploc bags are the best. I should buy stock in that company.

[Elspeth]

What gorgeous yarn! It looks great!