dye

i've been experimenting with dying yarn. for a beginner the best way to try it out is with good ole kool-aid. i don't want to invest a ton of money into it because my knitting skills aren't all that great, so i decided to just stick with basic wool yarn from joann's. This is the second time i've dyed, but the first time i only used 3 colors. (that yarn is just about finished being made into a pair of longies for natalie.) this time around it turned out a bit browner than i had intended, but not bad for a first try with so many colors. so here's what i did:

first i dissolved the kool-aid in about a half cup of water



then i took my yarn that i had wound into one huge loop and soaked it in a bowl of water to get it nice and wet. then i laid it out on top of my workspace



and since vegetarians don't normally own a turkey baster, i had to get creative. i used the snot sucker that the hospital sent home with us when natalie was born and i sucked up the "dye" and just went to town



very carefully i transferred the yarn into a microwave safe dish.



i nuked it for 2 minutes, let it rest for about 5, nuked it again for 3 minutes and let it cool for a good long time. then i rinsed it off and now it's hanging to dry.

it pretty much looks the same as it does in the above photos. but i'm pretty excited to see how it will knit up.